The HORRIFIC Death Of Kaiser Wilhelm II - The Last Emperor Of Germany
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2023
- In June 1941, after spending decades of his life in isolation Kaiser Wilhelm II, a man who is considered the main warmonger who brought the First World War to Europe died in The Netherlands. He was a man who had animosity for many countries across Europe, and he also would live to see the Second World War break out across the continent, however the Nazis who were now in control of Germany would consider what to do with the body of the former emperor. But Kaiser Wilhelm II was the last emperor of Germany, and he was a man who built Germany up to become a great power which resulted in the First World War, but he was a man who was the eldest grandchild of Queen Victoria the British Queen. He would call the shots following the death of Victoria, and dictated for a death mask to be cast of his grandmother’s face against her will. But as mentioned following the First World War he would flee Germany and he lived out the rest of his life in exile. But what is the story of his death?
My German language teacher was a child in the Netherlands in the town where the Kaiser lived. As a child, my teacher visited the Kaiser on many occasions. He describe him as a kind man.
So?
@@CarlosJuarez-eb5gxbe quiet fool 🧙♂️
@@CarlosJuarez-eb5gx The ally’s propaganda portrayed him as a war mongering tyrant to fit their narrative. The truth is never allowed to be told by the defeated!
You're getting worse with the clickbait. He just died of illness for heaven's sake!!! 😡 😡😡😡
Um, how exactly does dying in ones sleep count as "horrific"...unless you are a Viking or a Klingon?
Yep that's clickbait right there he died like most of will by age.
Why is every biography of anyone on the internet entitled the "Horrific death?" We all die of something no matter how famous we are.
You're correct.
It is overblown - the adjectives such as 'horrific', 'brutal', 'vicious' - and each use demands an explanation.
Why was a death 'horrific'? What was 'brutal' about it.
All it really means is that the video's maker is an amateur.
The Unfairly Peaceful Death of Wilhelm ll who deserved to have been hanged for war crimes would have been more apt.
True. And about Wilhelm II, he didn't had an horrific dead at all, he died quite peacefully at 82, though in exile
We all die of the same thing … a lack of breath 😂
@@paulcorrigan3753 I was taught, in military intelligence, that you could identify a lie by the numbers of adjectives and adverbs.
Recent biographers who have re-examined the life of Wilhelm II do not consider him a warmonger. That turned out to be the British propaganda at the time of WWI. In fact, Wilhelm II spent many of his summers in Great Britain and loved his grandmother, Queen Victoria and the UK. He worked very hard at diplomacy to keep WWI from starting. His generals did want the war. Also although Wilhelm II wrote diplomatic letters to Hitler who was then the leader of Germany, he was never fooled by the Nazis and always intensely disliked and mistrusted the Nazis Party.
Hardly a horrific death
Typical clickbait...
IKR
I don’t believe you understand the meaning of “horrific”. You need to flesh out your narrative with more specific information and detail; for example, it was his left arm that was damaged in his blotched birth. He blamed his British mother and her doctor for it.
And the author hasn't said a word in 7 months.
Kaiser wilhelm II died peacefully at a great age for the era, in his own bedroom at his Huis Doorn manor of his own, he was lucky after abdication to be retired in a simple way of life, when the first world war began he was unable to lead it, this war was ended 4 years after because of his unability to stop it, we can't count the amount of young men in all countries who paid the heavy price of their lost life, most of them are still missing and rare ones are discovered and find by dna for the benefit of their families who can finally buried them.
The world war was not caused by him. The opposite is true. He tried to prevent it
Welcome to Her Horrific History
so evry death is horrific to you? i quess its all just clickbait,
HORRIFIC?????? OK, my father, who died of lung cancer REALLY had a horrific death, in this case.
He was a real hero. He was defending his land and his people. There is an old adage that whom much is given, much is expected. He was an Emperor and he never wanted his country or his people to be subject to any foreign rule. No head of a family will want any member of his to be subject to another person or people outside the family anyway.
He never wanted that war with Great Britain to the best of my knowledge. Afterrall he has British blood.
But much was given to him to be the defender of his land and his people. So he wasn't a Dictator. He was the father of the land and no father will want /like you to come and mistreat his children for any reason.
The difference between him and his cousin the King of Great Britain was a family feud which he never wanted because he has deep love and respect for his Grandmother Queen Victoria and his maternal land Great Britain.
We who are living in this modern generation should not forget that the Anglo Saxon relationship is one of the oldest in the history of man both in language and culture. Let's eschew our differences in the past and work for a better tomorrow. I love that.
I wouldn't say that he was a warmonger, he certainly wasn't solely responsible for all the death and horror of WWI. Austria-Hungary and Russia bore more direct responsibility for what happened in the summer of 1914. But Germany and Prussia in particular were in the strongest position to stop the war from breaking out and widening. Tragic that his father Frederick III had only a few months on the throne, it seems likely that he would have resisted the more militant elements within the government rather than have Germany embark on an arms buildup and ultimately sign off on the Schlieffen plan to invade France through Belgium. A wiser ruler could have recognized Germany's position in Europe as one of being potentially surrounded by enemies.
While Bismarck did recognize that sobering reality of Germany's situation and who as Chancellor sought out alliances his foreign policy had the flaw of leaving France totally out in the cold.
France literally had a policy of 'revenge' (revanche) with the stated goal or retaking Alsace-Lorraine and it was on this basis they secured an alliance with Russia decades before WW1. Britain joined the alliance simply because Germany was building a fleet that approached the size of the British Navy. There was plenty of blame to go around for WW1
@@scottabc72 The relative roles of Germany and France in the outbreak of war in 1914 can certainly be debated. It should be noted that there were those in the Prussian leadership in 1870-1871 who had misgivings about taking Alsace-Lorraine knowing what it could mean for the future.
Going back to Kaiser Wilhelm II the point I wanted to make is that he can't be held responsible for the outbreak of WWI in the same way that Hitler is held responsible for the outbreak of WWII a quarter century later. The situation in 1914 was far murkier.
@@takashitamagawa5881 I agree, my position is that WW1 was a systemic failure rather than the leadership of any one state. I think Germany was a little more responsible but only a little.
You're leaving out Serbia? But seeing that he could have stopped Austria from pursuing their desired foolishness, he bears the biggest guilt to me. But he was weak and when he was getting cold feet was pulled back in by his generals whining about how stopping the mobilization would screw up the rail traffic over the Rhein bridge at Koln.
Not going to write a long post about every country's role. Just going to say there is plenty of blame to go around, and none of the major powers were sinless in trying to prevent the war. One part of events, that is usually not mentioned in the march to war, is that literally at the 11th hour, when it finally sunk in for Germany that Britain would enter the war, Germany desperately tried to get AH to call off it's invasion of Serbia, which was about to begin. It was to no avail.
A quite normal death for an old man. How is this HORRIFIC? Click bait title.
In the 1974 TV series 'Fall of Eagles', the actor🎭 Barry Foster portrayed Kaiser Wilhelm II; the likeness is uncanny .
Great series highly recommend
Yes.! What a performance !!
How interesting! I have never heard of it before ( I think ),
but now I will watch it! Thanks!
Learning of the Kaiser's very comfortable death was so *horrific* that I blew my coffee across the breakfast table! 🤗
I think he was more correctly called German Emperor instead of Emperor of Germany. That was to accommodate the sensitivities of the various kings, dukes, princes and so on of the constituent state of a united Germany.
Drop the "Horrific" title . To die in your 80s is definitely NOT horrific .
HORRIFIC !!!!, i don't think so . His cousin Tzar Nicholas had an horrific death along with his wife and children . Wilhelm II was a vain and petulant man but managed to escape the same end as his cousin by fleeing Germany ..........with trainloads of treasure .
he was lucky indeed! his cousin nicholas ii and family paid for all his european relatives
The Germans are far more Civilized than the filthy inbred Russians("Soviets").....the German People would have allowed the Kaiser to "Retire quietly" on a Prussian Estate. Even Hitler thought the "Kaiser" was No risk to his new Germany. The Prussian Aristocracy(most of the General Staff).... were still viewed as the Natural Upper class.
I’ve always thought that Bismarck was the real power in Germany up to the 1880’s. Bismarck used force to unite Germany but a also introduced much social reform. Perhaps, they wouldn’t have had WW1 if Wilhelm had listened to Bismarck. To start a war was not declared illegal until the founding of the League of Nations so no matter how bitter everyone was, the Kaiser and his generals could not have been declared criminals for starting a war. How do you think the English Empire was founded? Even though starting a war is now illegal, instigators of war are rarely punished.
The whole narrative that the Kaiser was responsible for World War I is pure and utter bullshit.
Not sure what Bismarck has to do with anything? He died in 1898.
Germany was united in 1871 after a war against France wich was started by France to a trick of Bismarck (Emser Depesche). Bismarck was some kind of political architect for a unitied Germany. He implemented a system of peace treaties with other countries to make a war very unlikely because that war might have escalated quickly.
Later Austria-Hungary declared war against Serbia (Franz Ferdinand assasination), Russia declared war against Austria-Hungary, because of that Germany declared war against Russia and so on…
Bismarck built modern Germany. The old Kaiser and Bismarck stood behind each other respectively. They knew what they were doing. Wilhelm II had a complex because he was a crippled king, mad at the whole damned world. He lived to threaten and use his huge Army, and he finally did. In the works forever. His mouth shattered nerves everywhere.
@@Erik-sw8wm Bismarck always said " Keep friends with Russia." Wilhelm started out disagreeing with, and then firing Bismarck. And walked away from Bismarcks' " Drei Kaiser Bund." Later Wilhelm tried to fix it back with his cousin the Czar, but the Russians turned a deaf ear.
He was not the sole person responsible for WW1, i would like to rebuke that the Austrians started the conflict to combat terrorism
Rather judgemental, although I do understand the author's point of view ... Many historians have considered George V, the Romanovs, the Hapsburgs and the French equally responsible for the horror of WWI, which changed the world irrevocably ...
Hardly a horrific death.
Read some history books. There were various and sundry reasons for The Great War. The Austro-Hungarians, Russians, Serbians and French had a little something to do with it.
Thank you for talking about him. I have seen his castle and it is absolutely huge. Some of his castle has stores inside of it.
Huis Doorn is not huge. It is a Dutch manor house. His palaces in Germany were large.
@@davidlogan4329 that is what I was talking about. His castle 🏰 in Germany
My grandmother had a photograph of the Kaiser hanging behind her toilet.
From what I have read, the Kaiser was in no way a warmonger. In fact he had come up with a plan for peace the he had submitted to his cousins King George V of Great Britain and Tsar Nicholis of Russia and from what I read , they both agreed this plan could work and keep peace. But the ministers or cabinet officials of all three Monarchs defied their orders to not mobilize and so the Kaiser was forced to mobilize his troops as well. To call this man a villain for all time is a real injustice to him and his family.
Baroness Ella van Heemstra (1900-1984), the mother of actress AUDREY HEPBURN, sold "Huis Doorn" to the Kaiser..true fact.
Some cities in America also have lists of World War One dead. There is one near me in Boston.
He wasn't a warmonger. The Russian Tsar the inept Nicholas II was the warmonger. It was he who mobilised the Russian army on the German border an act of war and refused to pull back. That lit the fuse that caused war to break out in other places. Of course it was the German invasion of Belgium that brought Great Britain into the war. If only his mother and uncle The Kaiserin Friedrich and Edward VII survived it possibly all could have been avoided.
Correct. The Russian Tsar was indeed a massive criminal.
Correct the kaiser wrote to Nicholas advising him to change his ways but that was ignored
Oh YES....So True!....And lets NOT forget the "Frogs"....that were itching to revenge their Losses in the Franco-Prussian war....Or the Brits that were eyeing ALL of Germany's Overseas Territories.
Wilhelm II was German Kaiser. He was never ever Kaiser of Germany. That title never existed. His father was Friedrich III and never Frederick.
Is this AI generated or just terribly written?
He seemed like a hateful person. I don't understand why he hated his British family so much. Family fighting family very sad😢.
Wilhelm the 1st with Bismarck did a lot more for the German people than Wilhelm the 2nd.
What birth defect did he try to hide? I didn't understand what you said.
He probably had a form of Bell's Palsy, or a similar neurological injury. It's not unusual for an infant born of a difficult delivery will suffer a fractured clavicle. Sometimes this will damage the nerves up near the clavicle and neck region. It can lead to complete or partial paralysis of the effected limb.
He had a withered arm. I think it was due to his birth when during that time. Because of the difficult labor with his mom, the doctors would have extracted the child with forceps; he was injured during that time. You can see which arm was aflicted in photos; he alway had the withered arm tucked away or hidden in photos.
Erbs Palsy, it shortened his left arm. He had nerve damage at the left shoulder and debilitating ear infections for his entire life.
Thank you all for explaining!
Congenital Limb Defect (arm)
One could only hope to die in such a "horrific" manner.
Thank you for the great photos! However, your commentary is subject to debate! Obviously, your mind has been conditioned to think one way
Always love how the British can always find fault with everyone but themselves.
The naval blockade by the UK and later with the USA caused millions of deaths by starvation and lasted till the summer of 2019. It was not right.
Don't forget my horrific death !!
"Horrific?" Wth?? That's ridiculously misleading. The man lived out his golden years comfortably in a MANSION in the Netherlands. He also was offered several opportunities for asylum, like in Britain when Churchill reached out to him at the offset of WW2.
Fascinating, thank you. "It'll start over some damn silly thing in the Balkans" opined he about WW1
I am glad Victoria wasn't alive to see what her in laws did after her passing.
As if whatever the British were doing wasn't horrific enough at any point in the last few hundred years.
Wilhelm was her grandson.
Victoria wasn't German
@@jenniferhanson8136 But Victoria was Kaiser Wilhelm's grandmother.
@C. W. Every country has a past. There has been lots of empire builder throughout the years. Can you point out one time the British committed genocide? I'm open to education if you are able.
its funny that adolf blames germanys loss to wilhelm II but yeat he also loss the war
Queen Victoria in the royal family in England were related to the royal family of Russia
Queen Victoria married her children into all or most of the royal families in Europe. Some say it's the reason that the Romanov's had the downfall when they did because she also passed her hemophilia on to many of them also.
Victoria passed her hemophilia to her daughter Alice who then passed it down to her daughter, Alix (who became Alexandra Feodorovna) who then passed it to her only son. Alexei (the heir to Tsar Nicholas II) was born with it and Alexandra would try anything to cure it thus how Rasputin wormed his way into the palace. He took advantage of a desperate mother who would do anything, pay anything for her son to be cured so she couldn't be blamed for having an heir that probably wouldn't survive to take his place after his father.
WWI (probably had the most to do with it and that you can lay at the feet of her cousin Kaiser Wilhelm) and Alexandra's German heritage had a little more to do with their downfall than Rasputin and the hemophilia but it all played a part.
A little more history on how many of the royal houses of Europe are tied together through marriages of Victoria and Albert's children. 🙅🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤣
Queen Victoria is literally referred to as the "Grandmother of Europe."
Good deal of bias in this video, history is written by the winners. He died from a pulmonary embolism.
It is true he was considered a war monger by the western powers, but the first fighting in WW1 was, if I´m correct, between Austria and Serbia, after the assacination of the Austrian crown prince Franz Ferdinand. Austria was allied to Germany, and Serbia was allied to Russia, and Russia to France which led to a much larger war, so the situation was much more complex than it was in 1939, when first Germany, and then the Soviet Union, invaded Poland, followed after 2 days by Brittish and French declarations of war against Germany.
I don’t get why people don’t hold Russia at least somewhat responsible for ww1. Yea Austria-hungry attacked Serbia but russia was the first major power to mobilize its troops and Germany had no choice but to respond (mobilize )or face not being able to be ready in time to stop Russian army from sweeping eastern Germany
This poor narrator stumbles reading the simplest words. It really is pitiable. Most unfortunate.
Queen Victoria's grandchildren were all very beautiful and handsome ppl.
and vicious
@@sp4c3g Yeah, I agree.
@@sp4c3g No, not vicious.
Wilhelm 😊❤
This video is a bit too one sided in my opinion, and while I agree that Germany played a pivotal part in the start of WW1, and the Kaiser was a war monger who didn’t want to show ‘weakness’, both Germany and the Kaiser can’t be blamed for the total outcome of WW1.
Most historians agree that when taking in all the facts and circumstances all powers involved bare responsibility for the prolonged war and its many casualties. The reason why the Kaiser played the role he did, has to do with a complex of factors. Like his very HARSH upbringing and ‘treatments’ to correct his arm, which was non functioning because of a problem at birth.
The fact all royals in Europe are connected to each other and basically one family, also played a part in this. Wilhelm was very fond of Queen victory and the UK as a country. Which he frequently visited, however he had a love hate relationship with England when it came to other relatives and the UK as a whole.
He also grew up in a time where having a handicap was seen as a big problem, which caused him both psychical and mental suffering. Plus being a military focused person was ingrained in him from a very early age. In front of the palace he grew up in, there was a miniature fortress with actual working miniatures canons.
You have to see his actions within the context of his time and circumstances, but to be fair, he was a vulnerable narcissist with annoying threats. One of the things I can still remember from visiting Huis Doorn here in the Netherlands is the eating arrangement. People could only start eating when the Kaiser started, and had to finish if he finished. Meaning that often people hardly eat at all, and were still hungry after leaving the dinner table.
He also loved to chop wood, and probably chopped down most trees around Huis Doorn. But he did donate the wood to surrounding villages so people could be warn in winter. A very complex and difficult character to judge, however I do understand the hostility towards him. I am against the death penalty myself, but given the fact thousands were shot during WW1 for often not even doing anything wrong, he deserved it much more then them.
He he, the true story is the exact opposite of what is being claimed here, so typically British, nation before truth.
sorry too much pontificating in lieu of just history.
that story doesn't make sense, kings dont do that
I believe that the video is historically incorrect in many parts.
Is it based on the fact that Austria and Germany did not suffer from love troubles, and that France, Britain and Russia were innocent of the conflict and had no hand in it? Enough falsifying history, while the Tsar was spending his vacation after the assassination of the Archduke of Austria.The President of France was making a support visit to Britain and Russia and expanding the scope of the crisis (during July, which is a holiday).
suggest he was not a warmonger a creature of his time who rightly or wronglybelie .
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As a Swede, my life would be complete if Germany would crown His great grandson. Gud bevare Konungen!
pointing the finger of blame at Wilhelm II is pure BS, all of Europe including Great Britain was equal in guilt for letting events spiral into a World War
Why he so cruel? I am not sure. The Austrian government made massive mistakes. Also, William's chief minister did not follow directives from the Kaiser. The Czar of Russia mobilized his army when they should not have. I believe he was a good man, and did not want war.
schestzwich hollstein lol
I enjoyed mention of the Flying Arches. I pictures McDonald's signs flying overhead!
Horrific? My Arse ......
Sorry , but The Kaiser wasn't buried .....His coffin has rested on a Dias for the past 82 years in the mausoleum .
He died peacefully of old age hardly a horrific death more exaggerated nonsense
"Horrific"? Click Bait!
Stunted narrative
Talk about click bait title
Horrific?
HORRIFIC is only click bate here, and probably in most of your videos. Just another contributor to a flood of BS in today's world. Not that his death was easy. That being said, the video is good.
If you'll pardon the tangent, during the last years of his life, did Wilhelm have any contact with his cousin Edward VIII / the Duke of Windsor? They both seemed to look to Hitler as a means to restoring themselves to their respective thrones.
No Kaiser wilhelm II didn't have any contact with Edward VIII
Also Edward never wanted to regain his throne
Wow!! IDK wt part of horrific do u mean btw king George V was also responsible for WW1 + Tsar of Russia + Raymond poincare of France all those should be charged for war crimes
What a great content. Greetings from Brazil 😀
Didn't the US enter the war in 1917?
Another informative and interesting video. thanks very much.
Why are you slandering the Kaiser? The Milner group started the war, not the Kaiser
Thank you so very much for this inspiring history lesson!
The commentator needs to get another job!
As usual British biases come out even in documentaries.
One-sided durt
the die of wilhelm was cast at his birth when that Scottish doctor that delivered him botched the whole thing by over drugging wilhelms mother and her poor baby was made a cripple by that quack of a dr. . so yes he had a great dislike of any thing English .
Queen Victoria sent 2 bottles of Laudanum ( opium water) to the Kaiser’s mother to reduce the pain of childbirth . Her physician hadn’t used it before and accidentally overdosed her during the birth - sedating both mother and baby which necessitated the use of forceps in the delivery which caused the deformity to neck and left shoulder - injuries that had grave consequences for a whole Generation.....
Poorly researched and hateful anti-Wilhelm diatribe
I could supply many facts but what's the use.
Stupid clickbait ...... the title alone is a warning to avoid this crap.
HORRIFIC?!!!!
Poorly narrated
My God this was an off-topic ramble, and like written by a high schooler
The Americans entered the war in 1917. Duh!!!
Learn your subject matter! Wilhelm had a withered arm because Queen Victoria insisted on a British doctor at his birth who screwed up! This in part, led to Wilhelm's resentment of the UK.
Wilhelm II had a non-functioning shorter arm due to the fact that he was violently pulled from his mother's womb. He was a breech birth. The alternative was the death of both mother and baby. The Doctor saved both lives.
Huis Doorn is like a time-capsule for the Imperial way of life he led. That it is stained with so much blood, came to mind when looking at his dinner services. There was in his private study, a exquisite little photo of the murdered Tsarvich Alexis of Russia, proudly displayed, touchingly sweet. Then to think that he created all of that nightmare. His bedroom featured a garishly elaborate, huge, fold out lavatory. Yes, the Kaiser's sh*tter! Everything else was very prim and overly decorated, with very fine but useless things of vanity and saccharine sentiment. He spent his time cutting down trees, and was known as the 'Logger of Doorn'. He wiped out untold acres of woodland, with huge piles of wood neatly stacked...sort of like bodies in piles. His tomb is just off from the manor, and you can just see through the barred stained glass the outline of his red coffin, strewn with ancient dead wreaths. It is a beautiful place.
Serbia fired the first shots on some dude in his car.
Serbia is to blame simple as.
Kaiser did nothing diffrent from britain and similar ambitions ect.😂
He was left…..
What an arrogant monster ! Queen Victoria said he was an unpleasant child with a temper although he wanted her to love him !
To bad it wasn't a horrific death. If anyone deserved it, it was him.
He was a beast.
He was a narcissistic baby idiot.
He was not actually. He was proud and pompous but he was not an evil man.
Kaiser wilhem kinda like putin
So yet another video about a man. The reason I first subscribed was the fact you were doing videos about women in history. Your channel is called “her” remarkable history. Not remarkable history.
I still enjoy her videos because she does her best to give us history every day.
She does a great job full of authentic history wheather he or she. I love all of her videos.
He was my 3rd cousin. Hitler married my cousin.
dislike button.
warmonger...
Horrible leader.