History Graduate | Researching Kaiser Wilhelm II, Personal Monarchy & Imperial Culture | Tory
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Just finished university and it feels rather anticlimactic.
I miss my dissertation work. One day I’d love to write a book on the Kaiser and culture as there are so many brilliant anecdotes that show a different side.
Would anyone actually read that? Is it a worth pursuing?
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Jun 13
June 13, 1914
#OTD Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (Right) concluded his visit with Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Left) after they discussed the tenuous balance of power in the Balkans, as the Archduke was scheduled later that month to visit military expansion efforts in the region.
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Kaiser Wilhelm II, in tropical attire, during his 1898 visit to Ottoman Palestine.
His arrival was called the “soft crusade” due to the extravagance of his procession through Jerusalem, crusader imagery, and his building projects in the region.
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Entirely misunderstood and unfairly reduced to a caricature.
He wanted to avoid war at all costs, and had a genuine fascination with the arts and business which he personally involved himself in and allowed his reign to be a wonderful juxtaposition of modernity and historicism.
Jun 12
What's your take in Wilhelm II?
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What a bizarre ramble.
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand triggered Russian mobilisation. Wilhelm, along with Nicholas II, tried to prevent escalation.
As for “revenge,” Hitler hated the Junkers, blaming them for Germany’s failures, and wanted to destroy their influence.
Jun 13
Everyone thinks of Hitler with WWII.
Wilhelm II should be the name everyone knows with BOTH World Wars…
Wilhelm II attacked Russia and than the Austrian assassination occurred to start WWI.
Hitler was Wilhelm II revenge for losing his throne.
Look at Napoleon for similarities…
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Wilhelm II never saw Britain as a natural enemy and wanted a navy that Britain would respect which he attributed to his English blood.
However, he unwisely let Tirpitz’s Anglophobia dominate German naval policy.
Jun 13
I agree with you there, it was a miscalculation of war based on the Napoleonic wars. The combatants still went into battle with Cavalry just as they did at Waterloo!
I believe the war started on the Isle of Wight around 1880 when the boy Prince Wilhelm (later the Kaiser) won a race at Cowes week and jumped up and down saying "I beat you I beat you damn British"
A British Admiral stepped forward and said "indeed your highness but you will never beat the Royal Navy" and he pointed to the fleet anchored at Spithead to reinforce his point.
A young German Naval officer stepped forward and spoke quietly to Wilhelm saying "He is right your majesty, Germany will
Never be an equal nation until
It has a navy to challenge the British"
That naval officers name was Tirpitz. This incident was the creation of the High Seas Fleet and that so alarmed the British Government they moved away from their traditional alliance with Germany and formed an alliance with Russia and France, the "E'ntant Cordial" that surrounded Germany on all sides.
It was this tinder box that was ignited in 1914 by the assassination in Sarajevo which provided the spark.
Thirty million dead, nations bankrupted, Germany humiliated by the Versailles Treaty which led to the rise of Nazism and a Second World War, another fifty million dead, The end of the Hapsburgs and the Romanov's, the birth of communism- and all because of a spoilt brat on a sailboat. 🙄
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Someone clearly hasn’t progressed past Fischer.
Jun 11
WW1 was a conflict between good and evil.
Germany was the aggressor and bad.
Their explicit goals in ‘14 were the conquest of Belgium, a seizure of industrial regions of France, territorial expansion in Eastern Europe, and all of europe under a German political hegemony.
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Jun 12
This is true - even in the 1930s there were plans to convert the Empire into a commonwealth of self-governing nations. WW2 hastened the process, but it was inevitable.
Jun 12
The British Empire died because Britain became a full-blown democracy in the 20th century and no democracy can retain control of peoples who no longer want to be colonies.
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Many indigenous Fijians wanted to remain linked to Britain in 1970 and resisted full independence.
Britain granted them independence anyway under broader international decolonisation pressures.
Add to this the fact that their flag is still the blue ensign, and that their national motto is Fear God and honour the King. It was Fear God and honour the Queen until 2022
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The British Empire largely collapsed because after WW2, we were on the brink of bankruptcy, overextended, and feared Algerian like uprisings which hastened decolonisation in the 1960s.
Jun 12
How utterly ridiculous. The British empire died because the colonised would not accept colonialism
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The sharp rise in German speaking from the 1890s was in large part due to the economic boom caused by Imperial Germany’s involvement in the 2nd Industrial Revolution alongside its increasing intellectual exchange with America which was personally pushed by Wilhelm II.
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During Mark Twain’s travels, he wrote a famous piece called ‘The Chicago of Europe’ where he believed the modern planning and aesthetic of Berlin was like that of an American city.
It serves as a crucial account in understanding Imperial Berlin, which was a relatively new city.
Mark Twain über die deutsche Sprache:
„Jedes Hauptwort hat ein Geschlecht, und es gibt keinen Sinn oder ein System in der Verteilung; deshalb muss man das Geschlecht jedes einzelnen Wortes gesondert und auswendig lernen. Es gibt keine andere Möglichkeit. Dazu braucht man ein Gedächtnis wie ein Notizbuch. Im Deutschen hat eine junge Dame kein Geschlecht, während eine Rübe eines hat.“
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"Une monarchie constitutionnelle serait une alternative pleinement compatible avec les principes fondamentaux sur lesquels repose notre Constitution actuelle. Cela ne nécessiterait qu'une modification mineure (du texte)", déclaré le sénateur tchèque Zdeněk Hraba. 1/2 👇👑🇨🇿
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The German empire is unmatched aesthetic wise.
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Das Thronjubiläum Kaiser Wilhelms II. 1913 markierte den glanzvollen Höhepunkt einer Ordnung, deren Fundamente auf Tradition, Hierarchie und historischem Recht ruhten.
Diese vier verbessert aufbereiteten Bilddokumente des Jahres 1913 stehen ebenfalls sinnbildlich für das tragische Motiv unseres Musikvideos. Man findet die in Szene gesetzten Bilder im zitierten Werk "Versunkene Krone 👑" auf YouTube:
#Monarchie #Verfassung #Reichstag #DeutscherKaiser
„Wahrheit ist eine bittere Arznei; man bleibt lieber krank, ehe man sich entschließt, sie einzunehmen.“ 🏛️🍂
Inspiriert von Ludwig Uhlands berühmtem Gedicht (1834) verbindet unser historisch-metaphorisches Projekt „Versunkene Krone“ Musik, Bild und Poesie zu einer tiefen Reflexion über Werte und unserer eigenen deutschen Geschichte.
Für unser Musikvideo "Versunkene Krone" haben wir mit einem kleinen Update die im "painterly realism" gehaltenen Szenen nochmal etwas aufgebessert und 2 Szenen wurden ersetzt.
Schaut euch jetzt gerne die verbesserte und aktualisierte Version auf YouTube an:👇
youtu.be/r6EidNdyYGw
#DeutscheGeschichte #VersunkeneKrone #Musikvideo #LudwigUhland #Staatsrecht
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Britzer retweeted
Jun 9
There is a class of people, who genuinely find the aesthetic of Britain and her history to be embarrassing and crude. Unfortunately those people hold great influence over public life here.
Jun 9
Goodbye 3 Commando Brigade, and we thank you. Welcome, UK Commando Force.
The name change - formally announced by HM The King while presenting the Royal Marines with new Colours - reflects a decade of transformation.
➡️ Read more: royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2026/j…
ALT The new flag of the HQ Commando Forces
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