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	Wilhelm II of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wilhelm II of Prussia and Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert von Hohenzollern (January 27, 1859–June 4, 1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and the last King (König) of Prussia, ruling from 1888 to 1918.
		Wilhelm was educated at Kassel at the Friedrichsgymnasium and the University of Bonn.
		Kaiser Wilhelm II died of pneumonia in Doorn on June 5, 1941 with the German occupiers on guard at the gates of his estate.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Wilhelm_II (1091 words)

	Wilhelm II of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wilhelm II of Germany (born Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert von Preußen 27 January 1859–4 June 1941), was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and the last King (König) of Prussia, ruling from 1888 to 1918.
		Wilhelm was somehow involved in the scandal of his aide and friend, Philipp Prince zu Eulenburg-Hertefeld, which revealed homosexual activities in the Kaiser's inner circle (the Harden-Eulenburg Affair).
		Wilhelm apparently harboured hopes that the Nazis would revive the monarchy (as long as its leader, Adolf Hitler, was willing to entertain such), but when this did not happen, his opinion of Hitler became very low, although he did share Hitler's vision of German Nationalism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilhelm_II_of_Germany (1493 words)

	Kaiser
		As Wilhelm began to grow to manhood, his grandfather, the German Emperor Wilhelm I, decided to put him appart from his mother liberal influence and that he should begin the military aspect of his preparation for the throne, so Wilhelm was assigned as a liutenant to the First Regiment of Foot Guards.
		Wilhelm was an ambitious, insecure and troublesome man. Hew didn't keep mournig for bhis father assiting to continuos ceremonies and traveling to all parts of Germany and abroad, fact which infuriated his grandmother, Queen Victoria.
		Wilhelm supported the opinions of his Chief of the Army, General Alfred von Waldersee and of Baron von Holstein, that Russia was a potencial menace for German security.
	www.geocities.com /jesusib/Kaiser.html (938 words)

	Wilhelm II
		Wilhelm II Wilhelm II, King of Prussia and German Kaiser, born 27 January 1859 in Berlin, died 5 June 1941 at Doorn in The Netherlands.
		The eldest grandchild of Queen Victoria, Wilhelm symbolized his era and the nouveaux riche aspects of the German empire.
		A stronger indictment emerges from Wilhelm's hesitancy to halt the apparatus of war as it lurched towards the brink, propelled by mobilization plans and timetables.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/bio/w/willyii.html (735 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Kaiser Wilhelm II
		Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Germany's last Kaiser, was born in Potsdam in 1859, the son of Frederick III and Victoria, daughter of Queen Victoria.
		Wilhelm was an overtly militaristic man, and believed fervently in increasing the strength of Germany's armed forces.
		Wilhelm opposed the replacement of Erich Falkenhayn with Paul von Hindenburg in August 1916, but the dismissal of Falkenhayn took place nonetheless.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/wilhelmii.htm (846 words)

	Book Review: Kaiser Wilhelm II, by Christopher M. Clark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kaiser Wilhelm II was a devout Christian with some liberal leanings and some of the racist, social-Darwinism and anti-Semitism of his day.
		Wilhelm was a man of common intelligence who was the father of his nation simply by accident of birth, and common intelligence, as I see it, was not enough to keep Europe from war.
		Wilhelm's responsibility for the war was combined with the monarchs Nicholas II of Russia and Franz Joseph of Austria, who also held power by accident of birth, and were also less than bright.
	www.fsmitha.com /review/r-wilhelm.html (308 words)

	Kaiser Wilhelm II & World War I
		In 1888, Wilhelm II ascended to the German throne as Kaiser.
		Wilhelm II was convinced of his divine right to rule, and was not prepared to play a passive role alongside Bismarck as his grandfather Wilhelm I had done.
		Wilhelm II stated publicly that it was ‘now or never for Austria to deal the Serbs’, which led to Austria-Hungary being pressured into declaring war on Russia on August 6, thus escalating a localised conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia into a European war.
	www.angelfire.com /tv/jarbury/essay/wilhelm.html (1427 words)

	Germany's Last Kaiser - Wilhelm II and political decision-making in Imperial Germany
		After the war, the victorious allies were in no doubt that Wilhelm II was personally responsible for the coming of war in 1914, and they included him on their list of war criminals wanted in connection with the atrocities of the war and the suffering that it had brought to millions of soldiers and civilians.
		Wilhelm, having fled Germany in November 1918, had been given refuge in the Netherlands and was able to stay there despite the allies' request of extradition.
		Essays in Honour of Derek Beales, Cambridge, 1996; Isabel Hull, The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1888-1918, Cambridge, 1982; Thomas A. Kohut, Wilhelm II and the Germans.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~semp/wilhelmii.htm (3086 words)

	Wilhelm II of Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wilhelm II of Prussia and Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht von Hohenzollern (January 27, 1859 - June 5, 1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and the last King (König) of Prussia from 1888 - 1918.
		Wilhelm was educated at Kassel Gymnasium and the University of Bonn.
		Kaiser Wilhelm II died in Doorn on June 5, 1941 with the German occupiers on guard at the gates of his estate.
	www.city-search.org /wi/wilhelm-ii-of-germany.html (791 words)

	BBC - History - Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941)
		Wilhelm was the eldest child of Crown Prince Frederick (later Emperor Frederick III) and Victoria.
		Wilhelm wanted von Bülow to persuade the Reichstag to accept whatever policies the Kaiser and the upper classes wanted, usually completely unsuitable for the rapidly industrialising Germany.
		Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, Wilhelm encouraged the Austrians to adopt an uncompromising line but lost his nerve and was unable to stop his generals mobilising their forces.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/wilhelm_kaiser_ii.shtml (366 words)

	WILHELM II
		In the first years of his reign, Wilhelm II found himself at odds with the politics of powerful Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, whose resignation followed in March 1890 under the pressure of the emperor.
		Wilhelm's idea of Weltpolitik was aimed at making Germany the world power with strong army and colonial possessions, but it inevitably led to confrontation with Great Britain and its chief allies – France and Russia.
		Wilhelm remained a nominal commander-in-chief of the German army throughout the war.
	www.archontology.org /nations/german/germ_state1/wilhelm2.php (451 words)

	First World War.com - Primary Documents - Kaiser Wilhelm II's Abdication Proclamation, 28 November 1918
		With Germany actively seeking an armistice and revolution threatening, calls for Kaiser Wilhelm II to abdicate grew in intensity.
		Wilhelm was himself deeply reluctant to make such a sacrifice, instead expressing a preference to lead his armies back into Germany from the Western Front.
		Wilhelm's abdication was announced by Chancellor Prince Max von Baden in a 9 November 1918 proclamation - before Wilhelm had in fact consented to abdicate (but after Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann had announced the Kaiser's departure from the balcony of the Reichstag).
	www.firstworldwar.com /source/abdication.htm (424 words)

	Rez. x-post: Ch. Clark, Kaiser Wilhelm II. Profiles in Power
		The animus of the Prussian minister-president for Friedrich Wilhelm and Crown Princess Victoria isolated them and their children politically and socially, with the result that Wilhelm's education and general upbringing became a bone of contention between his parents, on the one hand, and his grandfather and Bismarck, on the other.
		While Wilhelm's profile in foreign relations was a high one, his real significance was marginal, as demonstrated by, for example, his inability to secure the renewal of the Reinsurance Treaty after Bismarck's departure, notwithstanding his strong personal bias in favor of renewal.
		Instead, Clark argues that the record supports the conclusion that Wilhelm's commitment to Austria was not uncritical, and that in fact his willingness to proffer German support depended upon his assessment of the rectitude of Austria's cause and his understanding of the risks involved.
	hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de /REZENSIO/buecher/2001/NuTh0801.htm (2484 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Last Kaiser: The Life of Wilhelm II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wilhelm's dismissal of the chancellor, Bismarck, generally attributed to a young, incompetent kaiser's jealousy, is here construed as a necessary and long-overdue act.
		Wilhelm's withered left arm, the result of incompetent obstetricians and seen by Freud as the source of the emperor's compulsion to prove his masculinity, was actually only a slight handicap that Wilhelm overcame with great strength of character, attests MacDonogh.
		Wilhelm is one of the most contradictory and controversial leaders of the 2th century, but this book never really gives you a sense of his personality or his relationships with others.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312276737?v=glance (2102 words)

	Wilhelm II - Cambridge University Press
		Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859—1941) ruled Imperial Germany from his accession in 1888 to his enforced abdication in 1918 at the end of the First World War.
		The predictable disaster: Wilhelm II and the ‘public soul’ of Germany; 21.
		Wilhelm and the birth of the German battle fleet; 33.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521819202 (405 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Wilhelm II: Volume 2: Emperor and Exile, 1900-1941 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the most critically acclaimed studies of Wilhelm II is Lamar Cecil's two-volume biography (1989, 1996), deemed by one reviewer as 'the best-available English treatment of the waning years of the last Kaiser' available.
		Cecil's portrait of Wilhelm is largely critical: the emperor ruled 'maladroitly,' throughout a 'barren career that was without virtue or accomplishment' (ix); 'bluster, rhetoric, and natural swagger cloaked a profound emptiness, for ignorance and self-indulgence were his primary characteristics.' (1).
		Despite this martial enthusiasm, Wilhelm was 'by nature peaceful,' (194) and opposed war in 1914, afraid that a European conflict would distract Germany from the internal threat of socialism.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0807822833 (717 words)

	Kaiser Wilhelm II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kaiser Wilhelm II Kaiser Wilhelm II The third of NDL's four-stack liners, Kaiser Wilhelm II was built by Vulkan of Stettin.
		En route to New York when the war began, Kaiser Wilhelm II was interned at Hoboken, New Jersey, where NDL maintained its New York piers, until the United States entered the War in 1917.
		Kaiser Wilhelm II on the deck of the Bremen.
	www.greatships.net /kwilhelmii.html (406 words)

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		Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert was the oldest son of Crown Prince Friedrich and Victoria, the oldest child of England’s Queen Victoria.
		In 1890, Wilhelm II became the Kaiser at age 29.
		To avoid captivity and even death, Wilhelm II was forced to seek political asylum in the Netherlands until his death in 1941.
	www.coinguide.com /20mw2.shtml (250 words)

	German royalty--Wilhelm II childhood aquaintences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Years later Wilhelm, who had become Kaiser, would write Queen Victoria condescending letters complaining of the Prince pf wales' behavior, obstensibly because he had the rank of admiral in the Germany Navy.
		Wilhelm who was almost the same age as Rudolf met him on a trip with his parents to Vienna.
		While Prince Wilhelm was at University in Bonn, he would often spend the weekend with his Hessian counsins at their modest palace in Darmstadt.
	histclo.hispeed.com /royal/ger/w2/w2aqu.htm (766 words)

	Vanguard News Network Forum - Kaiser Wilhelm II had Jewish ancestry?
		WW1 a manifestation of the Wilhelm's sado-masochist pervyness?.
		Kaiser Wilhelm II was grandson of Queen Victoria and King Albert.
		Queen Victoria herself could have had a jewish father too, that gave her the Ashkenazi haemophiliac defect that was unknown in the family of her official father.
	www.vnnforum.com /printthread.php?t=7876 (533 words)

	Canadian Journal of History: Wilhelm II. Volume 2. Emperor and Exile, 1900-1941
		Had this Olympian conception been accurate, Wilhelm II might have had a glorious life: loved and admired by his subjects, revered throughout the world as a great lord, and in death praised by the concourse of nations.
		The most novel part of the book is the discussion of Wilhelm as arbiter of German culture and religion, which reflects Wilhelm's wide if amateurish interests, but in which he was conservative and conventional.
		Wilhelm's physical and mental health is discussed in the first chapter, but unlike John C.G. Rohl, Cecil refrains from diagnosis.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_199708/ai_n8765839 (615 words)

	The Gold Coin Store : German Gold 20 Marks Kaiser Wilhelm II (1888-1912) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wilhelm II ruled Germany for most of this period, from 1888 to 1915.
		Wilhelm II was the eldest son of Crown Prince Friedrich and Victoria, daughter of England’s Queen Victoria.
		Wilhelm II German Gold 20 Marks recall the grand period of the Prussian monarchy before the ravages of World War I and the terrible economic hardship that followed in Germany.
	www.thegoldcoinstore.com /EuropeanGold/German_Gold_20_Marks_Kaizer_Wilhelm_II.shtml (356 words)

	Waltraud Maierhofer
		In 1796, while Wilhelmine was in Italy, Friedrich Wilhelm II dissolved the Ritz marriage‚ and elevated her to the status of nobility, naming her Countess of Lichtenau (pre-dated to 1794), a move occasioned by the Queen of Naples‚ refusal to grant an audience to a non-aristocrat.
		Wilhelm Bringmann in his recent thorough study on Prussia under Friedrich Wilhelm II concludes that his mistress and friend was not interested in political influence (and that she might have lacked the necessary insights and connections).
		And it was, in fact, a novel that first incorporated the archival material about Wilhelmine, including the documents from the trial and the extant letters of Friedrich Wilhelm II to Wilhelmine, and revised the image of her.
	www.womeningerman.org /conference/2002/encke.html (3513 words)

	The Historian: Emperor and Exile: Wilhelm II, 1900-1941, vol 2... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wilhelm's political naivete was evident inasmuch as he believed himself "capable of solving any problem if allowed to deal with a fellow sovereign" (232).
		For all of Wilhelm's faults, Cecil at least is able to counter Fritz Fischer's allegation that the Kaiser and his staff were intent on war as early as 1912.
		The account of Wilhelm's later years in exile shows that the Kaiser increasingly lost touch with reality, blaming his loss of power on "a masonic conspiracy of Frenchmen and Jews plotting to overthrow all the crowned heads of Europe" (290).
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:53461540&refid=ink_tptd_g1 (557 words)

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