tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post7610141898978561981..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: The Kaiser on Hitlerelena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-59834836024600869242011-09-01T09:08:04.850-04:002011-09-01T09:08:04.850-04:00Though Kaiser Wilhelm is not one of my favorite ro...Though Kaiser Wilhelm is not one of my favorite royals his observations about Hitler were simply amazing!! It is as if he had a crystal ball in front of him and was simply reading the future. Though steeped in his Prussian military heritage I believe even the Kaiser could never have predicted the Holocaust. When I was a child our family doctor was a refugee from Nazi Germany. As he said to me,"We thought of ourselves as Germans first,not Jews. My family had fought for Germany and the Kaiser." How true and how very sad.lara77https://www.blogger.com/profile/12595738597369639417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-54610054978623374232011-08-31T22:01:47.460-04:002011-08-31T22:01:47.460-04:00So that's what Kaiser Wilhelm looked like in o...So that's what Kaiser Wilhelm looked like in old age! I suddenly realized that until seeing this post I'd never seen a picture of his post-1918 self.<br /><br />Is it true that he greeted the news of Kristallnacht with the words "For the first time in my life I am ashamed to be a German"? I remember being told this quotation in my childhood but I've never succeeded in finding a source for it.R J Stovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01656048314654453886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-91871872548280223272011-08-31T09:25:59.743-04:002011-08-31T09:25:59.743-04:00The anglo-american take on the kaiser is still soo...The anglo-american take on the kaiser is still soooo much bull and propaganda. Clemenceau, Lloyd-George, and especially Wilson were the real villians of this era.tubbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272003035464034763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-66536171198023413202011-08-31T07:50:21.306-04:002011-08-31T07:50:21.306-04:00The Kaiser certainly laid the groundwork for what ...The Kaiser certainly laid the groundwork for what happened later. Let's hope that he acknowledged it at least to himself.elena maria vidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-4090001948007141102011-08-31T04:48:52.379-04:002011-08-31T04:48:52.379-04:00Kaiser Wilhelm certainly had every opportunity to ...Kaiser Wilhelm certainly had every opportunity to work with Kaiser Karl, blessed Charles of Hungary, to stop the insane bloodbath that was WW1. Instead, the German army threatened blessed Charles with arrest and bodily harm if he continued to work for peace. And there also was that German genocide in Namibia in which up to 24% of all the members of a unruly tribe was wiped out, driven into the desert to die of thirst. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_Genocide<br /><br />It's somewhat bizarre to find Kaiser Wilhelm talking about gangsters and an all-swallowing state given his own history.anothertwocentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10566495289958979274noreply@blogger.com