in 1914 it was the Chancellor who encouraged him to continue with his cruise to get him out of the way of the plot to start a preventive war with Serbia and Russia.
As the adage went, "America's foreign policy is to speak softly and carry a big stick. Germany's foreign policy is to shout loudly and carry a machine gun."
(Vaguely translated directly from Germany from memory) „Pardon will not be granted; Prisoners will not be made; As the Huns did 1000 Years ago under their king ezel made a name for themselves, as will the name ‚german‘ sound in china in a way, that no Chinese will ever (again) dare to even just stare at a German“ ~Kaiser Wilhelm II -as a German myself even, excluding hitler obviously, probably the worst (historical) leader we ever had
I think his Boxer rebellion speech actually provoked more er... Interest in Britain. It was responsible for the WW1 era slur of Germans as 'Huns' which is still pretty well known in Britain to this day. I think though in material terms the Agadir crisis was the real turning pount in Anglo-German relations.
As a German, who chose history as one of his focuses in school as well as beeing very interested in hisostory, I must say: I've never heard of this crisis in my humble 25 years of existence. Somehow there is now continues legacy in Germany about this incident
Wow, die Schulqualität hat echt nachgelassen! Bei uns gehörte das wie die anderen Vorkrisen des I. Weltkriegs (Boxeraufstand, Krügerdepesche, Panthersprung, Krieg-in-Sicht-Krise, Zabernaffäre ...) zum Stoff der 10. Klasse. Das war 2002/2003 in NRW an einem kleinen Gymnasium auf dem Land. Tut mir echt leid für Euch Jüngere -- hoffentlich wird das irgendwann mal wieder besser!
He wasn't the perfect monarch, but he certainly tried his best. He did much good as well as bad. He loved norway, my country and when Ålesund burned in 1904 he helped pay for the rebuilding of the city, something he very much did not have to do. I think he was a flawed man but still a man who tried, and for that he has my respect.
A tragedy. If he’d continued Bismarck’s diplomatic system of alliance with Russia and Austria and good relations with Britain, and his father’s support for a parliamentary system of government, the world would have been quite different.
i went into this video expecting the typical (often deserved) Wilhelm II. bashing but came out learning the rather complex dynamic of the crown and politicians. I feel bad for him
Im actually on the Wilhelms side this time. The dude was tired of all the nonsence people were blabbing on about, honestly tried to correct it himself, and then just got trolled even harder because it wasnt politically expectent. Like cmon everyone git what he ment and what he wanted, but decided to look at it in the worst way possible. Its a "see how much i like you?! Like me back!!" Type of letter, but instead people decided to destroy him instead of taking him seriously, even if he wasnt 100%. This is why we cant have nice things.
- Actively shipping arms to Boer Republic, congratulating it's President on the victory against the British, lying for the fact that British victory was only caused by his leak of Boer Battle plans, yet still saying that German Empire have no il will against British Empire - literally saying that most German population are anglophobic, and that he is the minority that have favourable views towards it no, no one knew what he meant, especially since he worded his words like that, he lack subtlety at the very least, an idiot at worst
He might have made an honest attempt but he was just so fundamentally bad at his job that it didn't matter. Like sometimes you just need to learn when to keep your mouth shut. I mean it should be fairly obvious that if you're trying to improve relations with a country you try to compliment it and emphasize similarities, you do not go "look at all the things I've done for you how dare you not like me?", that's just one step short of calling them ungrateful brats.
There are volumes of reasons for the British to go after Wilhelm II. The Dreadnaught Race. Projecting the Atrocities that inflicted on the Boers on the Germans through the Heroero slaughter in German Southwest Africa and the issues are endless. Being Queen Elizabeths grandson just made relations uncomfortable. This is another great episode and I appreciate the thoroughness of a story that is well told. Thank You
_"Projecting the Atrocities that inflicted on the Boers on the Germans through the Heroero slaughter in German Southwest Africa and the issues are endless"_ Could you elaborate?
@@ochre379 basically the german empire commited the first genocide of the 20th century on the herero and namaqua which were 2 ethnic groups in german namibia who resisted german encroachment on their land
@@Pioneer_DE The Mayerling Incident refers to the events surrounding the apparent murder-su*cide pact of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover, Baroness Mary Vetsera, They were found dead at the Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889.
Yeah, I wouldn't say the guy who rewarded Carl Peters for his crimes and almost certainly personally ordered the Herero Genocide (and certainly supported and rewarded Lothar von Trotha) was a "well-meaning" guy.
Thanks for the video. What is intresting is that at this point the Kaisereich was just 37 years old ... so many living germans and english remembered a time when they still were part of prussia or Baveria or the many other german states. So i wonder if the realive youngess of the Kaisereich did have any influence on the perspective of the other countries or did most just view it as prussia in a new coat. After all that one had existed for far longer.
Of course, from the perspective of the established empires---perhaps save for Austria of waning glory---,a united Germany was a thing that just shouldn't exist on the already crammed world stage.
From young Childhood, it was written that he (Wilhelm) Played with Toy Battleship Boats in the Bathtub. A growing ambition to replace Britain on the High Sea.
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I wonder how much of wilhelms more erratic and bizarre statements and behavior was due to age or some sort of mental unwellness since as far as I know most if not all of these stories are from post 1900 or very late 1890s, I could be wrong and would be interested in knowing more about his early reign or how acted as crown prince and how much of a difference there is between then and the later end of his reign
I think he had the same issue as Tsar Nicholas in that he was a conservative who expected to be a monarch of the old type that actually did rule and had been raised with very traditional values that simply didn't prepare him for the reality of the (then) modern world. He then also had the further disadvantage of not ruling over a repressive state with a population of mostly uneducated serfs and instead ruled over a constitutional monarchy with free speech and a fairly well educated population. Like the British royal family had long since learned that they should try to stay out of politics and instead present themselves as some sort of national ideal that the middle class could identify with and strive for, and other European royal families took note or learned the lesson themselves and that's probably why they're still around.
@@hedgehog3180 Also keep in mind what his mother did to him during his childhood. As incompetent als he was, it was probably for the better that William came to the throne to rule Germany through 26 years of its greatest prosperity instead of his father under the influence of that narcissistic woman.
Videos are amazing. I thought for a moment that this was about the Telegraph Crisis of WW2. As a proud drounk dane, I have to ask, is thst a possible future video?
Could you please make a video on Einkreisungstheorie? Since it was Wilhelm´s fault for the state of German international affairs, it would be interesting to learn about the actual architects behind it.
The foreign policy of Wilhelm II was slightly erratic. His childhood was terrible. He should have kept Bismarck and focus on pre-written and approved speeches.
You should make a video about the freicorps I’ve seen many people discussing them on the internet as of late and many of them (mostly right wing or anti communists) praising them and just as many (mostly left wing and anti fascists) calling them basically just Nazis in a different time period, I think it would be both interesting and enlightening to get a German and German historical perspective on the subject
I sense that the war between Britain and Germany should’ve never happened, both were from the same blood and same culture so even by that it was wrong for them to go into war. I do remember tho someone stating that when Britain declared war on Germany, it was just buisness and nothing personal because the British policy lies within the balance of power. I honestly believe tho that Germany and Britain should’ve never went against each other.
Germany would have quickly crushed France, then defeated Russia. Ukraine would have been given independence and developed. No Communism, Fascism, WW2 and starvation and death camps. Surveys in the rest is history podcast show a majority saying England should have stayed neutral
If I were the Devil’s advocate supporting the White Man’s Burden… I’d encourage more conflict among the colonialist powers, but some politicians among them would’ve figured out the metamedia propaganda, and you are right, WWI might’ve been much different or avoided altogether
The Willy - Teddy Relationship. Copied from Social Media. - The uses of ‘friendship’. The ‘personal regime’ of Wilhelm II and Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
I truly truly appreciate that you took a more nuanced and fair stance on Kaiser Wilhelm II, most people simply take the word of writers of the time that throw him under the bus when he did everything he could to do right by his country and people.
Seems a bit hard to conclude that he genuinely tried to do what was best for the German people considering everything he did do. Seems more like he was often out of his depth and stuck in the past rather than being directly malevolent.
If the current eldest child succession rules of the British Crown were applied he would have been King of Britain and Germany. His mother was the eldest child of Queen Victoria
Had Queen Victoria's eldest daughter been the heir to the British throne she probably would not have married Frederick of Prussia as I don't think either Bismarck or the British government would have welcomed a possible future personal union between the UK and Prussia/Germany. The British hadn't been too keen on the earlier one with Hanover and later made sure that there wasn't one with the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
@theotherohlourdespadua1131 the Salic law of succession ie: no females had always applied in the Brunswick-Luneberg duchies and later the Kingdom of Hanover
No surprise about your second sentence. That is exactly what Alfred Mahan said in his very influential book about the history of Navies that defined the Pre-WW1 world. That book and its ideas influenced a lot of navies, including the Germans. Alfred Von Tirpitz, grand admiral and Minister of the navy during the Arms race, was very much influenced by Mahan and tried to replicate Royal Navy successes...
@@thulfred only 144,000 people are part of the elect according to revelation. I doubt this random German is part of that. And like all men he was damned from the womb.
The death's head hat say's it all He hated Britain due to his English doctor, and the reality of hostility from Edward VII & George. The British economy had already fallen behind the German Empire, and with Danish wife Bertie he and his son George loathed the Prussians. The first world war ended the British Empire, and turned the leading creditor into the leading debtor nation , and the unwinding of overseas territories over the next 40 years. Kaiser was just thick and provided the backdrop to the Military Dictatorship vive l'entente cordial
That’s complete bullshit. The deaths head is from the Hussars and they wore a skull because of their especially dangerous tasks in warfare. British hussars also have a skull as their symbol you maggot.
Hey Sir Manatee out of curiosity do you know that much info on the Zimmerman Telegram and Germany's 19th and early 20th century's relationship with Mexico?
I believe a great deal of fault laid in the German Constitution which really didn't place the Chancellor as a people appointed position rather than just a tool of the Kaiser
Bismarck wanted that way because he actually ruled the first Wilhelm..then he ran into the second everything went left. You're right though, they should've gone full parliamentary at that point but..
No, that was the edited version the government put out to cover Wilhelm's ass. The actual version very clearly stated: _“Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! _*_Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited."_*
For an accurate read of Germany's intentions, they needed only read Friedrich von Bernhardi's 1911 bestseller, _Germany and the Next War._ Germans really just don't know when to keep quiet sometimes, and that's a good thing for posterity because it means there are some things they just can't censor, edit or hide after the war.
I most certainly *can* help myself from feeling sorry for Kaiser Wilhelm. he was a most prickly, inconsiderate, overbearing, bellicose and ultimately, pointless tyrant. such character traits might have gone down okay in the 12th or 13th century, but in the 20th? no.
One of the advantages of monarchies where monarchs still make foreign policy is supposed to be that, as cousins, they feel familial fraternity and can have a quiet word behind the scenes to prevent warfare. Unfortunately, too often familial jealousies make warfare on their behalf that much more likely.
Yes people realised that was nonsense a long time ago. Renaissance scholars like More and Erasmus wrote about how that never works. And just looking at one example, the French Court’s policy of marrying daughters of German Princely Families led directly to various wars as Loius XIV pressed inheritance claims from his relations’ wives.
What? How does this situation prove anything but the press inflaming tensions? If the monarchs had more real power and influence Wilhelm II's desire for better relations would have simply led to better relations.
@@ryankasch5561Historically, that's a myth. A lot of wars prior to 1814 started because of family (a dispute over land ownership or succession being the most common). Also, kings having more power so they can stop wars? If that were the case then all wars in ancient, classical, medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern, Enlightenment, etc would not happen...
- Actively shipping arms to Boer Republic, congratulating it's President on the victory against the British, lying for the fact that British victory was only caused by his leak of Boer Battle plans, yet still saying that German Empire have no il will against British Empire - literally saying that most German population are anglophobic, and that he is the minority that have favourable views towards it lol, and many Kaiserboos today that their Emperor was a genius
10:24 Having such a glorious moustache, who on Earth would not want to show it of? Who on Earth would listen to such shitty general as Semyon Budyonny if he hadn't had such a glorious moustache? :D Same with Wilhelm II, who would want to be lead by him if he hadn't had that moustache? :D
The German Empire was Europe's last chance to dominate the world in a fair way. It would've democrataicesd eventually, but our perception of democracy would've been different. Most people would've seen constitutional monarchism as the best way to put democracy in effect. Maybe militarism would've survived. Who knows?
he should have left it to the professional elites who are much better at propaganda, take my country 🇬🇧 for example, most people TRUST the bbc, TRUST the Politicians For Life System , entrenched power is something to look up to. We are an oligarchy and most people are blissfully ignorant
It’s pronounced boo-r with a long oo made in the front of your mouth and a hard rolling r. I normally wouldn’t nitpick, but it sounded like Wilhelm was chatting to boa constrictors in South Africa. Which might be kinda based actually
Why you didn't mention the previous (~1880-1910) immense germanophobic writing in the british Press? Yes, it came from fictional literature but influenced the common folks in general and also the printing presses writing. Take a look into that. Its astaunding!
Probably because he didn't want to mention Treitschke, Fritsch, Ratzel, Bernhardi or the host of other Anglophobic characters in Germany running their mouths off since 1871. It's very hard to mention the effect without the cause.
I mean was that really the cause or anything or just Tabloids being Tabloids? Sure Tabloids suck ass and cause a lot of problems but they're often a symptom just as much as a cause. Like the Daily Mail will still regularly write dumb shit about literally every other country in the world but the Daily Mail is also widely mocked in British society and is far from the only newspaper.
Yeah Alsace-Lorraine as a pop culture term was never properly used in this way, both Lorraine and Alsace are regions describing areas from both Germany and France even today
Hardly disagree with your conclusion. I don’t feel sorry at all for him. No one forced him to write this interview. He was clearly unfit to rule any empire
"Let's quickly take a look at Germany's diplomatic situation in the years leading up to the Daily Telegraph crisis." Aw, do we have to? It's depressing enough! Why can't that Hohenzollern learn to keep his trap shut?! Seriously though, hasn't there been some speculation that Willy may have had a form of ADHD?
If he had ADHD is hard to tell but he most likely had an inferiority complex because of his deformed arm if you look at his pictures you will always see that one of his arms is always hidden, as well as his borderline abusive mother and her quest to try and fix his arm with some really questionable medical treatments by a lot of doctors hired by his mother. It properly let to him trying to prove that he is worth something by always trying to get involved in politics.
Yeah he had his personal hatred for queen vicky as he blamed his arm on Britain… Even as a German I can say he was one of the worst leaders in terms of decision making (excluding hitler for clarification)
> Seriously though, hasn't there been some speculation that Willy may have had a form of ADHD? It would explain why after the 1912 war council he couldn't shut up about his plans to the Swiss ambassador.
Look up Carl Peters's activities in Tanzania, what the German government decided to do about it, and then what Kaiser Wilhelm decided to do about that.
It's funny that Wilhelm was sorta seen like American Republican Presidents today, like they say stupid shit but you shouldn't mind them because that's just what they're like. Usually it doesn't really do significant damage to diplomatic relations though Trump did manage to seriously damage American-European relations but he's quite the special case.
are we sure it was complete nonsense ? England often had the " Russian Strategy " just throw men an resources at an objective until you smother it..a look through Victoria's private correspondence might be in order..In WW1 if the German Army had listened to him (defensive position in the West and full on attack in the East) the war might have ended differently..
Say what you will about him, von Moltke was right. You just can't take one set of highly detailed plans and replace them on the fly with another one without everything going to pot. Besides, the Kaiser only said that because he was momentarily under the impression France would stay neutral; in the 1912 Imperial German war council, he was singing a rather different tune.
This kinda further reveals why this entire suggestion is stupid, there's no chance in hell that Victoria had any personal involvement in the Boer war. That was solely left up to colonial administrators and commanders. Victoria mostly stayed out of British politics and the direct management of the empire and was more of a figurehead that'd occasionally play a role in diplomacy or make some sort of good will gesture. She very much established the traditions that the British royal house would stick to and are the reason why they're still around.
It is hugely irresponsible of you to not mention that the Boer Republics were slave states and that the Dutch settlers' primary reason and motivation for maintaining independence from Britain was to keep the institution of enslavement of native Africans. That's arguably the singular reason they desired to maintain independence, as evidenced by the Dutch slaveholders' own words. I understand you only mention the Boer Republics briefly, but since their main purpose for formation was preserving slavery, even the briefest mention of them should include that fact. It's especially irresponsible for you to say that there was any reason other than preserving the instutition of slavery as to why the Dutch settlers desired independence. The British certainly weren't much better than the Boers in their treatment of native Africans, but it is horrendously academically dishonest to say the Dutch settlers' desire for independence was because of anything but slavery. It's as dishonest as saying the American civil war was not caused by slavery.
I didn't know Trump was itching to start a war with Mexico to take lebensraum, or that one of his staffers wrote _The United States and the Next War_ spelling out that position.
@@TiberentenTV do you mean wilhelm or wilhelm II because the later one was broken in so many ways that his mom was likely the least damaging women in his life. that would have been his grandmother queen victoria.
@@Irobert1115HD Of course I mean Wilhelm II, the guy from the video, whose mother did her thing quite thoroughly. Look her up: Not only did she hate Prussia and Germany as a whole, she also hated William for his botched arm, and boy did she make him feel it. I have absolutely no doubt about the fact that evil woman was the only reason he came out so flawed. With Queen Victoria, on the other hand, Wilhelm was on quite good terms. He even held her when she died. If that doesn't say something, I don't know what does.
@@TiberentenTV i quote the man himself: british doctors took my health and now they take my father. and yes the doctors that bothed the assistance at his birth where send by queen victoria.
Wilhelm ignoring a crisis by going in a vacation? Gee I hope that doesn't happen again
If he cancelled his vacation in 1914 it would have looked like he was planning something big
in 1914 it was the Chancellor who encouraged him to continue with his cruise to get him out of the way of the plot to start a preventive war with Serbia and Russia.
@@petergilbert72That's actually Rewritten Exaggerated Information Supported by Entente-Influenced Agenda which is Mostly False.
Reading those Wilhelm quotes is certainly something. Not the most subtle man ever...
Subtlety really wasn't his strength
Understatement of the century 😅
As the adage went, "America's foreign policy is to speak softly and carry a big stick. Germany's foreign policy is to shout loudly and carry a machine gun."
(Vaguely translated directly from Germany from memory)
„Pardon will not be granted;
Prisoners will not be made;
As the Huns did 1000 Years ago under their king ezel made a name for themselves, as will the name ‚german‘ sound in china in a way, that no Chinese will ever (again) dare to even just stare at a German“
~Kaiser Wilhelm II
-as a German myself even, excluding hitler obviously, probably the worst (historical) leader we ever had
Very insecure man.
"Kaiser Wilhelm II CANCELLED" "Telegraphgate"
It's a good thing Twitter wasn't invented yet
It's a sad thing that Twitter got invented in the first place
@@SirManateeeReal
@@SirManateee Haha, wow, yes.
How much of Imperial German politics is just stuff ending in the words "crisis" or "affair?"
about yes much.
also this is about the third emperor wilhelm II whos now considered the worst of the three by experts. the best one was his father friedrich III.
Tbh it seems like all pre ww1 European governments were the same; a la Dreyfus affair you’ve covered
@@Irobert1115HD _Despite_ being Emperor for only 99 days or _because_ of it?
@@SamAronow despite. he showed the most potential of the three.
I think his Boxer rebellion speech actually provoked more er... Interest in Britain. It was responsible for the WW1 era slur of Germans as 'Huns' which is still pretty well known in Britain to this day.
I think though in material terms the Agadir crisis was the real turning pount in Anglo-German relations.
Wilhelm II, the first victim of cancel culture.
Wilhelm II proved that the German stereotype of blunt honesty is well founded, bro ALWAYS had something to say💀
As a German, who chose history as one of his focuses in school as well as beeing very interested in hisostory, I must say:
I've never heard of this crisis in my humble 25 years of existence. Somehow there is now continues legacy in Germany about this incident
Really? I would have thought it would be one of the few things you actually learn about Wilhelm II.
@@2Links we dont learn anything about him
@@2Links we learn about the holocaust thats it. and a bit of the democratic revolutions in the 19th century
Wow, die Schulqualität hat echt nachgelassen! Bei uns gehörte das wie die anderen Vorkrisen des I. Weltkriegs (Boxeraufstand, Krügerdepesche, Panthersprung, Krieg-in-Sicht-Krise, Zabernaffäre ...) zum Stoff der 10. Klasse. Das war 2002/2003 in NRW an einem kleinen Gymnasium auf dem Land. Tut mir echt leid für Euch Jüngere -- hoffentlich wird das irgendwann mal wieder besser!
@@ocs10 ONLY the holocaust? The single most significant event in modern history? The education system these days smh
This story was mentioned in Dale Carnegie's masterpiece "How to Win Friends & Influence People"
He wasn't the perfect monarch, but he certainly tried his best. He did much good as well as bad. He loved norway, my country and when Ålesund burned in 1904 he helped pay for the rebuilding of the city, something he very much did not have to do. I think he was a flawed man but still a man who tried, and for that he has my respect.
20:21 herr Kaiser, there’s been a second interview
A tragedy. If he’d continued Bismarck’s diplomatic system of alliance with Russia and Austria and good relations with Britain, and his father’s support for a parliamentary system of government, the world would have been quite different.
No na*is, no communists, no US domination, no cold war, no islamism. A perfect world.
i went into this video expecting the typical (often deserved) Wilhelm II. bashing but came out learning the rather complex dynamic of the crown and politicians. I feel bad for him
Don’t be XD
@@mikewazowski7024 U r polish
@@incursus1401Kaiser dumb
British literally wanted war they got it and they won but at what cost -another world war and becoming vassal of us
Don’t - he was a war criminal who got off lightly
Im actually on the Wilhelms side this time. The dude was tired of all the nonsence people were blabbing on about, honestly tried to correct it himself, and then just got trolled even harder because it wasnt politically expectent. Like cmon everyone git what he ment and what he wanted, but decided to look at it in the worst way possible. Its a "see how much i like you?! Like me back!!" Type of letter, but instead people decided to destroy him instead of taking him seriously, even if he wasnt 100%. This is why we cant have nice things.
- Actively shipping arms to Boer Republic, congratulating it's President on the victory against the British, lying for the fact that British victory was only caused by his leak of Boer Battle plans, yet still saying that German Empire have no il will against British Empire
- literally saying that most German population are anglophobic, and that he is the minority that have favourable views towards it
no, no one knew what he meant, especially since he worded his words like that, he lack subtlety at the very least, an idiot at worst
@briantarigan7685 Least Anglophobic German:
@@wjak9-4sk5i-pw5yiGermans arent anglophobic enough
He might have made an honest attempt but he was just so fundamentally bad at his job that it didn't matter. Like sometimes you just need to learn when to keep your mouth shut. I mean it should be fairly obvious that if you're trying to improve relations with a country you try to compliment it and emphasize similarities, you do not go "look at all the things I've done for you how dare you not like me?", that's just one step short of calling them ungrateful brats.
@@hedgehog3180Yeah and he managed to piss of everyone involved which is a skill in on itself
Thanks for this interesting presentation. The Kaiser's interview with William Bayard Hale was suppressed for 25 years.
Oh Wilhelm, you always lacked that filter.
Also lol at Grey saying that about others.
There are volumes of reasons for the British to go after Wilhelm II. The Dreadnaught Race. Projecting the Atrocities that inflicted on the Boers on the Germans through the Heroero slaughter in German Southwest Africa and the issues are endless. Being Queen Elizabeths grandson just made relations uncomfortable. This is another great episode and I appreciate the thoroughness of a story that is well told. Thank You
Victorias grandson.
_"Projecting the Atrocities that inflicted on the Boers on the Germans through the Heroero slaughter in German Southwest Africa and the issues are endless"_
Could you elaborate?
@@ochre379 basically the german empire commited the first genocide of the 20th century on the herero and namaqua which were 2 ethnic groups in german namibia who resisted german encroachment on their land
@@moustachio05 Exactly, but that's not what OP's comment sounds like, which is a bit sus.
@moustachio05 calling it a genocide isnt right it's certainly deportation and maybe ethnic cleansing but genocide is the wrong word for it
This was the age that political cartoons really took off
Interesting video Sir Manatee!
BTW
Can you do a video about the Mayerling Incident?
Good suggestion!
@SirManateee didn't expect you to respond but thanks!
What is the Mayerling incident
@@Pioneer_DE The Mayerling Incident refers to the events surrounding the apparent murder-su*cide pact of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover, Baroness Mary Vetsera, They were found dead at the Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889.
Wilhelm strikes me as a well-meaning but ultimately incompetent ruler. His reign was a tragic end to the rule of the great Hohenzollern dynasty.
Yep very much like the tsar in Russia well meaning but incompetent
Yeah, I wouldn't say the guy who rewarded Carl Peters for his crimes and almost certainly personally ordered the Herero Genocide (and certainly supported and rewarded Lothar von Trotha) was a "well-meaning" guy.
Thanks for the video. What is intresting is that at this point the Kaisereich was just 37 years old ... so many living germans and english remembered a time when they still were part of prussia or Baveria or the many other german states. So i wonder if the realive youngess of the Kaisereich did have any influence on the perspective of the other countries or did most just view it as prussia in a new coat. After all that one had existed for far longer.
Of course, from the perspective of the established empires---perhaps save for Austria of waning glory---,a united Germany was a thing that just shouldn't exist on the already crammed world stage.
From young Childhood, it was written that he (Wilhelm) Played with Toy Battleship Boats in the Bathtub. A growing ambition to replace Britain on the High Sea.
11:55 Wilhelm, you need to stop going on trips during major political events, it’s really not the best habit!
Wilhelm really was a reverse Midas in foreign and domestic diplomacy.
Didn't even know I wanted to know about this scandal. Fascinating stuff take my sub
This channel is a goldmine! Rarely do youtube channels go deeper in their sources than a simple wikipedia page, having myself having researched infos on specific topics I understand the amount of work behind these videos. You deserve more than a mere 28k subscribers!
not referring specifically to this video btw
Kaiser Wilhelm was definitely a character of his time.
Very interesting. Thank You
The german empire had some of the worst diplomatic policy in modern history
All because Bismarck was dismissed 😢
I wonder how much of wilhelms more erratic and bizarre statements and behavior was due to age or some sort of mental unwellness since as far as I know most if not all of these stories are from post 1900 or very late 1890s, I could be wrong and would be interested in knowing more about his early reign or how acted as crown prince and how much of a difference there is between then and the later end of his reign
I think he had the same issue as Tsar Nicholas in that he was a conservative who expected to be a monarch of the old type that actually did rule and had been raised with very traditional values that simply didn't prepare him for the reality of the (then) modern world. He then also had the further disadvantage of not ruling over a repressive state with a population of mostly uneducated serfs and instead ruled over a constitutional monarchy with free speech and a fairly well educated population. Like the British royal family had long since learned that they should try to stay out of politics and instead present themselves as some sort of national ideal that the middle class could identify with and strive for, and other European royal families took note or learned the lesson themselves and that's probably why they're still around.
@@hedgehog3180 Also keep in mind what his mother did to him during his childhood. As incompetent als he was, it was probably for the better that William came to the throne to rule Germany through 26 years of its greatest prosperity instead of his father under the influence of that narcissistic woman.
You can say Wilhelm's mission was impossible
Mission Impossible: (For Your Own Sake) Shut Your Goddamn Mouth, Your Majesty!
If that’s what was published, imagine what he would write if he had access to Twitter… 😮
"Began do acquire a rather sizeable colonial empire..."
...consisting of a small sausage factory in Tanganyika.
Videos are amazing. I thought for a moment that this was about the Telegraph Crisis of WW2. As a proud drounk dane, I have to ask, is thst a possible future video?
Telegram Crisis I of course meant
Wilhem definitely had a temeper.
Could you please make a video on Einkreisungstheorie? Since it was Wilhelm´s fault for the state of German international affairs, it would be interesting to learn about the actual architects behind it.
The foreign policy of Wilhelm II was slightly erratic. His childhood was terrible. He should have kept Bismarck and focus on pre-written and approved speeches.
At 10:00 your take that this was a major media blunder in a democratizing world of mass media is remarkably insightful. 🙂
Lore of The Daily Telegraph Crisis momentum 100
I misheard that line as "He mostly kept a low profile until he started the First World War"
@nathanwaterser8218den ersten Weltkrieg haben wir ja wohl den österreichischen Kaiser Franz Joseph zu verdanken 😅
Who could blame conrad von hotzendorf...
This is just a clear and cut case of media manipulation then, also blown out of importance
Great video.
Great video! :)
Kaiser Bill had a splendid Moustashe ! but it went down hill from there !
You should make a video about the freicorps I’ve seen many people discussing them on the internet as of late and many of them (mostly right wing or anti communists) praising them and just as many (mostly left wing and anti fascists) calling them basically just Nazis in a different time period, I think it would be both interesting and enlightening to get a German and German historical perspective on the subject
I sense that the war between Britain and Germany should’ve never happened, both were from the same blood and same culture so even by that it was wrong for them to go into war. I do remember tho someone stating that when Britain declared war on Germany, it was just buisness and nothing personal because the British policy lies within the balance of power. I honestly believe tho that Germany and Britain should’ve never went against each other.
Germany would have quickly crushed France, then defeated Russia. Ukraine would have been given independence and developed.
No Communism, Fascism, WW2 and starvation and death camps.
Surveys in the rest is history podcast show a majority saying England should have stayed neutral
If I were the Devil’s advocate supporting the White Man’s Burden… I’d encourage more conflict among the colonialist powers, but some politicians among them would’ve figured out the metamedia propaganda, and you are right, WWI might’ve been much different or avoided altogether
Well said, that's how it is!
The Willy - Teddy Relationship.
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The uses of ‘friendship’. The ‘personal regime’ of Wilhelm II and Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
I truly truly appreciate that you took a more nuanced and fair stance on Kaiser Wilhelm II, most people simply take the word of writers of the time that throw him under the bus when he did everything he could to do right by his country and people.
Seems a bit hard to conclude that he genuinely tried to do what was best for the German people considering everything he did do. Seems more like he was often out of his depth and stuck in the past rather than being directly malevolent.
“Hildegard Von Spitzemberg”
You could tell me this is a made up name, and ill believe you
Amusingly, in my recommended below this videoI see a community post from The Telegraph about events at the G7.
Wow I never heard of this Kaiser. Thanks!
If the current eldest child succession rules of the British Crown were applied he would have been King of Britain and Germany. His mother was the eldest child of Queen Victoria
They tried to pull that before Princess Victoria was crowned Queen. Hanover said "No" and cut ties with the Royal Family in Britain...
Had Queen Victoria's eldest daughter been the heir to the British throne she probably would not have married Frederick of Prussia as I don't think either Bismarck or the British government would have welcomed a possible future personal union between the UK and Prussia/Germany. The British hadn't been too keen on the earlier one with Hanover and later made sure that there wasn't one with the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
@theotherohlourdespadua1131 the Salic law of succession ie: no females had always applied in the Brunswick-Luneberg duchies and later the Kingdom of Hanover
Opinion on the TH-cam lavader’s series on Kaiser Wilhelm?
He said the expansion of German navy was to protect trade
Has Lavader commented on the Hale interview? I'd love to see him try to spin that one.
No surprise about your second sentence. That is exactly what Alfred Mahan said in his very influential book about the history of Navies that defined the Pre-WW1 world. That book and its ideas influenced a lot of navies, including the Germans. Alfred Von Tirpitz, grand admiral and Minister of the navy during the Arms race, was very much influenced by Mahan and tried to replicate Royal Navy successes...
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Willhelm II: taking a break from -social- print media
Interesting, but where did you get those 'warship' construction numbers from?
Kaiser Wilhelm for no reason: *right click* *Begin Damaging Relations*
This story made me fell sorry for the emperor and I think we might be spirit animals. Or whatever they call people who are similar in certain ways 😅
Twin spirits?
I wonder, as the Kaiser looks up from hell, what he thinks of modern Germany. He might think all of them will be joining him soon.
The Kaiser is in heaven
@@thulfred only 144,000 people are part of the elect according to revelation. I doubt this random German is part of that. And like all men he was damned from the womb.
@@lipingrahman6648 I guess you are not in the 144 club?
@@thulfred After all the good things he has done?
Could you do a video on Carl Peters? He was quite a character, and yet I don't know anyone who's heard of him.
The death's head hat say's it all
He hated Britain due to his English doctor, and the reality of hostility from Edward VII & George. The British economy had already fallen behind the German Empire, and with Danish wife Bertie he and his son George loathed the Prussians. The first world war ended the British Empire, and turned the leading creditor into the leading debtor nation , and the unwinding of overseas territories over the next 40 years. Kaiser was just thick and provided the backdrop to the Military Dictatorship vive l'entente cordial
That’s complete bullshit. The deaths head is from the Hussars and they wore a skull because of their especially dangerous tasks in warfare. British hussars also have a skull as their symbol you maggot.
Hey Sir Manatee out of curiosity do you know that much info on the Zimmerman Telegram and Germany's 19th and early 20th century's relationship with Mexico?
I believe a great deal of fault laid in the German Constitution which really didn't place the Chancellor as a people appointed position rather than just a tool of the Kaiser
Bismarck wanted that way because he actually ruled the first Wilhelm..then he ran into the second everything went left. You're right though, they should've gone full parliamentary at that point but..
The Hun Speech is misinterpreted he was saying that the Chinese would show no mercy not telling the Germans not to show mercy
No, that was the edited version the government put out to cover Wilhelm's ass. The actual version very clearly stated: _“Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! _*_Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited."_*
Admit it, the Kaiser really needed a Press agent. Dude is making it far worse by speaking on things unedited...
15:20 Why is it probably a mix of both? A maleovent and devious scheme as you say sounds complicated to assume upon
I wonder what view the British elites held of the German empire and if it had any effect on GB declaring war on Germany.
For an accurate read of Germany's intentions, they needed only read Friedrich von Bernhardi's 1911 bestseller, _Germany and the Next War._ Germans really just don't know when to keep quiet sometimes, and that's a good thing for posterity because it means there are some things they just can't censor, edit or hide after the war.
I most certainly *can* help myself from feeling sorry for Kaiser Wilhelm.
he was a most prickly, inconsiderate, overbearing, bellicose and ultimately, pointless tyrant.
such character traits might have gone down okay in the 12th or 13th century,
but in the 20th?
no.
One of the advantages of monarchies where monarchs still make foreign policy is supposed to be that, as cousins, they feel familial fraternity and can have a quiet word behind the scenes to prevent warfare. Unfortunately, too often familial jealousies make warfare on their behalf that much more likely.
Yes people realised that was nonsense a long time ago. Renaissance scholars like More and Erasmus wrote about how that never works. And just looking at one example, the French Court’s policy of marrying daughters of German Princely Families led directly to various wars as Loius XIV pressed inheritance claims from his relations’ wives.
What? How does this situation prove anything but the press inflaming tensions? If the monarchs had more real power and influence Wilhelm II's desire for better relations would have simply led to better relations.
@@ryankasch5561Historically, that's a myth. A lot of wars prior to 1814 started because of family (a dispute over land ownership or succession being the most common). Also, kings having more power so they can stop wars? If that were the case then all wars in ancient, classical, medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern, Enlightenment, etc would not happen...
you should make a video of the german colony of papua
- Actively shipping arms to Boer Republic, congratulating it's President on the victory against the British, lying for the fact that British victory was only caused by his leak of Boer Battle plans, yet still saying that German Empire have no il will against British Empire
- literally saying that most German population are anglophobic, and that he is the minority that have favourable views towards it
lol, and many Kaiserboos today that their Emperor was a genius
Diplomacy at its finest
The problem of royalty played out with the world! Didn't work out as planned Eh ❓. ...... 🌎✌️🌍
Had Wilhelm ever visited the United States? Not necessarily as a kaiser.
10:24 Having such a glorious moustache, who on Earth would not want to show it of? Who on Earth would listen to such shitty general as Semyon Budyonny if he hadn't had such a glorious moustache? :D Same with Wilhelm II, who would want to be lead by him if he hadn't had that moustache? :D
A like and a comment for the road.
Rebuffed by the matriarch from family inner circle , makes wilhelm a retributive man..
The German Empire was Europe's last chance to dominate the world in a fair way. It would've democrataicesd eventually, but our perception of democracy would've been different. Most people would've seen constitutional monarchism as the best way to put democracy in effect. Maybe militarism would've survived. Who knows?
'Dominate the world in a fair way' 😂😂😂
he should have left it to the professional elites who are much better at propaganda, take my country 🇬🇧 for example, most people TRUST the bbc, TRUST the Politicians For Life System , entrenched power is something to look up to. We are an oligarchy and most people are blissfully ignorant
The Kaiser Speaks
The Social Democrats: 😠😡👿🤬😾😤
It’s pronounced boo-r with a long oo made in the front of your mouth and a hard rolling r. I normally wouldn’t nitpick, but it sounded like Wilhelm was chatting to boa constrictors in South Africa.
Which might be kinda based actually
"the bow-ers"
Why you didn't mention the previous (~1880-1910) immense germanophobic writing in the british Press? Yes, it came from fictional literature but influenced the common folks in general and also the printing presses writing. Take a look into that. Its astaunding!
Probably because he didn't want to mention Treitschke, Fritsch, Ratzel, Bernhardi or the host of other Anglophobic characters in Germany running their mouths off since 1871. It's very hard to mention the effect without the cause.
Something something astoundingly stupid German PR something something Willy was an idiot
I mean was that really the cause or anything or just Tabloids being Tabloids? Sure Tabloids suck ass and cause a lot of problems but they're often a symptom just as much as a cause. Like the Daily Mail will still regularly write dumb shit about literally every other country in the world but the Daily Mail is also widely mocked in British society and is far from the only newspaper.
1:00 Lotharingian ???
It's a city in Elssas-Lothringen
Yeah Alsace-Lorraine as a pop culture term was never properly used in this way, both Lorraine and Alsace are regions describing areas from both Germany and France even today
German Napoleon III
Perdiduous????
Hardly disagree with your conclusion.
I don’t feel sorry at all for him.
No one forced him to write this interview. He was clearly unfit to rule any empire
"Let's quickly take a look at Germany's diplomatic situation in the years leading up to the Daily Telegraph crisis."
Aw, do we have to? It's depressing enough! Why can't that Hohenzollern learn to keep his trap shut?!
Seriously though, hasn't there been some speculation that Willy may have had a form of ADHD?
If he had ADHD is hard to tell but he most likely had an inferiority complex because of his deformed arm if you look at his pictures you will always see that one of his arms is always hidden, as well as his borderline abusive mother and her quest to try and fix his arm with some really questionable medical treatments by a lot of doctors hired by his mother. It properly let to him trying to prove that he is worth something by always trying to get involved in politics.
@@Helania12 That is true enough. I hear he loathed his parents (or at least his mother, at any rate).
Yeah he had his personal hatred for queen vicky as he blamed his arm on Britain…
Even as a German I can say he was one of the worst leaders in terms of decision making (excluding hitler for clarification)
> Seriously though, hasn't there been some speculation that Willy may have had a form of ADHD?
It would explain why after the 1912 war council he couldn't shut up about his plans to the Swiss ambassador.
Work on your pronunciation of BOER!!!!! Good vid tho!
Are you German? You have an almost perfect English accent with a slight hint of German in there lol. Am I right?
This dude definitely had ADHD he is sooo gen Z
So at the end of the day was it a case of misunderstanding, media manipulation or simply poor wording on the Kaiser's side?
Media being manipulative is a given, Kaiser Bill kept giving them ammo...
@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Either way they took it to their graves,
free my boy Kaiser Wilhelm he ain't done nothing
Look up Carl Peters's activities in Tanzania, what the German government decided to do about it, and then what Kaiser Wilhelm decided to do about that.
It's funny that Wilhelm was sorta seen like American Republican Presidents today, like they say stupid shit but you shouldn't mind them because that's just what they're like. Usually it doesn't really do significant damage to diplomatic relations though Trump did manage to seriously damage American-European relations but he's quite the special case.
British propaganda is so pathetic lol
Britain doesnt belive in propaganda. Its not gentlemanly
I'd like to think we can suborn just about anyone, but I don't think we had the Kaiser on our payroll.
Not this one, anyway.
are we sure it was complete nonsense ? England often had the " Russian Strategy " just throw men an resources at an objective until you smother it..a look through Victoria's private correspondence might be in order..In WW1 if the German Army had listened to him (defensive position in the West and full on attack in the East) the war might have ended differently..
Say what you will about him, von Moltke was right. You just can't take one set of highly detailed plans and replace them on the fly with another one without everything going to pot. Besides, the Kaiser only said that because he was momentarily under the impression France would stay neutral; in the 1912 Imperial German war council, he was singing a rather different tune.
This kinda further reveals why this entire suggestion is stupid, there's no chance in hell that Victoria had any personal involvement in the Boer war. That was solely left up to colonial administrators and commanders. Victoria mostly stayed out of British politics and the direct management of the empire and was more of a figurehead that'd occasionally play a role in diplomacy or make some sort of good will gesture. She very much established the traditions that the British royal house would stick to and are the reason why they're still around.
It is hugely irresponsible of you to not mention that the Boer Republics were slave states and that the Dutch settlers' primary reason and motivation for maintaining independence from Britain was to keep the institution of enslavement of native Africans. That's arguably the singular reason they desired to maintain independence, as evidenced by the Dutch slaveholders' own words. I understand you only mention the Boer Republics briefly, but since their main purpose for formation was preserving slavery, even the briefest mention of them should include that fact.
It's especially irresponsible for you to say that there was any reason other than preserving the instutition of slavery as to why the Dutch settlers desired independence. The British certainly weren't much better than the Boers in their treatment of native Africans, but it is horrendously academically dishonest to say the Dutch settlers' desire for independence was because of anything but slavery. It's as dishonest as saying the American civil war was not caused by slavery.
Now I see why Germany went into WW1 with so few and weak allies.
Wilhelm II. is the Donald Trump of his time.
I didn't know Trump was itching to start a war with Mexico to take lebensraum, or that one of his staffers wrote _The United States and the Next War_ spelling out that position.
why am i not suprised that the worst of the three kaisers managed to mess up so hard?
With a wife that made Wilhelm who he was, who knows if Frederick's rule, had it lasted longer, wouldn't have been much worse.
@@TiberentenTV do you mean wilhelm or wilhelm II because the later one was broken in so many ways that his mom was likely the least damaging women in his life. that would have been his grandmother queen victoria.
@@Irobert1115HD Of course I mean Wilhelm II, the guy from the video, whose mother did her thing quite thoroughly. Look her up: Not only did she hate Prussia and Germany as a whole, she also hated William for his botched arm, and boy did she make him feel it. I have absolutely no doubt about the fact that evil woman was the only reason he came out so flawed.
With Queen Victoria, on the other hand, Wilhelm was on quite good terms. He even held her when she died. If that doesn't say something, I don't know what does.
@@TiberentenTV i quote the man himself: british doctors took my health and now they take my father. and yes the doctors that bothed the assistance at his birth where send by queen victoria.
@@Irobert1115HD Most people who aren't quite all right have no clue they aren't quite all right, much less, why they aren't.
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What kind of mincing accent/diction is this? Very distracting.
Britzain? Indzependzence? Presidentz?