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moscowexile · 04-20-08, 05:25 AM

Off topic maybe, but this thread has progressed from a question posed about the Kriegsmarine in WWII after the fall of France...

Old Kaiser Bill was really an English gentleman in Prussian uniform!

What always intrigued me about him was that when revolution hit Germany in 1918, like the majority of the German aristocracy, he just packed his bags and left the Fatherland. Wilhelm II spent the rest of his life in Doorn, the Netherlands, where he died on June 4th 1941, just 18 days before Barbarossa, the attack on the USSR, was launched, which attack spelt doom for the Third Reich.

See:

http://pierreswesternfront.punt.nl/i...&tbl_archief=0

The old Kaiser died when the born-again Reich was at its most successful and powerful. I often wonder what he thought about all of this when he was breathing his last. Needless to say, he despised the Nazis, who, as national socialists,held the old order in contempt, but I reckon the old man could not have been more than a little proud when looking objectively at the success of the Wehrmacht.

I still think that it was a disaster for the United Kingdom, a disaster for Germany, a disaster for Europe and a disaster for the world when the British government, after several days of hesitation, decided to throw in its lot with the Entente powers.

The world situation as we see it now all stems from that fateful decision made on August 3rd 1914.

04-20-08, 05:25 AM	#18
moscowexile Navy Dude Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Moskau, Rußland. Posts: 174 Downloads: 206 Uploads: 0	Off topic maybe, but this thread has progressed from a question posed about the Kriegsmarine in WWII after the fall of France... Old Kaiser Bill was really an English gentleman in Prussian uniform! What always intrigued me about him was that when revolution hit Germany in 1918, like the majority of the German aristocracy, he just packed his bags and left the Fatherland. Wilhelm II spent the rest of his life in Doorn, the Netherlands, where he died on June 4th 1941, just 18 days before Barbarossa, the attack on the USSR, was launched, which attack spelt doom for the Third Reich. See: http://pierreswesternfront.punt.nl/i...&tbl_archief=0 The old Kaiser died when the born-again Reich was at its most successful and powerful. I often wonder what he thought about all of this when he was breathing his last. Needless to say, he despised the Nazis, who, as national *socialists,held the old order in contempt, but I reckon the old man could not have been more than a little proud when looking objectively at the success of the Wehrmacht. I still think that it was a disaster for the United Kingdom, a disaster for Germany, a disaster for Europe and a disaster for the world when the British government, after several days of hesitation, decided to throw in its lot with the Entente powers. The world situation as we see it now all stems from that fateful decision made on August 3rd 1914. __________________ "Die Lust der Zerstörung ist gleichzeitig eine schaffende Lust."* (The lust for destruction is at the same time a creative lust.- Mikhail Bukhanin.) Last edited by moscowexile; 04-20-08 at 07:08 AM.