Btw Bismarck after the unification made every effort on the book to keep the peace bc Germany was too strong and he feared the other nations would unite against Germany as it turned out to be the case
Otto is the father of the mess Germany plunged into - he directed the aggression against Denmark then he shivved the Austro-Hungarians and then his sneaky stunt with that telegram suckering the French. His next move to annex Alsace-Lorraine and the huge war indemnity were just more punches he designed....now after all that he's the voice of peace....he lorded it over Kaiser Wilhelm's grandfather and the brief reign of his father. Clown thought he was Edward R. Murrow or MacArthur - indispensable - no one is.
@@rusoviettovarich9221 Bismarck is not to blame for the war. He manipulated France to unify Germany, sure, but afterward, he ensured peace through his complex web of treaties and allyships. It was only when Wilhelm let Russia slip away by ignoring the Reinsurance Treaty that everything fell apart. If Bismarck had remained in power, the war never would've happened.
@@stilicho8987 Bismarck certainly didn't want the war, but the point must be made that he created the military and political imbalance that helped bring it about - France's implacable hostility after 1870, and the eventual rapprochement between France, Russia, and Britain. To put it another way, he may have been a genius for maintaining the peace for so long, but the fact that he needed to be a genius shows how precarious that peace was.
Its uncanny how much Christopher Plummer looks like the real Kaiser Wilhelm II, combined with how great an actor Plummer is you really feel like it was the real Kaiser getting it all off his chest about losing WW1.
@@Carpediem357 great actor! Was amazing in John Adams as King George III, such a short but great performance! Also was great in the 2015 film The Promise as an Armenian clown in a Turkish forced labor camp building the Baghdad Railway.
0:13 Wilhelm was proud for a second of the captains military heritage until that second where he realized the passive aggression and resentment in the officers voice.
@Commander Cody R u serious? He led his people into a multi front war. Millions died for his arrogance. He was'nt betrayed he failed as a leader. His demise was one of the many prices Germany paid.
@@Kamizudude What could be attributed as his arrogance is far more applicable to the military-industrial complex of Germany especially within those war-time years; the nation had become a complete military dictatorship wherein the highest echelons of the military essentially ruled the entire nation through decree whilst rarely appraising the Kaiser. I'd argue that had the Kaiser been bolder and asserted over Ludendorff or Hindenburg he would've simply fallen victim to a type of palace coup, maybe even a tacit endorsement from the military to parliamentary bodies to attempt limiting his powers over the state. As we've seen from their later careers, neither Ludendorff nor Hindenburg showed exceptional competence in civilian affairs when separate from the Kaiser, the former often being relegated to an emotional mess on a frequent basis even before the end of the war and the latter only held significance as being a unifying symbol of the nation which wasn't up to him to determine and is likely a result of the Kaiser taking the ultimate blame for everything.
@@genekelly8467 An inevitable disaster, the geopolitical reality of the time was not going to permit that Germany allow the potential for Austrian territory to be swallowed up by Russia nor would the allies permit both Austria and Germany to wage a unified war against Russia while they sat it out. The war in Serbia determined the outcome, not the Kaiser.
Out of his two most famous cousins Tsar Nicholas and George the 5th, the Kaiser lived the longest, but because of this he gets to see how harshly everyone would judge him
Little Germans judging a Prussian. How ironic. Germany was unified thanks to Prussian blood, sweat and tears. Now they are evicted from the homeland they helped build. It maybe Gdansk and Kaliningrad on a map but it will always be Danzig and Konigsberg in our hearts!
@@MinecraftMasterNo1 Your whole comment is ironic. 1. You refer to Germans as little people, while at the same time bragging about Prussians being instrumental in creating a unified Germany. Which would make them a part of the "little" people.. 2. You whine about the loss about Prussia, despite not being old enough to actully have lived in it. Or known anything about it. 3. Yeah, they were evicted from their homeland. You know like how the slavs of Prussia were expelled by the Teutonic Order.. That's what happens when you lose a world war... That's life..
@@Orcawhale1 Little Germans refer to the princes of the disbanded HRE who were not part of Prussia or Austria. Are you willfully ignorant or simply dumb? Am I not allowed to condemn Hitler or Stalin because I didn't live through it? Am I not allowed to show sympathy for the millions who died in the 30 Years War because I wasn't there? Jews shouldn't complain about being gassed. That's what happen when you lose an election. That's life. Germans shouldn't complain about the Danzig Massacre that actually started WW2. That's what happens when Germany has a Furher. That's life. You shouldn't ever complain about anything in your life. you whiny bastard. A man shoved his dick inside a woman and you got shitted out nine months later. That's life.
Did this scene, in which the late and last German emperor figures, remembered you of a present American leader? About kaiser Wihelm II a respected historian wrote the following: « Historians have frequently stressed the role of Wilhelm's personality in shaping his reign. Thus, Thomas Nipperdey concludes he was: "....gifted, with a quick understanding, sometimes brilliant, with a taste for the modern,-technology, industry, science-but at the same time superficial, hasty, restless, unable to relax, without any deeper level of seriousness, without any desire for hard work or drive to see things through to the end, without any sense of sobriety, for balance and boundaries, or even for reality and real problems, uncontrollable and scarcely capable of learning from experience, desperate for applause and success,-as Bismarck said early on in his life, he wanted every day to be his birthday-romantic, sentimental and theatrical, unsure and arrogant, with an immeasurably exaggerated self-confidence and desire to show off, a juvenile cadet, who never took the tone of the officers' mess out of his voice, and brashly wanted to play the part of the supreme warlord, full of panicky fear of a monotonous life without any diversions, and yet aimless, pathological in his hatred against his English mother.".... » [From the Wikipedia article on Wihelm II] We are fortunate enough to live during more democratic times when 'unsure and arrogant' autocrats are not allowed to plunge their countries in insane wars.
Ironically, it was a kindness that Wilhelm died when he did. Operation Barbarossa began just a few weeks after he died. Had he lived to see the end of the war, he would have seen the Soviet Union sweep into Germany, Berlin razed to the ground, Germany divided into two puppet states, and the dissolution of Prussia. To a man like him, it would have been utterly unbearable.
I think what I shall do for Christopher Plummer is I will put a small but honorable message in my story for DC Comics and it will say as a tribute to Christopher Plummer.
He can cry like a baby all he wants, he didn't have to suffer as the guy did most of his life. He can take it like man, but he takes it like a whiny bitchy queeny sack of spoiled rotten shit. Then blames others for losing a war that was rather idiotic in the first place to have entered. It was his fault ultimately for entering into war. If you want to be king or president or a representative be prepared to take responsibility for such power. Or don't do it. You can't do great things and take credit for it, then do shit things and not take credit for that too.
He was a human being here. It's in stark contrast to the later scene when Himmler talks about murdering children while still eating.... Tears me up as well
@@jmitterii2 Actually, as a child he had suffered from his birth defect, he had to go through several surgeries, they bound his arm in animal corpses, used shock therapy on him, his mother was ashamed of his disability and neglected him, his father was barely present, and his teachers were very strict and high demanding. Because of that he grew a very arrogant and impulsive personality, and during his years as Kaiser, he would get his reputation in trouble alot. And then after the war, he lost his fatherland, his empire. In exile, he could do nothing but watch his homeland get completely f*cked and then taken over by nazis.
Did this scene, in which the late and last German emperor figures, remembered you of a present American leader? About kaiser Wihelm II a respected historian wrote the following: « Historians have frequently stressed the role of Wilhelm's personality in shaping his reign. Thus, Thomas Nipperdey concludes he was: "....gifted, with a quick understanding, sometimes brilliant, with a taste for the modern,-technology, industry, science-but at the same time superficial, hasty, restless, unable to relax, without any deeper level of seriousness, without any desire for hard work or drive to see things through to the end, without any sense of sobriety, for balance and boundaries, or even for reality and real problems, uncontrollable and scarcely capable of learning from experience, desperate for applause and success,-as Bismarck said early on in his life, he wanted every day to be his birthday-romantic, sentimental and theatrical, unsure and arrogant, with an immeasurably exaggerated self-confidence and desire to show off, a juvenile cadet, who never took the tone of the officers' mess out of his voice, and brashly wanted to play the part of the supreme warlord, full of panicky fear of a monotonous life without any diversions, and yet aimless, pathological in his hatred against his English mother.".... » [From the Wikipedia article on Wihelm II] We are fortunate enough to live during more democratic times when 'unsure and arrogant' autocrats are not allowed to plunge their countries in insane wars.
@@MalAnders94 The scene, that is, the fictional Wihelm II's tantrum portrayed in the film, rings (although fictional).as true as it corresponds to Nipperdey's description of Wihelm II, as witnessed by many trustworthy people, taken from dozens of non contradictory and independent of each other statements, duly documented and contemporary. And it definitely matches the description of Trump as witnessed by many trustworthy people, taken from dozens of non contradictory and independent of each other statements, duly documented and contemporary. As much History (and Law also, by the way) works, it works thus. The rest is mere hearsay and gossip. And good historical fiction needs to have a good basis upon reality not upon sole phantasy. Then I think one can reasonably argue that this fictional scene "absolutely nails the personality of the Kaiser". I rest my case. :-).
First time I noticed him was in the series Spartacus, he played the "volunteer" Gladiator, who needed to pay down some debts for the sake of his family.
I will always reserve my judgement of the Kaiser, I am not him and never was in his posistion. I will say that due to his fathers untimely demise to throat cancer ill prepared Wilhelm for the Rigors of the World Stage, he needed to mature more. I mean who fires Bismarck? If Kaiser Friedrich III survived, Imperial Germany would still be a thing of today.
@RetroSupporter93 idk about Russia offering an alliance to Germany, but i do know that do to existing alliances, when Austria declared war on Serbia, Russia had to intervene to defend their ally Serbia, and Germany had to intervene because them and Austria had an agreement to stand together in the event of a Russian declaration of war. What I would call dumb was the Idea to go west and bring Britain and France into it.
@@warhawk9566 you are wrong, france was attacking germany as germany and austria were at war with russia, which was frances ally. Germany went through belgium to oberwhelm france and this brought great britain in, which was arguably inevitable, but nonetheless sooner. Nonetheless, might have still been worth it, germamy would have probably been stalemated in elsass
It’s amazing how the whole XX century history is tied to Wilhelm's father premature death. A throat cancer just sealed the destiny of hundreds of millions of people. It’s depressing.
Frederic III. is considered to have been greatly overrated by modern german historians. He wouldn't have been a that much more progressive ruler and wouldn't have fundamentely changed the german society. Also, it's not like he magically got throat cancer, he worked very hard for that.
The Pullé I gave my life to this game, and this is my thanks? My team, they betrayed me, Jeb, Microsoft, where where they, WHERE WERE THEY? They lost me my game, they lost me my pride
Chris Plummer says that what an actor should have to be truly "Great" is The Rage. The Rage that not only scares the shit out of his fellow thespians on the stage or on set, but the audience, too. The audience is the true arbiter of "acting!"
@@JD-Media I'm pretty sure he does, he just meant that this acts like a pretty good follow-up to the TV series Fall of Eagles (which is also about Kaiser Wilhelm II and the other European Monarchs/Dynasties).
I understand where the kaiser is coming from in this clip, being a historian, and the fact that with the treaty of Versailles neither Hapsburg nor hollenzern had a apot on the negotiating tables, and the allied powers completely shifted the blame on the losers of the conflict, when in reality, on many peoples eyes on both sides, including Winston Churchill himself, that every nation that partook in the war to end all wars shared a piece of the blame for the horror in it, and that everyone there should have had a bill to pay, rather then just Germany, which had a bill she didnt pay off until 2010. In the 1920s, even the US realised where Germany was headed, and offered 20 million of her money in 1920 to the War reparations office in Paris, to ease the load on germany. If the Kaiser could have stayed in power, Germany done the way it was done in West Germany in the Mid 1950s under General Marshall's not Morgenthaus Plan, Then Hitler nor the Corrupt Weimar would have never came to power.
The thing is there were supporters in Germany that hoped he would return, US were pretty much interest in the war economy and the Fat Minister screwed up Europe even more by allowing the Soviets in, did you know certain countires that had to live under communism yoke had large birth defects,
Yes, Hitler was WW 1 veteran, he was in hospital, badly injured in his head, lost a lot of his fellow soldiers in battkefield, and when they announced this in radio, he feels betrayed. Germany had to pay basically everything, and I read that this is actually one of his reason of his racist hate towards Jewish (I think his injured head also influenced him to madness) because most of the European elite bankers, well, 'merchant of death' in war, back then mostly were Jewish, you know The Rothschild and friends. The internal hate is crazy, because I read somewhere that Hitler actually has Jewish blood, to think that he is not even pure Aryan but obsessed with it. There's a reason why million people, a nation, fall into a charismatic madman like Hitler. He's understand people's pain, especially commoners. Imagine if Hitler were born in digital era, where social medias exist. Having a podcast and everything. Tons of propaganda theory and modern psywar today in Communication field (including journalistic, PR, broadcasting, and all) heavily influenced by NAZI knowledge. Let's hope we wouldn't repeating History and let another charismatic madman into raise, a new Hitler, a new cult, that lead everybody into nightmare.
As a (claimed, at any rate) historian I would have expected you to know better. Pray tell us, what part of the blame did the UK or France share? Did they give anyone carte blanche to pursue imperialist policies in Europe? Did they attempt to use gunboat diplomacy against another great power? Did they declare war right and left even against neutral countries? Did they use unrestricted submarine warfare, even when warned by those countries that were affected not to do so? Germany did all those things and half a dozen more. "Everyone was to blame" you say, yet only Germany seems to have pushed for the war and escalated it. It is also a complete lie that war reparations somehow crippled Germany. The country saw massive economic growth in the 1920s, only they took too many loans. At the end of the day Germany never really paid its reparations anyway. Shame on you sir. You are thoroughly misinformed on a subject matter you profess to be an expert in.
Plummer is amazing and a lot of attention was paid to details, but the Kaiser and his wife would have been addressed as "Your Majesty" rather "Your Highness" even after the abdication of the Kaiser
It's true We always forget about the one who lost And make fun of them. People always try to get closer to the person when they are great but forgets about them when they fall.
I love this movie. This is actually where i got my profile picture from. The cast is phenomenal. The budget for the movie was small yet it seems like the filmmakers knew how to spend wisely. The story is simple and follows your usual plot points; however, it highlights a certain part of history that is often overlooked.
Actually the Kaiser is not wrong. German generals pushed for the war and when it was lost, they picked up their ball and went home, leaving it to the civilian government to surrender.
At 0:42 You can see Wilhelm banging the table with his right hand. However, at 1:15, if you pay close attention, you can see that he bangs the table with his left hand despite the fact that his left hand was withered.
Did this scene, in which the late and last German emperor figures, remembered you of a present American leader? About kaiser Wihelm II a respected historian wrote the following: « Historians have frequently stressed the role of Wilhelm's personality in shaping his reign. Thus, Thomas Nipperdey concludes he was: "....gifted, with a quick understanding, sometimes brilliant, with a taste for the modern,-technology, industry, science-but at the same time superficial, hasty, restless, unable to relax, without any deeper level of seriousness, without any desire for hard work or drive to see things through to the end, without any sense of sobriety, for balance and boundaries, or even for reality and real problems, uncontrollable and scarcely capable of learning from experience, desperate for applause and success,-as Bismarck said early on in his life, he wanted every day to be his birthday-romantic, sentimental and theatrical, unsure and arrogant, with an immeasurably exaggerated self-confidence and desire to show off, a juvenile cadet, who never took the tone of the officers' mess out of his voice, and brashly wanted to play the part of the supreme warlord, full of panicky fear of a monotonous life without any diversions, and yet aimless, pathological in his hatred against his English mother.".... » [From the Wikipedia article on Wihelm II] We are fortunate enough to live during more democratic times when 'unsure and arrogant' autocrats are not allowed to plunge their countries in insane wars.
I'm glad that in recent years people have begun to understand that Kaiser Wilhelm II was almost as close to the good guy in war as it gets. He defended his allies, he defended his country, and when his general staff all but made him a figurehead he took the blame for everything they did and still tried to be there for his people. He loved his country to the very end, and when it mattered most, they turned their backs on him. But he never did. Hopefully one day he gets his wish of rightfully being returned to his homeland, even if the new Monarchy is just for show.
“my navy betrayed me” -1908s German Navy Prinz Eugen Fighthing with Britain “THEY LOST ME TO THE WAR” -1918s When The War Is Over And German Empire , And Prussian Was Defeated Their Own Fatherland
About the navy, I'm pretty sure he talks about the 1918 Kiel mutiny, where the sailors, not the worst treated in the conflict, refused to follow orders and revolt against the imperial and military authority
He's talking about the mutiny of 1918 in Kiel, the German High Seas fleet was ordered one last suicidal attack on the Royal Navy, the sailors simply refused to sail to their own deaths.
I wish I will live long enough to see the day the Prussian people are no longer barred from the homeland they helped build. It maybe Gdansk and Kaliningrad on a map but it will always be Danzig and Konigsberg in our hearts!
@@MinecraftMasterNo1 Sure, and Milan will be Celtic again one day. Not very realistic and considering Germany has one of the lowest birthrates in Europe there aren't even the numbers to Germanise those regions. Far more likely is that the Poles and Russians continue settling in Germany and Slavicise those areas the Turks aren't taking over.
The life of Wilhelm the second is a tragedy. Had a crippled limb from birth that he was relentlessly reminded of by his own family. Lost his father at a young age. Had a troubled relationship with his mother his whole life. Made awful political decisions that while definitely his own fault; could definitely be understood from the perspective of a man of his upbringing. Led his country into an awful waste of a war. Lost his throne, his people, his army and lived just long enough to see his home twisted into a fascist nightmare.
He led his people in the war, but he did not lead them to it, that he tried whole-heartedly to prevent That and he had to watch as he fought his own family eventually seeing to the death of his Cousin due to the actions of his nation Tragic Indeed
@@akessel92trainBecause Mackensen was probably the most loyal man in the world. As for Hindenburg, I believe Wilhelm had some degree of respect for him, although he didn’t prevent the collapse of the empire, he at least prevented a full on communist takeover and persecution of the royal family
@@PhilipTroubleMackensen wasn't as strategically involved as the other men mentioned. He was "just" a field commander leading several successful campaigns in the east, in serbia and Romania, not part of military high command.
Hindenburg kept the army from utterly collapsing as they withdrew from France and warned the Kaiser to leave Germany cuz he can't guarantee his protection so until the end Hindenburg stayed with the Kaiser until he can't
Wilhelm II and his staff just couldn't fill the boots of Bismarck, Von Moltke and the other old guard prussian leaders. Good times create weak flawed men.
That's far more onto his staff rather than his person, his military leadership was essentially ruling the entire nation by decree during the wartime years.
Never would have happened. Germans always overestimate their military prowess, and they were hellbent on making everyone in the world turn against them.
Had the Kaiser been allowed to remain as a constitutional monarch there would have been no Hitler. I blame the allies and especially the vindictive French for 1939.
I wish I will live long enough to see the day the Prussian people are no longer barred from the homeland they helped build. It maybe Gdansk and Kaliningrad on a map but it will always be Danzig and Konigsberg in our hearts!
@@MinecraftMasterNo1 I could not agree more. Each January 18th I fly the Imperial German flag for the 1871 Proclamation of the Second Reich under Bismark at the Versailles Hall of Mirrors. Revolutionary France was down after the Franco Prussian War and it should have stayed that way. As for the so called Polish Corridor, that was an act of impure spite - had Poland needed access to the sea that access could have been achieved from the eastern side of Poland and East Prussia retained as German land.
@@rogeredwarrddeshon5000 Germany had to give to France the same amount France had given after the loss of the Franco-Prussian war ( adjusted to inflation ). The germans had destroyed part of Belgium and France ( Whose economy's was completely ruined ), and had terrorized the local populace ( See : the Rape of Belgium ) The treaty was harsh, but not unfair. Were the Allies just supposed to give Germany a light slap on the wrist after all they've done ? Should they have let them keep all their territory, their military, and economy just as before the war and kept the status-quo? It would be stupid to think so. You need to look at it from the point of view at the time. Germany would also most probably have done even harsher conditions anyway, as they planned to annex more resource rich regions and payments. " I blame the allies and especially the vindictive French for 1939." How about blaming the vindictive Germans for putting Hitler in power in the first place? I know full well that it was in great part due to the allies that Hitler managed to go into power, but I feel like a lot of ... German nationalists (?) like you like to forget that it's the German that put Hitler in place and that they had a choice over it ( Around 30% vote for in the 1932-1933 elections ). How about blaming them ? Were the French supposed to guess that some alt-right dictator went into power? Hitler's rise into power wasn't something sure that the Allies could predict. Hitler's rise to power was a set of specific conditions which were pretty unlikely ( If we could say it as so ), such as the Barmat scandal. And as for the economy, a lot of the problem was caused by the Kaiser himself, who had the bright idea to borrow money to fund the war effort, which would greatly help " spark " the post-war economical situation. They thought they would be able to pay it off by winning the war, which they did not, and hence Germany got in massive debts, which they payed partly by printing money, which in turn caused the infamous hyperinflation of the Weimar republic. The Versaille treaty only accelerated said hyperinflation. "As for the so called Polish Corridor, that was an act of impure spite - had Poland needed access to the sea that access could have been achieved from the eastern side of Poland and East Prussia retained as German land." I'm not sure by what you meant as " Eastern side of Poland " that would still be part of East Prussia. Or did you want Poland to go into baltic/russian land or something ? If so, that's ridiculous There were multiple reason why the Polish Corridor was given to the Polish. The majority of the population of the Polish Corridor was Polish ( And not German, and hence it's not rightful german ). Around 300k German ( Including soldiers and such ) vs 500k Polish. Also, putting it as a " act of impure spite " is quite inacurrate.
@@bastobasto4866 Serbia was the instigator which pushed Austria into conflict and Germany was honour bound to come to Austria's aid. Russia was bound to back Serbia and France and Britain were bound to back Russia. The Treaty of Versailles was manifestly unjust in its blaming Germany. You talk about the hard done by French - consider the aggressions of Louis X1V and Napoleon and face the fact that the Germans felt the heel of France before Waterloo finally stopped that insane little Corporal in 1815. Consider that a German on the streets of Berlin after 1918 had to step into the gutter if a French soldier walked past. 1939 was the natural consequence of 1918.
@@bastobasto4866 A large chunk of the East German population were Germanised Poles who'd been assimilated after Poland had been partitioned. That said, the Baltic Coast had been a German and Germanised region going back to the middle ages where the Polish Crown had encouraged German migration to deal with the pagan Wends and Balts and later Hanseatic League. There hadn't been a Polish sea presence to restore, the corridor and Danzig were about the old British foreign policy of not allowing one Continental power to have too much power. There was nothing moral about the decision, they wanted to weaken Germany because they posed a threat to the status quo, much like they sided with the Ottomans against the Russians to prevent the Tsar taking advantage of a weakened Ottoman Empire in the mid 19th century. The British would certainly never have tolerated an English speaking and ostensibly British population being siphoned off from them to be put under the control of foreign cultures which exactly was the case with Tyrol and Alsace where the local populations still spoke their regional German language
Wilhelm should have never been deposed and Prussia should never have been destroyed. Yes the man had faults but his character was destroyed and his legacy was tarnished by entente propaganda painting him as an incompetent fool.
“Should have, would have” is just a game - nobody can tell what would have happened, for the better or for the worse. Had Prussia still existed, what about the kingdoms of Bavaria, Wüttenberg and other southern territories? They weren't part of Prussia. And what about the Austrian empire? After all, the destiny of both Prussia and the Austrian realm used to go hand in hand, in rivalry and in unity... would or should it also have still existed? Is there a place in the XXI for empires and kings? Prussia was a supra-national realm, which included territories which were not German by nature, language or allegiance, unlike Germany which is in fact just that. What about other historical marks, such as the Hanseatic League? Should they have been retained alive? What about older empires? The Holy Roman? Fact is that there is no such thing as "should have never", history changes according to circumstance, Wilhelm's downfall was not better or worse than any other king’s, emperor’s or prince’s in history, the difference is that in happened recently and is therefore closer to our heart. Either than that, I prefer to be a part of a federal state, even at the cost (or maybe due to the cost) of the horrible events which took place eight decades ago. But that's me.
Uhmmm Prussia wasn't dissolved until the end of WWII by the Supreme Allied Council. Refer to the Kingdom of Prussia when talking about Imperial Germany.
Wilhelm wasnt the brighest, being quite incompetent when it comes to diplomacy, Bismarck warned that a war was likely to happen should Wilhelm keep his intentions of challenging Russia, and what happened? Germany went to war against France and Russia and by marching through Belgium brilliantly brought the most powerful empire in history to the entente, thats kind of idiocy.
@@jonataspereira1691 Actually it was Wilhelm’s father who really drove the final nail in the coffin for the Russo-German alliance. His father took Germany in a more pro-Austrian approach. Wilhelm actually tried desperately to restore the alliance with Russia. He tried using personal diplomacy with his cousin who as children he was quite close with. This failed because the German government and French government were quite at odds with each other. Nicholas was an easily impressionable man and Wilhelm was limited by the constraints of the constitution and his government. He also wasn’t incompetent either as he was an excellent domestic peacetime monarch. Bismarck was a great but deeply flawed person. Everyone acts like he’s some sort of unquestionable savant which he was not. A lot of his own success had to do with luck as well. An example of Wilhelm’s skill would be how early in his reign there was a large coal miner’s’ strike in Westphalia. Bismarck wanted to bring the army to harshly crush them. This likely would have triggered some sort of Civil War or uprising in Germany. Wilhelm however peacefully disarmed the situation and mediated a settlement. He was quite sympathetic to the workers and had viewed the business owners as greedy. This earned him massive popularity within Germany and international acclaim. Also his supposed foreign policy blunders were in a large part part of Entente propaganda selectively editing his quotes and looking at them without context.
Well real talk; Kaiser Wilhelm bears as much responsibility in losing the war along with his Generals. First of all, if he did not willingly gave Austria-Hungary the Blank Cheque, or simply pressure them into lowering their demands off of Serbia, then Germany and the entire world would have been different.
The Tsardom fashioned itself as Protector of the Slavs. I'm sure they would have used even the slightest aggression as a cause for war. Nothing he did would have prevented that.
Well those demand couldn’t have been that harsh since Serbia accepted every singe one except an Austro-Hungarian lead investigation into the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
While I think in terms of looks and the way he carries himself, the way he talks, Sylvester Groth to me plays a more convincing interpretation. But the emotions, the inside values, the soul, the opinions, the actual man. That is what Christopher Plummer brought to life.
Damn. It's just so depressing especially the sorrow the Kaiser lived with for the rest of his life. He tried, he tried all the best he could to benefit the people of the Fatherland and protect his people. Only for allies to outnumber and get the better of him, and here we are now in the Nazi Era the Kaiser has to suffer through in a country that isn't true anymore. Pitiful 😔
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There's actually a character I have for DC Comics and he will make his first appearance as soon as my book is published. His name is General War man he was an unknown German who is supposedly the secret successor of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. On his world he killed Hitler because he considered his demeanor to be that of a madman. He even succeeded in winning the war for the Kaiser. And with the help of German doctors and engineers they managed to collect all their fallen soldiers including the bodies of their enemies and they brought factories to life turning they're falling and their enemies into steam powered soldiers and as time progressed he decided to upgrade his soldiers from steam-powered to nuclear power. Smallest inspirations came from the king's man, the exception, the wolf Brigade, and my favorite Zack Snyder film Sucker Punch
Прекрасно играл Кристофер Пламмер своего персонажа- Вильгельма Кайзера в фильме " Исключение "или " Последний поцелуй Кайзера ". Вообще-то он все роли хорошо играл, но эта одна из последних перед его уходом от нас! Здесь он настоящий старый аристократ- бывший правитель!!! Замечательный артист шекспировской театральной школы начала 20 столетия!!! Разносторонне талантлив был, трудолюбив и очень остроумен!!! Вечная память и наша любовь💞💏💘 канадскому артисту Кристоферу Пламмеру!!! 🌹🎬🎼🎹🌹
Wilhelm II: Yeah, yeah, your father died in the war, your mother died in poverty, that is all very tragic. BUT do you not think we should rather speak about ME and my tragic fate?!
Very good acting, but the Kaiser is wearing the wrong Pour le Merite, with oak Leaves. . .The Kaiser was Royal Chancellor of the Order and had crossed swords, and the cross was the larger Grand Cross size (without the center portrait), not the standard size PLM. . .
@@darkawakening01 July 5, 1914... German empire, led by Kaiser Wilhelm II, unconditionally gives its full, military support to Austria-Hungary in its war with Serbia. 1912: Kaiser Wilhelm II instructs Generals Helmuth Von Moltke & Alfred Von Tirpitz that Austria must “act vigorously against the foreign Slavs,” and that “if Russia should support the Serbs, war would be inevitable for us.” July 7, 1914: German Chancellor Von Bethmann Hollweg writes in his diary: “Russia has become a nightmare, and the German generals say that there must be war before it’s too late.” (in response to the recent industrial developments within the Russian empire... especially expansion of its railways.) June 30, 1914: Kaiser Wilhelm II writes in his diary: “The Serbs must be disposed of, and soon.” July 5, 1914: Kaiser Wilhelm says to the Austrian Ambassador: “The Austrians can count on German support should war exist between Austria & Serbia.” July 28, 1914: Kaiser Wilhelm is briefed in full on the investigations into Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination. He is told that there is zero evidence showing involvement by the Serbian government in the plot. He is also made aware that efforts by the Serbian government to involve the international tribunal at The Hague for further investigations, as well as efforts by the Russian government to peacefully resolve hostilities with German, Austrian, Serbian, & Russian diplomats. He nonetheless does not rescind his promise to support the Austrians militarily should they declare war. Shortly after, Austrian Chancellor Conrad Von Hotzendorf, along with Emperor Franz Josef declare war on Serbia & Russia. Germany follows suit in spite of everything they were informed about... and in spite of knowing that France & England will likely support the Russians. Case & point... Wilhelm played arguably the biggest role in the escalation of the conflict. He led numerous efforts in the preceding 30 years at growing Germany’s army & navy to offset the balance of power in Europe. He could have easily urged restraint to the Austrians, and not so eagerly pledged his military support prior to an international tribunal. He continued the war long after it was clear that Germany could not win militarily. He actively encouraged harassment on the high seas of merchant vessels; resulting in the deaths of thousands of civilians. Still wanna defend him?
@@nicknoga564 No, I´m not disputing that the German Empire contributed a lot to the way things went down. But the majority of historians nowadays propagate a more-or-less equally shared fault for all the great powers. Every slight caused by one side was answered with immediate escalation by the other. There were no cool heads around in the concert of the great powers at that time. But (falsely) blaming the German Empire solely for WWI was one of the main reasons WWII was just around the corner. And just focusing on Germany by listing only their share of provocative acts while ignoring the Entente is very narrow-minded, Sir.
@@thesilverreich3947 The Emperor wasn’t killed... it was the Archduke. And there was no evidence ever found that the assassin had links to the Serbian government; rather to a Terrorist cell called the Black Hand. Serbia desperately tried to appease an irate Austrian government afterward; asking only that the case be tried using international arbitration. But the Austrians were dead-set on declaring war without proof of Serbian involvement in the assassination, and Wilhelm II foolishly backed them. He himself was desperate for a war with the Russians (which war with Serbia would certainly precipitate), and this assassination was the flimsy justification he went with. He listened to war-monger generals who foolishly believed they could implement the Schlieffen plan to win a 2-front war with France & Russia when any sane person would know that it was suicide. Wilhelm had a history of provocation with the western powers in relation to naval confrontations with England over colonial Africa. The man wanted war. He got one.
Imagine if one night. During one of Hitler's scheduled speeches. Right before he walks in the announcer calls out, Presenting his royal majesty, Emperor Wilhelm the 2nd. And he walks in with his own personal guards, gives a speech and wins back the people of germany.
And so all the Belgian civilians murdered in 1914 died by the orders of German gentlemen. I think this was not a great comfort for them and their families.
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Fact: Christopher Plummer was 12 years old when the real Wilhelm II died.
(11) Because Kaiser Died In June And Christopher Was Born In December.
@@EEEEAH472 correct
A coincidence too
@@EEEEAH472yes, December 12 years before june
True, he was born in 1929 and Wilhelm II died in 1941. And Plummer died exactly 80 years after Kaiser Wilhelm II
RIP Christopher Plummer
He did a great job as the Kaiser.
He did a great job in every role
oooh, ya, great job. always like his acting
@@ericvantassell6809very good in Triple Cross.
Y@@ericvantassell6809
Plummer really does bear a striking resemblance to Emperor Wilhelm II in his later years.
Well, I think a beard does not the Kaiser make, but actors almost never look like the historical persons they portray.
Put a long grey beard on me and I would look like the kaiser as well.
@@A_10_PaAng_111 Put me in a bakery and I’ll look like bread.
Not only later, he was ALWAYS like this. Today he would be diagnosed Behavioral disorder and put on meds
Not really.
"Not to say i told you so..."
-Otto von Bismarck
But I did told you so...
Btw Bismarck after the unification made every effort on the book to keep the peace bc Germany was too strong and he feared the other nations would unite against Germany as it turned out to be the case
Otto is the father of the mess Germany plunged into - he directed the aggression against Denmark then he shivved the Austro-Hungarians and then his sneaky stunt with that telegram suckering the French. His next move to annex Alsace-Lorraine and the huge war indemnity were just more punches he designed....now after all that he's the voice of peace....he lorded it over Kaiser Wilhelm's grandfather and the brief reign of his father. Clown thought he was Edward R. Murrow or MacArthur - indispensable - no one is.
@@rusoviettovarich9221 Bismarck is not to blame for the war. He manipulated France to unify Germany, sure, but afterward, he ensured peace through his complex web of treaties and allyships. It was only when Wilhelm let Russia slip away by ignoring the Reinsurance Treaty that everything fell apart. If Bismarck had remained in power, the war never would've happened.
@@stilicho8987 Bismarck certainly didn't want the war, but the point must be made that he created the military and political imbalance that helped bring it about - France's implacable hostility after 1870, and the eventual rapprochement between France, Russia, and Britain. To put it another way, he may have been a genius for maintaining the peace for so long, but the fact that he needed to be a genius shows how precarious that peace was.
Its uncanny how much Christopher Plummer looks like the real Kaiser Wilhelm II, combined with how great an actor Plummer is you really feel like it was the real Kaiser getting it all off his chest about losing WW1.
I was the kaiser
@@markoprskalo6127Yeah and my dad killed Hitler
@@TF2Scout..wait your dad was hitler?
Have you seen Tom Hollander?? He looks like all 3 cousins
@@Carpediem357 great actor! Was amazing in John Adams as King George III, such a short but great performance! Also was great in the 2015 film The Promise as an Armenian clown in a Turkish forced labor camp building the Baghdad Railway.
0:13 Wilhelm was proud for a second of the captains military heritage until that second where he realized the passive aggression and resentment in the officers voice.
@Commander Cody R u serious? He led his people into a multi front war. Millions died for his arrogance. He was'nt betrayed he failed as a leader. His demise was one of the many prices Germany paid.
@@Kamizudude What could be attributed as his arrogance is far more applicable to the military-industrial complex of Germany especially within those war-time years; the nation had become a complete military dictatorship wherein the highest echelons of the military essentially ruled the entire nation through decree whilst rarely appraising the Kaiser. I'd argue that had the Kaiser been bolder and asserted over Ludendorff or Hindenburg he would've simply fallen victim to a type of palace coup, maybe even a tacit endorsement from the military to parliamentary bodies to attempt limiting his powers over the state. As we've seen from their later careers, neither Ludendorff nor Hindenburg showed exceptional competence in civilian affairs when separate from the Kaiser, the former often being relegated to an emotional mess on a frequent basis even before the end of the war and the latter only held significance as being a unifying symbol of the nation which wasn't up to him to determine and is likely a result of the Kaiser taking the ultimate blame for everything.
@@Kamizudude Germany didn't start WW1. We aided the Austrians, one thing led to another. Wilhelm wasn't a bad Kaiser.
@@thimble347 Except that technocrats like Stinnes realized the war was a disaster-he advised the Kaiser not to enter it.
@@genekelly8467 An inevitable disaster, the geopolitical reality of the time was not going to permit that Germany allow the potential for Austrian territory to be swallowed up by Russia nor would the allies permit both Austria and Germany to wage a unified war against Russia while they sat it out. The war in Serbia determined the outcome, not the Kaiser.
Christopher Plummer. He's incredible in every role he plays.
""I shall blow you out of the stars."
He was the greatest canadian actor.
He also plays as arngier from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
great actor, even in waterloo.
"Stop that useless noise! You'll hurt yourself."
Out of his two most famous cousins Tsar Nicholas and George the 5th, the Kaiser lived the longest, but because of this he gets to see how harshly everyone would judge him
Little Germans judging a Prussian. How ironic.
Germany was unified thanks to Prussian blood, sweat and tears. Now they are evicted from the homeland they helped build.
It maybe Gdansk and Kaliningrad on a map but it will always be Danzig and Konigsberg in our hearts!
@@MinecraftMasterNo1
it will be gdankstan and kalininstan in another 100 years .-)
@@MinecraftMasterNo1 Your whole comment is ironic.
1. You refer to Germans as little people, while at the same time bragging about Prussians being instrumental in creating a unified Germany.
Which would make them a part of the "little" people..
2. You whine about the loss about Prussia, despite not being old enough to actully have lived in it.
Or known anything about it.
3. Yeah, they were evicted from their homeland.
You know like how the slavs of Prussia were expelled by the Teutonic Order..
That's what happens when you lose a world war... That's life..
@@Orcawhale1
Little Germans refer to the princes of the disbanded HRE who were not part of Prussia or Austria. Are you willfully ignorant or simply dumb?
Am I not allowed to condemn Hitler or Stalin because I didn't live through it? Am I not allowed to show sympathy for the millions who died in the 30 Years War because I wasn't there?
Jews shouldn't complain about being gassed. That's what happen when you lose an election. That's life.
Germans shouldn't complain about the Danzig Massacre that actually started WW2. That's what happens when Germany has a Furher. That's life.
You shouldn't ever complain about anything in your life. you whiny bastard. A man shoved his dick inside a woman and you got shitted out nine months later. That's life.
Did this scene, in which the late and last German emperor figures, remembered you of a present American leader? About kaiser Wihelm II a respected historian wrote the following: « Historians have frequently stressed the role of Wilhelm's personality in shaping his reign. Thus, Thomas Nipperdey concludes he was: "....gifted, with a quick understanding, sometimes brilliant, with a taste for the modern,-technology, industry, science-but at the same time superficial, hasty, restless, unable to relax, without any deeper level of seriousness, without any desire for hard work or drive to see things through to the end, without any sense of sobriety, for balance and boundaries, or even for reality and real problems, uncontrollable and scarcely capable of learning from experience, desperate for applause and success,-as Bismarck said early on in his life, he wanted every day to be his birthday-romantic, sentimental and theatrical, unsure and arrogant, with an immeasurably exaggerated self-confidence and desire to show off, a juvenile cadet, who never took the tone of the officers' mess out of his voice, and brashly wanted to play the part of the supreme warlord, full of panicky fear of a monotonous life without any diversions, and yet aimless, pathological in his hatred against his English mother.".... » [From the Wikipedia article on Wihelm II] We are fortunate enough to live during more democratic times when 'unsure and arrogant' autocrats are not allowed to plunge their countries in insane wars.
Ironically, it was a kindness that Wilhelm died when he did. Operation Barbarossa began just a few weeks after he died. Had he lived to see the end of the war, he would have seen the Soviet Union sweep into Germany, Berlin razed to the ground, Germany divided into two puppet states, and the dissolution of Prussia. To a man like him, it would have been utterly unbearable.
He died during the peak of Germany's military record too, bless his soul.
Heil Kaiser Dir 😢
God didn't let my kaiser see his fatherland's fate 😢
Thank God that the Kaiser did not see that
@@KohinurBegum-nr7nv r u a German
Christopher is really among the last few classics still around, we really should cherish the time when he is still active.
That did not age well, sir.
He dead
💀
He went to the other room and quietly sang Edel Weiss to himself.
Too few likes for such a funny comment. Well played sir, well played...
Edel weiss is a fake austrian song doood
@@tbcwdeveloperteam7441 Sang by Captain VonTrap
Intro of the series
I believe you meant *Preußens Gloria*
They lost me the war! They lost me my country...
What a painful lines, what amazing acting!!
Plummer was one of the bests. R.I.P.
Plummer was a chad at acting. He just fit the old Kaiser so well. Nice job man, rest in peace 🙏
I think what I shall do for Christopher Plummer is I will put a small but honorable message in my story for DC Comics and it will say as a tribute to Christopher Plummer.
he lost himself the war (and did a genocide lmao)
Not really crying but, I teared up. I get where the kaiser is coming from. Also, I hate seeing old men get angry or sad. It makes me sad as well
We all cry for the Kaiser man we cry for the Kaiser😫😫😫
We too
He can cry like a baby all he wants, he didn't have to suffer as the guy did most of his life. He can take it like man, but he takes it like a whiny bitchy queeny sack of spoiled rotten shit. Then blames others for losing a war that was rather idiotic in the first place to have entered. It was his fault ultimately for entering into war. If you want to be king or president or a representative be prepared to take responsibility for such power. Or don't do it.
You can't do great things and take credit for it, then do shit things and not take credit for that too.
He was a human being here.
It's in stark contrast to the later scene when Himmler talks about murdering children while still eating.... Tears me up as well
@@jmitterii2 Actually, as a child he had suffered from his birth defect, he had to go through several surgeries, they bound his arm in animal corpses, used shock therapy on him, his mother was ashamed of his disability and neglected him, his father was barely present, and his teachers were very strict and high demanding. Because of that he grew a very arrogant and impulsive personality, and during his years as Kaiser, he would get his reputation in trouble alot. And then after the war, he lost his fatherland, his empire. In exile, he could do nothing but watch his homeland get completely f*cked and then taken over by nazis.
Absolutely nails the personality of the Kaiser
Did this scene, in which the late and last German emperor figures, remembered you of a present American leader? About kaiser Wihelm II a respected historian wrote the following: « Historians have frequently stressed the role of Wilhelm's personality in shaping his reign. Thus, Thomas Nipperdey concludes he was: "....gifted, with a quick understanding, sometimes brilliant, with a taste for the modern,-technology, industry, science-but at the same time superficial, hasty, restless, unable to relax, without any deeper level of seriousness, without any desire for hard work or drive to see things through to the end, without any sense of sobriety, for balance and boundaries, or even for reality and real problems, uncontrollable and scarcely capable of learning from experience, desperate for applause and success,-as Bismarck said early on in his life, he wanted every day to be his birthday-romantic, sentimental and theatrical, unsure and arrogant, with an immeasurably exaggerated self-confidence and desire to show off, a juvenile cadet, who never took the tone of the officers' mess out of his voice, and brashly wanted to play the part of the supreme warlord, full of panicky fear of a monotonous life without any diversions, and yet aimless, pathological in his hatred against his English mother.".... » [From the Wikipedia article on Wihelm II] We are fortunate enough to live during more democratic times when 'unsure and arrogant' autocrats are not allowed to plunge their countries in insane wars.
How do you know?
@@MalAnders94 The scene, that is, the fictional Wihelm II's tantrum portrayed in the film, rings (although fictional).as true as it corresponds to Nipperdey's description of Wihelm II, as witnessed by many trustworthy people, taken from dozens of non contradictory and independent of each other statements, duly documented and contemporary. And it definitely matches the description of Trump as witnessed by many trustworthy people, taken from dozens of non contradictory and independent of each other statements, duly documented and contemporary. As much History (and Law also, by the way) works, it works thus. The rest is mere hearsay and gossip. And good historical fiction needs to have a good basis upon reality not upon sole phantasy. Then I think one can reasonably argue that this fictional scene "absolutely nails the personality of the Kaiser". I rest my case. :-).
Exactly! He was quite difficult to deal with.
@@joaquimdantas63 It's based on propaganda then. Could have said just that.
A great performance from Jai Courtney in this film.
I didn't know him, he is so charming ! 🥰❤
First time I noticed him was in the series Spartacus, he played the "volunteer" Gladiator, who needed to pay down some debts for the sake of his family.
I always look at great men like this and think how horrible it must of been for then to live long enough to see how history would judge them.
He was not a great man !
He was part of an elite that destroyed our culture in a sea of blood.
I will always reserve my judgement of the Kaiser, I am not him and never was in his posistion. I will say that due to his fathers untimely demise to throat cancer ill prepared Wilhelm for the Rigors of the World Stage, he needed to mature more. I mean who fires Bismarck? If Kaiser Friedrich III survived, Imperial Germany would still be a thing of today.
@RetroSupporter93
But he had a plan! He always has a plan!
@RetroSupporter93 idk about Russia offering an alliance to Germany, but i do know that do to existing alliances, when Austria declared war on Serbia, Russia had to intervene to defend their ally Serbia, and Germany had to intervene because them and Austria had an agreement to stand together in the event of a Russian declaration of war. What I would call dumb was the Idea to go west and bring Britain and France into it.
@@warhawk9566 you are wrong, france was attacking germany as germany and austria were at war with russia, which was frances ally. Germany went through belgium to oberwhelm france and this brought great britain in, which was arguably inevitable, but nonetheless sooner. Nonetheless, might have still been worth it, germamy would have probably been stalemated in elsass
It’s amazing how the whole XX century history is tied to Wilhelm's father premature death. A throat cancer just sealed the destiny of hundreds of millions of people. It’s depressing.
Frederic III. is considered to have been greatly overrated by modern german historians. He wouldn't have been a that much more progressive ruler and wouldn't have fundamentely changed the german society. Also, it's not like he magically got throat cancer, he worked very hard for that.
@@Tigerfox_He was a traitor anyway.
@@uberspessmann9604 because his wife is a british royalty?
True. But if you want to look at history that way, the lads who made the cigarettes and/or booze that gave him throat cancer have a lot to answer for.
@@bayuadhi3671 Because he was "progressive".
This is where real men cry
Correct
0:54
The Kaiser did nothing wrong,
CHANGE MY MIND
I cri
Real wimp men
Notch after finding out all mentions of him were removed from Minecraft (2019, Colourised)
The Pullé I gave my life to this game, and this is my thanks? My team, they betrayed me, Jeb, Microsoft, where where they, WHERE WERE THEY? They lost me my game, they lost me my pride
Notch had it coming though. He made hundreds of ignorant and dumb tweets.
"They lost me my country"
@@kazuhiramiller7491 He wasn't wrong in any of them.
Minecraft went down the toilet after b1.7.3
Chris Plummer says that what an actor should have to be truly "Great" is The Rage. The Rage that not only scares the shit out of his fellow thespians on the stage or on set, but the audience, too. The audience is the true arbiter of "acting!"
Considering the power he had on hand, he would be a monster in the arm wrestling competition,
RIP Christopher Plummer
Wilhelm enjoyed cutting down trees as a hobby so his arm strength would be terrific.
@@t.wcharles2171 Karate practitioner breaks wood planks with bare hands, Wilhelm II cuts down a redwood tree with one arm
@@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 indeed similar arm strength required.
It’s always “how often do you think of the Roman Empire?” And never “how often do you think of the German empire?”
Plummies at it AGAIN!!! Chewing the scenery: the props, the set, the lighting, the other actors, the craft table...
Now I want to play as the Germa Reich in Hoi4 and restore the German Empire-
;)
Unify with austria
"Purge this Nazi filth from our land!"
@@timesnewlogan2032 yes
@Silver Wolf tf?
0:43 the rage begins
Just think of it : Captain Von Trapp of the 60s to the Kaiser in the 21st Century - what a journey across the spectrum for a great actor! 😮
RIP Christoopher Plummer such an amazing actor
This looks like a sequel to Fall of Eagles. Christopher Plummer plays the same exact character as Barry Foster.
You realize Kaiser Wilhelm was real right?
Technically, every historical movie belongs to the same cinematic universe.
@@JD-Media I'm pretty sure he does, he just meant that this acts like a pretty good follow-up to the TV series Fall of Eagles (which is also about Kaiser Wilhelm II and the other European Monarchs/Dynasties).
@@rct3terminator1000 I just pretend it does.
@@JD-Mediayoo it’s the man himself before he started making videos
I understand where the kaiser is coming from in this clip, being a historian, and the fact that with the treaty of Versailles neither Hapsburg nor hollenzern had a apot on the negotiating tables, and the allied powers completely shifted the blame on the losers of the conflict, when in reality, on many peoples eyes on both sides, including Winston Churchill himself, that every nation that partook in the war to end all wars shared a piece of the blame for the horror in it, and that everyone there should have had a bill to pay, rather then just Germany, which had a bill she didnt pay off until 2010. In the 1920s, even the US realised where Germany was headed, and offered 20 million of her money in 1920 to the War reparations office in Paris, to ease the load on germany. If the Kaiser could have stayed in power, Germany done the way it was done in West Germany in the Mid 1950s under General Marshall's not Morgenthaus Plan, Then Hitler nor the Corrupt Weimar would have never came to power.
The thing is there were supporters in Germany that hoped he would return,
US were pretty much interest in the war economy and the Fat Minister screwed up Europe even more by allowing the Soviets in, did you know certain countires that had to live under communism yoke had large birth defects,
Yes, Hitler was WW 1 veteran, he was in hospital, badly injured in his head, lost a lot of his fellow soldiers in battkefield, and when they announced this in radio, he feels betrayed. Germany had to pay basically everything, and I read that this is actually one of his reason of his racist hate towards Jewish (I think his injured head also influenced him to madness) because most of the European elite bankers, well, 'merchant of death' in war, back then mostly were Jewish, you know The Rothschild and friends.
The internal hate is crazy, because I read somewhere that Hitler actually has Jewish blood, to think that he is not even pure Aryan but obsessed with it.
There's a reason why million people, a nation, fall into a charismatic madman like Hitler. He's understand people's pain, especially commoners. Imagine if Hitler were born in digital era, where social medias exist. Having a podcast and everything. Tons of propaganda theory and modern psywar today in Communication field (including journalistic, PR, broadcasting, and all) heavily influenced by NAZI knowledge. Let's hope we wouldn't repeating History and let another charismatic madman into raise, a new Hitler, a new cult, that lead everybody into nightmare.
@@aubreysong populism is dangerous thing buddy, several president won because of it,
BRAVO !!!
As a (claimed, at any rate) historian I would have expected you to know better. Pray tell us, what part of the blame did the UK or France share? Did they give anyone carte blanche to pursue imperialist policies in Europe? Did they attempt to use gunboat diplomacy against another great power? Did they declare war right and left even against neutral countries? Did they use unrestricted submarine warfare, even when warned by those countries that were affected not to do so? Germany did all those things and half a dozen more. "Everyone was to blame" you say, yet only Germany seems to have pushed for the war and escalated it.
It is also a complete lie that war reparations somehow crippled Germany. The country saw massive economic growth in the 1920s, only they took too many loans. At the end of the day Germany never really paid its reparations anyway.
Shame on you sir. You are thoroughly misinformed on a subject matter you profess to be an expert in.
Plummer is amazing and a lot of attention was paid to details, but the Kaiser and his wife would have been addressed as "Your Majesty" rather "Your Highness" even after the abdication of the Kaiser
It's true
We always forget about the one who lost
And make fun of them.
People always try to get closer to the person when they are great but forgets about them when they fall.
Christopher Plumer was a great actor,since his youth.
May God rest him in peace.
I love this movie. This is actually where i got my profile picture from. The cast is phenomenal. The budget for the movie was small yet it seems like the filmmakers knew how to spend wisely. The story is simple and follows your usual plot points; however, it highlights a certain part of history that is often overlooked.
What movie is this?
@@gigaomnom3849The Exception
Whats the name of the film?
@@PDRstudiosAviation Its called "The Exception".
Actually the Kaiser is not wrong. German generals pushed for the war and when it was lost, they picked up their ball and went home, leaving it to the civilian government to surrender.
for better or worse when you are the monarch of a nation no matter whether things are going great or going horribly, it will be seen as your doing.
Not only that, but they had effectively taken all power from him during the war.
At 0:42 You can see Wilhelm banging the table with his right hand. However, at 1:15, if you pay close attention, you can see that he bangs the table with his left hand despite the fact that his left hand was withered.
Poor old Willie
kemas abdullah poor dead Nicky...
@Tsar Nicholas II To be fair, Will was desperate to end the war with a German victory, if he had won, at least Nicky would not have died in vein.
I would like someone to read this comment out of context
what about Georgy
Did this scene, in which the late and last German emperor figures, remembered you of a present American leader? About kaiser Wihelm II a respected historian wrote the following: « Historians have frequently stressed the role of Wilhelm's personality in shaping his reign. Thus, Thomas Nipperdey concludes he was: "....gifted, with a quick understanding, sometimes brilliant, with a taste for the modern,-technology, industry, science-but at the same time superficial, hasty, restless, unable to relax, without any deeper level of seriousness, without any desire for hard work or drive to see things through to the end, without any sense of sobriety, for balance and boundaries, or even for reality and real problems, uncontrollable and scarcely capable of learning from experience, desperate for applause and success,-as Bismarck said early on in his life, he wanted every day to be his birthday-romantic, sentimental and theatrical, unsure and arrogant, with an immeasurably exaggerated self-confidence and desire to show off, a juvenile cadet, who never took the tone of the officers' mess out of his voice, and brashly wanted to play the part of the supreme warlord, full of panicky fear of a monotonous life without any diversions, and yet aimless, pathological in his hatred against his English mother.".... » [From the Wikipedia article on Wihelm II] We are fortunate enough to live during more democratic times when 'unsure and arrogant' autocrats are not allowed to plunge their countries in insane wars.
I'm glad that in recent years people have begun to understand that Kaiser Wilhelm II was almost as close to the good guy in war as it gets.
He defended his allies, he defended his country, and when his general staff all but made him a figurehead he took the blame for everything they did and still tried to be there for his people. He loved his country to the very end, and when it mattered most, they turned their backs on him. But he never did.
Hopefully one day he gets his wish of rightfully being returned to his homeland, even if the new Monarchy is just for show.
Incredibly Plummer has a passing resemblance to the Kaiser who was related to King George V as Grandson of Queen Victoria.
Both the King and the Kaiser were also related to the Russian Tsar
and Tsar and Kaiser are both evolutions of the word Caesar
He was halfway through his tirade before I realized he was supposed to be the Kaiser. What a terrific actor. I need to find this movie somewhere.
Me raging after loosing a game and blaming my teammates: 1:07
1:09 when I'm the only player who carries the losing noob team
@@raptor_zero9429 me in war thunder realistic war battles 1.0-4.5
@@romeoroberts8647 this was exactly what I thought
@@raptor_zero9429 when you're helping a noob enemy that really needs help, but instead they kill you
Imagine his reaction to Modern day germany.
Imagine his reaction to East Germany
I'm sure he'd find Prinz Georg Friedrich and kick his arsch and say wtf dude? Take it back
Germany is still a major power, just because they're not gooning around in tanks doesn't mean they're weak
i think he'd be proud that germany's still going strong, though he'll prolly be dissapointed when he sees the state of the bundeswehr 😐
But someone else would be disappointed a certain person
“my navy betrayed me” -1908s German Navy Prinz Eugen Fighthing with Britain
“THEY LOST ME TO THE WAR” -1918s When The War Is Over And German Empire , And Prussian Was Defeated Their Own Fatherland
About the navy, I'm pretty sure he talks about the 1918 Kiel mutiny, where the sailors, not the worst treated in the conflict, refused to follow orders and revolt against the imperial and military authority
He's talking about the mutiny of 1918 in Kiel, the German High Seas fleet was ordered one last suicidal attack on the Royal Navy, the sailors simply refused to sail to their own deaths.
I wish I will live long enough to see the day the Prussian people are no longer barred from the homeland they helped build.
It maybe Gdansk and Kaliningrad on a map but it will always be Danzig and Konigsberg in our hearts!
@@MinecraftMasterNo1 Sure, and Milan will be Celtic again one day. Not very realistic and considering Germany has one of the lowest birthrates in Europe there aren't even the numbers to Germanise those regions. Far more likely is that the Poles and Russians continue settling in Germany and Slavicise those areas the Turks aren't taking over.
The life of Wilhelm the second is a tragedy.
Had a crippled limb from birth that he was relentlessly reminded of by his own family.
Lost his father at a young age.
Had a troubled relationship with his mother his whole life.
Made awful political decisions that while definitely his own fault; could definitely be understood from the perspective of a man of his upbringing.
Led his country into an awful waste of a war.
Lost his throne, his people, his army and lived just long enough to see his home twisted into a fascist nightmare.
He led his people in the war, but he did not lead them to it, that he tried whole-heartedly to prevent
That and he had to watch as he fought his own family eventually seeing to the death of his Cousin due to the actions of his nation
Tragic Indeed
Pretty much what most people on the left don’t get is there’s a big difference between conservatives ideals and fascist ideas
He is why Germany fell to reactionaries, he is why tens of thousands of Namibians had their bloodlines wiped out.
Great acting from both Jai Courtney and most especially Christopher Plummer here. He made an EXCELLENT Kaiser
I think it's interesting that when the Kaiser is listing the names of those he feels betrayed him, he didn't mention Hindenburg.
Nor Mackensen
@@akessel92trainBecause Mackensen was probably the most loyal man in the world. As for Hindenburg, I believe Wilhelm had some degree of respect for him, although he didn’t prevent the collapse of the empire, he at least prevented a full on communist takeover and persecution of the royal family
@@PhilipTroubleMackensen wasn't as strategically involved as the other men mentioned. He was "just" a field commander leading several successful campaigns in the east, in serbia and Romania, not part of military high command.
Hindenburg kept the army from utterly collapsing as they withdrew from France and warned the Kaiser to leave Germany cuz he can't guarantee his protection so until the end Hindenburg stayed with the Kaiser until he can't
Fantastic actor all away around good to see Mr.Plummer acting again !👍👍👍👌🍷
Rest In Peace , Christopher Plummer
Wilhelm II and his staff just couldn't fill the boots of Bismarck, Von Moltke and the other old guard prussian leaders.
Good times create weak flawed men.
@SheputsterNot weak...but he was haughty, reckless and not cunning enough to be in the position he held.
That's far more onto his staff rather than his person, his military leadership was essentially ruling the entire nation by decree during the wartime years.
If the German military command actually collaborated they could have ended the war in stalemate and kept the Kaiser in power
Never would have happened. Germans always overestimate their military prowess, and they were hellbent on making everyone in the world turn against them.
They were the ones who said the war was lost militarily and asked the government to make peace.
Had the Kaiser been allowed to remain as a constitutional monarch there would have been no Hitler. I blame the allies and especially the vindictive French for 1939.
I wish I will live long enough to see the day the Prussian people are no longer barred from the homeland they helped build.
It maybe Gdansk and Kaliningrad on a map but it will always be Danzig and Konigsberg in our hearts!
@@MinecraftMasterNo1 I could not agree more. Each January 18th I fly the Imperial German flag for the 1871 Proclamation of the Second Reich under Bismark at the Versailles Hall of Mirrors. Revolutionary France was down after the Franco Prussian War and it should have stayed that way. As for the so called Polish Corridor, that was an act of impure spite - had Poland needed access to the sea that access could have been achieved from the eastern side of Poland and East Prussia retained as German land.
@@rogeredwarrddeshon5000 Germany had to give to France the same amount France had given after the loss of the Franco-Prussian war ( adjusted to inflation ). The germans had destroyed part of Belgium and France ( Whose economy's was completely ruined ), and had terrorized the local populace ( See : the Rape of Belgium )
The treaty was harsh, but not unfair. Were the Allies just supposed to give Germany a light slap on the wrist after all they've done ? Should they have let them keep all their territory, their military, and economy just as before the war and kept the status-quo? It would be stupid to think so. You need to look at it from the point of view at the time.
Germany would also most probably have done even harsher conditions anyway, as they planned to annex more resource rich regions and payments.
" I blame the allies and especially the vindictive French for 1939."
How about blaming the vindictive Germans for putting Hitler in power in the first place? I know full well that it was in great part due to the allies that Hitler managed to go into power, but I feel like a lot of ... German nationalists (?) like you like to forget that it's the German that put Hitler in place and that they had a choice over it ( Around 30% vote for in the 1932-1933 elections ). How about blaming them ?
Were the French supposed to guess that some alt-right dictator went into power? Hitler's rise into power wasn't something sure that the Allies could predict. Hitler's rise to power was a set of specific conditions which were pretty unlikely ( If we could say it as so ), such as the Barmat scandal.
And as for the economy, a lot of the problem was caused by the Kaiser himself, who had the bright idea to borrow money to fund the war effort, which would greatly help " spark " the post-war economical situation. They thought they would be able to pay it off by winning the war, which they did not, and hence Germany got in massive debts, which they payed partly by printing money, which in turn caused the infamous hyperinflation of the Weimar republic. The Versaille treaty only accelerated said hyperinflation.
"As for the so called Polish Corridor, that was an act of impure spite - had Poland needed access to the sea that access could have been achieved from the eastern side of Poland and East Prussia retained as German land."
I'm not sure by what you meant as " Eastern side of Poland " that would still be part of East Prussia. Or did you want Poland to go into baltic/russian land or something ? If so, that's ridiculous
There were multiple reason why the Polish Corridor was given to the Polish. The majority of the population of the Polish Corridor was Polish ( And not German, and hence it's not rightful german ). Around 300k German ( Including soldiers and such ) vs 500k Polish.
Also, putting it as a " act of impure spite " is quite inacurrate.
@@bastobasto4866 Serbia was the instigator which pushed Austria into conflict and Germany was honour bound to come to Austria's aid. Russia was bound to back Serbia and France and Britain were bound to back Russia. The Treaty of Versailles was manifestly unjust in its blaming Germany.
You talk about the hard done by French - consider the aggressions of Louis X1V and Napoleon and face the fact that the Germans felt the heel of France before Waterloo finally stopped that insane little Corporal in 1815. Consider that a German on the streets of Berlin after 1918 had to step into the gutter if a French soldier walked past.
1939 was the natural consequence of 1918.
@@bastobasto4866 A large chunk of the East German population were Germanised Poles who'd been assimilated after Poland had been partitioned. That said, the Baltic Coast had been a German and Germanised region going back to the middle ages where the Polish Crown had encouraged German migration to deal with the pagan Wends and Balts and later Hanseatic League. There hadn't been a Polish sea presence to restore, the corridor and Danzig were about the old British foreign policy of not allowing one Continental power to have too much power. There was nothing moral about the decision, they wanted to weaken Germany because they posed a threat to the status quo, much like they sided with the Ottomans against the Russians to prevent the Tsar taking advantage of a weakened Ottoman Empire in the mid 19th century. The British would certainly never have tolerated an English speaking and ostensibly British population being siphoned off from them to be put under the control of foreign cultures which exactly was the case with Tyrol and Alsace where the local populations still spoke their regional German language
Brilliant. Plummer may finally get his Oscar.
Both Kaiser Wilhelm II and Arngeir from Skyrim were played by the same man. RIP Christopher Plummer
Brilliant acting by Plummer
Wilhelm should have never been deposed and Prussia should never have been destroyed. Yes the man had faults but his character was destroyed and his legacy was tarnished by entente propaganda painting him as an incompetent fool.
“Should have, would have” is just a game - nobody can tell what would have happened, for the better or for the worse. Had Prussia still existed, what about the kingdoms of Bavaria, Wüttenberg and other southern territories? They weren't part of Prussia. And what about the Austrian empire? After all, the destiny of both Prussia and the Austrian realm used to go hand in hand, in rivalry and in unity... would or should it also have still existed? Is there a place in the XXI for empires and kings? Prussia was a supra-national realm, which included territories which were not German by nature, language or allegiance, unlike Germany which is in fact just that. What about other historical marks, such as the Hanseatic League? Should they have been retained alive? What about older empires? The Holy Roman? Fact is that there is no such thing as "should have never", history changes according to circumstance, Wilhelm's downfall was not better or worse than any other king’s, emperor’s or prince’s in history, the difference is that in happened recently and is therefore closer to our heart. Either than that, I prefer to be a part of a federal state, even at the cost (or maybe due to the cost) of the horrible events which took place eight decades ago. But that's me.
Willy Weiß bring back the Kaiser
Uhmmm Prussia wasn't dissolved until the end of WWII by the Supreme Allied Council. Refer to the Kingdom of Prussia when talking about Imperial Germany.
Wilhelm wasnt the brighest, being quite incompetent when it comes to diplomacy, Bismarck warned that a war was likely to happen should Wilhelm keep his intentions of challenging Russia, and what happened? Germany went to war against France and Russia and by marching through Belgium brilliantly brought the most powerful empire in history to the entente, thats kind of idiocy.
@@jonataspereira1691
Actually it was Wilhelm’s father who really drove the final nail in the coffin for the Russo-German alliance. His father took Germany in a more pro-Austrian approach. Wilhelm actually tried desperately to restore the alliance with Russia. He tried using personal diplomacy with his cousin who as children he was quite close with. This failed because the German government and French government were quite at odds with each other. Nicholas was an easily impressionable man and Wilhelm was limited by the constraints of the constitution and his government.
He also wasn’t incompetent either as he was an excellent domestic peacetime monarch. Bismarck was a great but deeply flawed person. Everyone acts like he’s some sort of unquestionable savant which he was not. A lot of his own success had to do with luck as well.
An example of Wilhelm’s skill would be how early in his reign there was a large coal miner’s’ strike in Westphalia. Bismarck wanted to bring the army to harshly crush them. This likely would have triggered some sort of Civil War or uprising in Germany. Wilhelm however peacefully disarmed the situation and mediated a settlement. He was quite sympathetic to the workers and had viewed the business owners as greedy. This earned him massive popularity within Germany and international acclaim. Also his supposed foreign policy blunders were in a large part part of Entente propaganda selectively editing his quotes and looking at them without context.
Well real talk; Kaiser Wilhelm bears as much responsibility in losing the war along with his Generals. First of all, if he did not willingly gave Austria-Hungary the Blank Cheque, or simply pressure them into lowering their demands off of Serbia, then Germany and the entire world would have been different.
And he would've kept his throne.
The Tsardom fashioned itself as Protector of the Slavs. I'm sure they would have used even the slightest aggression as a cause for war.
Nothing he did would have prevented that.
Also if he hadn't foolishly allowed the Reinsurance treaty to expire and let the Russians slip away no war would''ve occured.
well he's not gonna say that is he
Well those demand couldn’t have been that harsh since Serbia accepted every singe one except an Austro-Hungarian lead investigation into the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
THE FALL OF EAGLES..IS A MUST SEE..A GREAT BRITISH SERIES...HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Excellent movie!! Love Christopher Plummer. Jai Courtney and Lilly James are so believable. Thoroughly enjoyed this film.
You be nice to the Kaiser!
Yes he did his best
Plummer’s a legend
1:08 A spectacular Scene
While I think in terms of looks and the way he carries himself, the way he talks, Sylvester Groth to me plays a more convincing interpretation.
But the emotions, the inside values, the soul, the opinions, the actual man. That is what Christopher Plummer brought to life.
That servant also worked for Churchill, bloody double agents everywhere.
Hehehe.. Yes...
This movie.. Jai was amazing
And so charming ! ❤
Damn. It's just so depressing especially the sorrow the Kaiser lived with for the rest of his life. He tried, he tried all the best he could to benefit the people of the Fatherland and protect his people. Only for allies to outnumber and get the better of him, and here we are now in the Nazi Era the Kaiser has to suffer through in a country that isn't true anymore. Pitiful 😔
Protect his people from what, pray tell?
@@johanlassen6448 shutup. This was 5 months ago
Imperialists that were paranoid and jealous of german economic success @@johanlassen6448
@@johanlassen6448 War. There is a reason he was known as the Peace Kaiser.
@@Saffi____ A war he started.
Plummer also played The Duke of Wellington
Came here from wilhelm react
Me too lol
Kaiser Wilhelm II Reaction Prinz Eugen Azur Lane
Me too
I hate Azur Lane turn anime and Hitler too
#RestorePrussia
#ReturnKaiserReich
#KaiserWilhelmII
#ReturnMonachy
There's actually a character I have for DC Comics and he will make his first appearance as soon as my book is published. His name is General War man he was an unknown German who is supposedly the secret successor of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. On his world he killed Hitler because he considered his demeanor to be that of a madman. He even succeeded in winning the war for the Kaiser. And with the help of German doctors and engineers they managed to collect all their fallen soldiers including the bodies of their enemies and they brought factories to life turning they're falling and their enemies into steam powered soldiers and as time progressed he decided to upgrade his soldiers from steam-powered to nuclear power. Smallest inspirations came from the king's man, the exception, the wolf Brigade, and my favorite Zack Snyder film Sucker Punch
Christopher Plummer is an amazing actor.
Прекрасно играл Кристофер Пламмер своего персонажа- Вильгельма Кайзера в фильме " Исключение "или " Последний поцелуй Кайзера ". Вообще-то он все роли хорошо играл, но эта одна из последних перед его уходом от нас! Здесь он настоящий старый аристократ- бывший правитель!!! Замечательный артист шекспировской театральной школы начала 20 столетия!!! Разносторонне талантлив был, трудолюбив и очень остроумен!!! Вечная память и наша любовь💞💏💘 канадскому артисту Кристоферу Пламмеру!!! 🌹🎬🎼🎹🌹
What a performance by Christopher Plummer RIP
Sehr beeindruckend....
Sowohl schauspielerisch als auch historisch 😮 Respekt
RIP to Christopher plummer
christopher Plummer, great actor
Very powerful scene.
God bless the Kaiser Wilhelm 2
I may sound like your average Kaiserboo. But this scene hurts to watch, you can’t help but feel for the Kaiser.
Wilhelm II:
Yeah, yeah, your father died in the war, your mother died in poverty, that is all very tragic.
BUT do you not think we should rather speak about ME and my tragic fate?!
Ah someone else that does not understand this moment
Exceptionally skilled actor, Christopher Plummer..
I think this was the last film of this great actor
Great acting from one of the best.
Es genial la interpretación de Christopher Plummer cómo el kaiser Guillermo ll. Se parece mucho a las fotos del kaiser auténtico de ésa época. 👏👏
One historic detail I like is that he hits the table with his right hand because he had a withered left arm, which was next to useless.
laughs in Bismarck
This is an excellent movie and worthy of your time to watch it.
The Captain may not have been tactful but he was honest at least.....
I fucking love Christopher Plummer... what a fucking artiste!
Very good acting, but the Kaiser is wearing the wrong Pour le Merite, with oak Leaves. . .The Kaiser was Royal Chancellor of the Order and had crossed swords, and the cross was the larger Grand Cross size (without the center portrait), not the standard size PLM. . .
Watched this movie yesterday, great movie.
“Am I to blame for every misfortune...”
(in the mind of every WWI Historian)
Well, actually...
Disputed.
@@darkawakening01 July 5, 1914... German empire, led by Kaiser Wilhelm II, unconditionally gives its full, military support to Austria-Hungary in its war with Serbia.
1912: Kaiser Wilhelm II instructs Generals Helmuth Von Moltke & Alfred Von Tirpitz that Austria must “act vigorously against the foreign Slavs,” and that “if Russia should support the Serbs, war would be inevitable for us.”
July 7, 1914: German Chancellor Von Bethmann Hollweg writes in his diary: “Russia has become a nightmare, and the German generals say that there must be war before it’s too late.” (in response to the recent industrial developments within the Russian empire... especially expansion of its railways.)
June 30, 1914: Kaiser Wilhelm II writes in his diary: “The Serbs must be disposed of, and soon.”
July 5, 1914: Kaiser Wilhelm says to the Austrian Ambassador: “The Austrians can count on German support should war exist between Austria & Serbia.”
July 28, 1914: Kaiser Wilhelm is briefed in full on the investigations into Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination. He is told that there is zero evidence showing involvement by the Serbian government in the plot. He is also made aware that efforts by the Serbian government to involve the international tribunal at The Hague for further investigations, as well as efforts by the Russian government to peacefully resolve hostilities with German, Austrian, Serbian, & Russian diplomats. He nonetheless does not rescind his promise to support the Austrians militarily should they declare war.
Shortly after, Austrian Chancellor Conrad Von Hotzendorf, along with Emperor Franz Josef declare war on Serbia & Russia. Germany follows suit in spite of everything they were informed about... and in spite of knowing that France & England will likely support the Russians.
Case & point... Wilhelm played arguably the biggest role in the escalation of the conflict. He led numerous efforts in the preceding 30 years at growing Germany’s army & navy to offset the balance of power in Europe. He could have easily urged restraint to the Austrians, and not so eagerly pledged his military support prior to an international tribunal. He continued the war long after it was clear that Germany could not win militarily. He actively encouraged harassment on the high seas of merchant vessels; resulting in the deaths of thousands of civilians.
Still wanna defend him?
@@nicknoga564 No, I´m not disputing that the German Empire contributed a lot to the way things went down. But the majority of historians nowadays propagate a more-or-less equally shared fault for all the great powers. Every slight caused by one side was answered with immediate escalation by the other. There were no cool heads around in the concert of the great powers at that time. But (falsely) blaming the German Empire solely for WWI was one of the main reasons WWII was just around the corner. And just focusing on Germany by listing only their share of provocative acts while ignoring the Entente is very narrow-minded, Sir.
The war was started because some Serbian guy killed the Austro-Hungarian emperor
@@thesilverreich3947 The Emperor wasn’t killed... it was the Archduke. And there was no evidence ever found that the assassin had links to the Serbian government; rather to a Terrorist cell called the Black Hand. Serbia desperately tried to appease an irate Austrian government afterward; asking only that the case be tried using international arbitration. But the Austrians were dead-set on declaring war without proof of Serbian involvement in the assassination, and Wilhelm II foolishly backed them. He himself was desperate for a war with the Russians (which war with Serbia would certainly precipitate), and this assassination was the flimsy justification he went with. He listened to war-monger generals who foolishly believed they could implement the Schlieffen plan to win a 2-front war with France & Russia when any sane person would know that it was suicide. Wilhelm had a history of provocation with the western powers in relation to naval confrontations with England over colonial Africa. The man wanted war. He got one.
I really like Christopher Plummer when he played the role of Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, from the 1970 Movie "Waterloo".
Average Heart of Iron players when they play Germany :
RIP Christopher Plummer.
Remember,Villains Are Just Innocent People When They Have A Paintful Backstory!
Christopher a great actor!
Another good performance as Wilhelm II (my opinion anyways) is Barry Foster in the series "Fall of Eagles".
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Why was poor Willy so angry? He sounded so full of rage bless him
old will had a smashing uniforma cabinet
Imagine if one night. During one of Hitler's scheduled speeches. Right before he walks in the announcer calls out, Presenting his royal majesty, Emperor Wilhelm the 2nd. And he walks in with his own personal guards, gives a speech and wins back the people of germany.
To be honest WW1 was probably the last war when people were actually gentlemen to one another
The North Africa campaign of WW2
Agree
Not exactly, all the sides used chemical weapons and let's not talk about the no man's land. The gentleman behaviour was more prominent in the air.
@@mitsvanmitsvanio6106 exactly
And so all the Belgian civilians murdered in 1914 died by the orders of German gentlemen. I think this was not a great comfort for them and their families.
I want to watch the full movie.