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2 days ago · Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.
6 days ago · The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany. When it first appeared in hardback in 1994, John Rohl’s remarkable collection of essays won the Wolfson History Prize. And clearly it deserved to.
3 days ago · The Kaiser Wilhelm II, was also deserted, but Ritchie was alerted by a clip of three Mauser bullets with their pointed ends sawn off lying on the deck and showing that someone had been preparing small arms for action. “Ritchie had never been at ease in the eerie quietness and emptiness of that harbour, and as a precaution had two steel ...
4 days ago · At the maneuvers of 1885, he met the future Kaiser Wilhelm II; they met again at the next year's war game in which Hindenburg commanded the "Russian army". He learned the topography of the lakes and sand barrens of East Prussia during the annual Great General Staff's ride in 1888.
4 days ago · On 9 November 1918, a republic was proclaimed, and the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II was announced, marking the end of Imperial Germany and the beginning of the Weimar Republic. The armistice that ended the fighting was signed on 11 November.
3 days ago · Study with Quizlet and memorise flashcards containing terms like Although Kaiser Wilhelm II appeared confident and ambitious, what 4 characteristics did he hide?, Where did Wilhelm feel most comfortable, and what did he change several times a day?, What can Wilhelm's humour be described as? and others.
5 days ago · Firstly, its sophisticated treatment of German nationalism (pp. 16-37). Hoyer underscores the fact that neither Bismarck nor Wilhelm I were German nationalists (pp. 5-6) and charts the development of German cultural and linguistic nationalism, including the role played the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales (pp. 19-20).
