Hitler and the Hohenzollerns - The Kaiser's Family & the Nazis 

i went there a few months back, may have seen you who knows hahah

a Modest thank you to yourself as well as any other museum worker. History is important, and the work you do is a part of it, no matter the role. have a great day, and a final thank you!

Ik zou graag museum huis doorn willen bezoeken. Hoe ver is doorn van Utrecht ?

@@vijayiyer8518 30 minuten met de auto

@@priceless073 Haha maybe indeed!

Well done indeed, I've never heard of this until now

@@bobhill3941 I am really sick of you ruining everything

@@TimPerfetto I agree with Bob Hill...this is impeccably presented history that does not get enough coverage.

@@alanblanes2876 Thank you, I don't know what I "ruined" though.

@@bobhill3941 Everything

You showed him the worst areas of Philly, huh? Having lived there during the height of the crack epidemic, my hat off to both of you. Brave men! Kidding aside (kind of), it's good for people of his status to see more than the Liberty Bell.

What armored vehicle did you use for the tour lol.

I can imagine Kensington being the worst area. Definitely a no go for me.

@@timf2279 we drove him around in a Ford Exedition SWAT SUV! He wore my Captains body armor as well.

@RJ Walls I was thinking of a Bearcat from the Field Office. Good job

I have a question, what....oh I forgot it :(

@@williamwilliam5066 Poo peee poo

@@TimPerfetto You and I Tim, are Biden brothers :)

yes and thank you

It's the accent.

Indeed. In 16/17 the Oberste Heeresleitung/Supreme Army Command overtook power in Germany. But even before that, the Kaiser _"just"_ the head of the state. Like the King of England or tsar of Russia. He didn't play an active role in politics or the military.

The Kaiser THOUGHT he should be in control. However, it seems that both his father and grand-father were likewise dominated by Bismarck, who in effect was a German "shogun".

The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 was the beginning of power brokers under the kings starting wars. Napoleon III wife and the cabinet are the reason that war started. Same with WWI. The Kaiser was not happy about going to war but felt he had no choice with Russia and French flanking Germany and moving for more power.

@@kissmy_butt1302 What's sad is that all sides thought the war would be brief.

@@yannick245 On paper the kaiser was more powerful than the more representative King of England and the Tsar was even more powerful , but Wilhelm and Nicholas were to weak persons so they were easily overruled by ambitious politicians and generals.

Yes times are hard these days. William, Duke of Normandy and King of England was my 27th great grandfather, and all I have is a three bedroom semi. Oh well.

@@Simonsvids you was robbed of the crown my lord …

@@Simonsvids Depends where your 'semi' is?

@@mashbury da king of da norf

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@@ARx-mb6ig I just mean this wasn't a miscommunication, a mistranslation of a German expression, a sloppy word choice by the Kaiser. Sometimes I think in my head a man only speaking German...or a thick German accent slightly uncomfortable with English and preferring German. This is untrue

@@ARx-mb6ig Wilhelm II was a grandson of Queen Victoria & used to visit England while growing up with his mother.

There is an audio recording of the Kaiser speaking perfect English with a slight German accent.

What words?

I prefer my history told as it happened. My favorite example is Henry Ford, He did both great good and evil. He helped us win WWII, but was also a antisemitic Natzi sympathizer.

Kaiser Wilhelm was actually a benevolent king. But he's never been given much credit for his part in European history...

same thing with our country Iran, people used to see the Shah as a brutal dictator that stomped any chance of Democracy in our country back in 60's and 70's(rise of mosadegh who was a left-leaning democratic leader)but after the revolution and how the Islamic Party brutally took over and dismantled all the other parties involved in the revolution, the Shah(Mohammad Reza Pahlavi)is now known as a great guy even though he was a King and head of a Monarchy, he actually kinda left on his own instead of sending in the military to try and crush the revolution.(not that he would have succeeded in that)

@@Smudgeroon74 the problem with Wilhelm II was that he was a benovolent Kaiser who really wanted to do as good as his father (who united Germany, so high bar) but had no fucking clue what he was doing. Especially when it came to diplomacy. That's mainly because he wasn't meant to do the job. His brother was, who died within a year of getting on the throne

Similar to Cuba, where after 60+ years of Castroite communism Batista doesn't look so bad.

It just freaks me out that Europe still has backwards culture like princes and kings. It's just the opposite of what you'd expect from such amazingly superior, sophisticated people that constantly lecture others on their inferior culture. Most sane countries expelled or hanged their worthless royalty long ago.

Interesting what its like being a friend of a prince. Any changes in your life or is it more or less the same

@@MarvoloSalazar my life is totally the same. He is a pretty normal kid, although you could definitely tell he had grown up very privileged. And very conservative, which is strange compared to all the other young Germans I know. He was an intern at the company I used to work at in Omaha, NE. Normal dude, other than the fact that he grew up in a castle!

@@patricka.7260 Nice sounds great thanks mate. Not everyday you get to hear about such experiences

@@patricka.7260 Has he ever shared his views on his family's rule or Hitler in general. Like does he hold him accountable for pretty much being sidelined or he couldn't care less

@@sd01 George V was a cousin, The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip Mountbatten (Battenburg) a distant relative. As was Earl Louis Mountbatten. The British Royal Family is basically of German descent going back to the House of Hanover (George I to William IV). Queen Victoria was the first Monarch to distance the Monarchy from Germany and banned the speaking of German at court including her husband Prince Albert (but not the teaching of it to the children). George V finally removed any direct link by changing the Family name from the triple barrelled German one to Windsor. Queen Elizabeth II did eventually accept her husbands name and the later child after Andrew (Edward) is a Mountbatten-Windsor.

@@tonys1636 Prince Philip was not a Mountbatten. He just adopted the name after his naturalization as a British citizen because he was a ward of his maternal uncle Lord Mountbatten. He was born a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg (aka the House of Glucksburg) as a Prince of Greece and Denmark. The House was a junior branch of the House of Oldenburg which ruled the state of Oldenburg in the German Empire.

Well Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were Kaiser Wilhelm’s grandparents. Making George V a first cousin. It also means that Wilhelm’s tree goes back George III, the last “king of America.”

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Kaiser is fool Kaiser is puppet of Hindenburg

@@ancientruth5298 i don't support what he does but i appreciate how much he love his country

I love his rolls

Even the Romanian Kaiser?

How does he find all of these stories?

​@@gardenman3I can imagine hours of research from memoirs and museums with telegrams and recorded correspondence. ^_^ Each country has different archives.

The Ronettes said it best "Stop in the name of love before you break my heart...think it over"!

That's probably true, as Ludwig Beck was to be named regent had the coup succeeded, and you don't name your head of state regent unless you intend to establish a monarchy.

It's lucky when they were thrown, the family jewels weren't damaged.

These pretend to be royals are all over Europe. They thrive and feed the fire of royalist nationalists who would eagerly restore them only to see their own countries treasuries robbed. Royalty has not changed in thousands of years.

So does the House of Habsburg in Austria.

Yes and they are more respected than the "Democratic" leaders in Berlin

Well, to be technical, Germany DOESN'T have princes or heirs to the Monarchies because the Monarchies legally do not exist anymore. They were actively destroyed by the Republic in 1918-1919, and so all aristocratic titles have no legal significance in and of themselves. The aristocrats maintain the titles as an affectation and some people in society will honor them for it, but the titles entitle them to little of consequence under German Law as it stands. The "restoration" of property to some aristocrats is being done on grounds of personal property rights, the State having illegally taken a lot of assets from aristocrats during the last century or so. Georg Friedrich is, legally, just a common German citizen getting private property returned to him by the government. The fact that much of that property was used by his family in the past to conduct Affairs of State doesn't change that the property itself was not State Property when being used as such.

must have thought "Ah finally! I didn't even have to go to Germany, Germany came to me!"

@@tricksor6589 and so we meet again

I've also read a lot of German generals came to visit the Kaiser and pay their respects which PO'd Adolf royally, no pun intended. So he had an SS guard detachment assigned to the estate to keep it from happening again. However, a lot of SS officers who were ex-Imperial army came by to visit and got in with no problem! Hitler just threw his hands up and forgot about it. I don't know if any of the above is true but it's a good story just the same!

Well Shirer is usually pretty reliable. He actually saw a lot of the stuff he wrote about.

@@MightyMezzo Shirer was on-site up to Germany's declaration of war on the US when of course he had to get out of the country. Shirer's book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" was so well done that to my knowledge it's never been out of print.

same, then you realise it’s past midnight…

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Good point. Slight correction, it’s the Bundeswehr. Also it’s not called the Kriegsmarine (War Navy) any more, now it’s just Marine (Navy).

Is it still luftwaffe for the air force (as I've heard some say), or has it changed

@@prussianangler No the correct/official description was Bundesmarine and changed to Deutsche Marine in ( not 100% sure) the early 2000 years but in short they call it Marine , Kriegsmarine was part of the Wehrmacht. In the DDR/GDR it was Volksarmee, Volksmarine and Luftstreitkräfte LSK if i remember well

@@Sturminfantristif you want to put it like that, it would also be Deutsches Heer and die Deutsche Luftwaffe… Deutsche Marine in the context would be what we would call „Doppel-Gemoppelt“.

Sadly enough not His Imperial And Royal Highness Georg Friedrich von preußen Has dropped the property claims Beaceuse the legal case could last longer than 10 years

I hope it stays in a museum

Is it really theirs though? Question with former Monarchies turned Republics is to determine where Family property ends and state property begins. Also, according to German law a family disowned by the Soviets or the East Germans after WW2 was only eligible for compensation if they could prove they had no "serious" ties to the Nazis. With multiple family members having risen into the higher officer ranks not only within the Wehrmacht but also the SS that point alone would be doubtful.

No most of it was stolen anyway …the royal houses and aristocracy of Old Europe were nothing more than early gangsters , robber baron s and strong men /,enforcers who consolidate wealth and power through subterfuge ,violence , interbreeding alliances and diplomacy and war over centuries …then they turned on the rest of the world with slavery and Colonialism…very interesting histories …great traditions …but not to be eulogised …or romanticised..that’s just childish …the world has moved on

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Not like ge had much choice, thr Germans didn’t want him and the Belgians and French would hage hanged him

And Chris Plummer had an amazing resemblence to the old Kaiser, makeup notwithstanding.

So very true

UK same tang

Let's Go Brandon ..

The American Hohenzollern orange replicant lacks the finesse of his German counterparts.

@@skwalka6372 very true

I would have given him my standard answer to blue blooded giving themselves airs: you are like potatoes. The worthwhile parts are under the earth😂

Only on youtube do we find idiots like you bragging about being disrespectful

As I recall, in a British equivalent, the title is either by inheritance or as a a gift from the Monarch. The Commission as an officer is direct from the Crown and the officer thus stands in actual lieu of the Monarch. Thus, whatever the title, the correct form of address from a junior service person to a commissioned officer is simply “Sir/Ma’am”.

@john fisk correct, hence my calling him Sir. He complained but was told I was correct. It was after several weeks of his attitude that I checked out his family history.

Yea his Imperial and Royal Highness Georg Friedrich Prince Of Prussia has dropped the property claims Beaceuse the legal case could possibly last for 10 more years so he basically gave up

@@palastofhistory4026 Fair enough. I wouldn't want to wait 10 years for that either to be fair, I don't think anyone has that much patience

And he wouldn‘t have any legal chance in court. The law he based his claims on, has clause that forbids to give back property to the families of individuals who „ furthered or advanced the Nazi cause“

tbh I think he should have just gotten his property back considering that he's also decent of prince louis ferdinand of prussia who himself was part of the german resistance And He even was part of operation valkyrie And his older brother prince wilhelm the oldest son of the crown prince was also part of the german resistance and was also directly involved in a coup plot against hitler And of course kaiser wilhelm II who openly opposed hitler maney times

@@palastofhistory4026 Nothing wrong with taking castles or palaces to make it accessable for the public. They paid for it and built it in the first place.

The House of Windsor is German, so...

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Der Sieger schreibt die Geschichte, weshalb du in deinem Leben nur Propaganda Müll gelernt hast. Stalin hat in der Zeit 50 Millionen Menschen getötet und du schwätzt da von der monströsen Nazi Geschichte. Witzfigur

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My (now ex) wife, before turning to the dark side, once decided against purchasing a coffee maker because it was made by Krupp. Personally, I tend to look for things not made in China, but with little success.

@@dougearnest7590 Hirohito had the blood of Pearl Harbor and following on his hands in a way as nothing the Kaiser's family had for WW2. The Japanese Imperial Dynasty continued. It hasn't political power as it once did but is wealthy still. The outcomes of war are unpredictable. In a real sense, that part of WW2 between the USA and Japan was started by Commodore Perry in 1857, with his gunboats forcing Japan to open up its markets. It wanted be left alone. It also rightly didn't want be a colony of some European power nor the USA's vassal. In less than 50 years, it built a navy so powerful it was able wipe out the Czar's navy in 1905. And so followed its further military development.

@@orlandofurioso7958 - One of the things that first impressed me about Dr. Felton is that he didn't tiptoe around Japanese atrocities - a subject near and dear to my heart as I spent time in Japan and saw just how little "honor" actually meant to them even in the decades following the war. They still refer to their convinced war criminals as martyrs of the bad Americans. But ... while I don't like seeing my money going to Japan, it isn't the Japanese using U.S. money to make preparations to make war on the United States.

@@dougearnest7590 Fundamentally, your last sentence contains the seed as to the reason the Japanese were allowed bury responsibility for its war crimes. It was almost probably true General Yamashita was not guilty of war crimes, but definitely true he did not get a fair trial. Atrocities committed in Manila were ordered by an Admiral, name forgotten, whereas Yamashita had ordered Manila be abandoned. By the time in 1949 that admiral was to face trial on the open and shut case against him, the USA acquitted him as a political decision as China was the enemy and we wanted Japan as an ally against China. I forget the Japanese Colonel who infamously is pictured beheading a POW, whose diary we had bragging about how well he did it. He was let go too, moved to Brazil, and died there in his old age. Then the head of Japan's infamous Unit 714, as I recall the number, who had operated on American pilots in gruesome experiments, without anesthetic, and who developed Japanese biochemical and biological weapons used so gruesomely in China, was allowed go free in exchange for the results of all the unit's experiments. Joseph Mengele was a piker compared to that doctor. Things like that aren't taught to American students. The Japanese got off light. Put much of that at Dugout Doug MacArthur's feet. The Japanese as who were executed are enshrined in a Shinto Temple. I am mindful too that we stole this country from the Indians, fair and square. We're not going to give it back. But the idea that there was a noble savage is itself a gross fiction. They were committing atrocities amongst themselves, that is, to other tribes, the Comanche the worst offenders. The white man simply could commit them against the Indians at an efficiency level with technology they couldn't defeat. Man as man is fallen.

@@orlandofurioso7958 - Nobody can argue with any of what you say -- they can only foam at the mouth and call you bad names.

Not really mocked, I'm pretty sure the exact response from Hitler was "What an idiot..."

The Kaiser did such a great job during ww1 with his armies....

His eardrums were burst by the bomb explosion.

Wakes you all up!