My generation of docs all learned about Erb's palsy (brachial plexus traction injury). It wasnt 'rare' until comparatively recently, and for many was the 'price' of having been born alive
Funny to hear the voice of Carson in Downton Abbey talking about breech birth and the birth canal. 😂 Carson, the butler, would rather have died than mention details of women's (a queen's!!!) anatomy. 😂
The funny thing is Nicky was quite happy while he wasn't T'sar those days as a gardener mucking around was his happiest. I bet he was happy as he was passing from life to death. The last thing he wanted was to be the leader.
And the people have never recovered , all that trauma passed down through generations and still these creatures are doing fine and leaching off the people like they always did .
@@Rocanala I know hence why i'm British and want them abolished and living on the streets .. It's not British as such but the European royal families as a whole including the British created and founded all things divisive , they are epitome of everything wrong in the world.
Excellent research, but the documentary engages in a bit of cliché laying so much of the blame for the war at the feet of Wilhelm II. Undoubtedly, he was a terrible monarch, but it's not even mentioned that what started the war was the assassination of Francis Joseph's son. I think the closest parallel to the Austrian reaction would the the irrational behaviour of the Bush administration after 9/11. That makes Wilhelm's contribution to the war more comparable to Tony Blair's role in the Iraq war at least in the early stages.
Who would have been vilified if the Germans and their allies had won the Great War? After WWII the victors gave a pass to vilans they considered valuable. National interest supersedes justice.
Good documentary with excellent production quality. Only thing that bothers me is despite giving background of Wilhelm, it still has bias against him and portrays him in the negative live as to blame him entirely for WW1 which is NOT true at all. He wasn't the sole reason for either creating those circumstances or triggering the world war. Yes, he may have played some bad moves but we all know kings don't make the rules, their handlers/advisors (politicians) do. 😅 Both of these cousin kings were ill advised by their corresponding "intellectual bureaucrats" whose loyalties weren't with their kings but rather sinister forces which pushed Europe into dark ages not once but twice!!! WW1 and WW2 didn't just happen out of blue or over a family feud as these surface level documentaries would portray but rather it was a extremely well planned and prepared conspiracy which took decades and generations to plant seeds of hate, betrayal, corruption, espionage, strategy to engulf Europe into flames of war just so a handful of "secret societies" can takeover the world. And they succeeded. Research Berlin-Baghdad railways, Rhodes-Milner kindergarten, James Corbett documentary on ww1, the unnecessary war by Patrick Buchanan.
Absolutely 💯. Today, we have the present day puppet masters, who, e.g. are packing the Supreme Court to make very favorable decisions in support of tbe billionaires.
The Germans didn’t start ww1. The Serbians started a war with Austria Hungary. The Russians then declared on the side of Serbia and then the Germans on the side of Austria. The Germans and Russians siding with their own brethren is predictable. The French then decided to declare war on Germany for very spurious reasons. And the British getting involved was ridiculous at best.
My daughter was born with herbs palsy and at 14 months old she got full use of her left arm with the help of physical therapy and a momma bear who started the exercises the day she came home
It's interesting. Though, I'd argue that the strained and difficult relationship between Wilhelm II and his mother was pushed along by a lot of machinations by Bismarck behind the scenes that were largely designed to also feed many of the things that were seen to be "rebellious" in Wilhelm.
As a former British soldier, now 70 years old and who had a great time in what was then West Germany from 1972 onwards when I was posted to Paderborn, I feel really sorry for Kaiser William who was subjected to unnecessary pain because of his disabilities and whose mother seemed never to have really loved him because of those disabilities. I realize that times and attitudes were different then, but had he been shown real love and support, his life and the history of the world might have been very different.
It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage documentary about German kaiser who had a crippled arm and fought Britain 🇬🇧 during the WW1 ..I think Britain 🇬🇧 severely challenged and fronted the German empire ambitions becoming a naval superpower and Germany having colonials beyond highly seas...similar to a great Britain 🇬🇧 at that time.
I feel bad for Kaiser Wilhelm II because I am disabled too. Not his condition but I knew his pain. I am not German by the way. Still The Great War 1914 was a tragedy overall for this royal family.
I cannot imagine all his suffering. The letters may or may not be borderline incestuous - after all children long for their parent's love, support, and attention. (It IS interesting, though, that the opposite can happen - and I'm sure people can see that in some families; and, e.i. the children/ child is so well supported that the children/ child feels extremely entitled to br/ do/ have anything that they want.)
If his grandma Queen Victoria and grandpa Prince Albert, Kaiser will not join a war against his grandparents country. For sure, it will be weekly meet ups with grandchild
A serbian killed the austrian keizer son and only son to the trone. Austria declared war on Serbia. Who began ww1 again? Russia could not sit on theyr hands and declared war on austria, and helped Serbia. Tell us again, who started ww1 again? Germany saw how its ally Austria came to fight war on 2 fonts and decided to help and declared war on Russia. France was an ally of Russia, declared war on Germany. Im getting confused now, who started ww1? No, we still blamed Germany.
How millions of perfectly abled people led Europe to ruin while being perfectly capable of banding together and ousting their kings and queens from power if they really didn't want to wage a global conflict. Millions of people don't allow one man to tell them what to do unless they actually want to do what he tells them to do. Take responsibility for your actions, normal people.
Yet, in any other context, people seem outraged at the truth that Germany brought the world both ww1 and 2; to that end, people are supposed to forget that the sanctions germany imposed upon russia to allow them to exit ww1 that far exceeded thosr imposed upon germany for causing ww1 (that then was the german outrage that supposedly led to ww2).
There is no Royal family in Germany. German law abolished the offices and titles of the Geman royal families. There is no person in Germany who is legally entitled to call himself "Prince". Accordingly this documentary can not be taken seriously because it purports to call a great grandson of the Kaiser as "Prince", even though he was born many years after the Kaiser was removed from office and stripped of his titles . I wonder whether you would follow the same misleading error by calling the grandsons of the English dukes who had their titles removed by English law in 1917 "Dukes"? It is
Royalty claimed their position as a divine right from deity. If their position came from god, they'd be perfect, right? If they had a disabled kid, then maybe the peasant might rise up and revolt.
In the days before reliable anaesthesia, and long before antibiotics, removing a limb was extremely risky. And then he'd still be "a cripple" because he was missing an arm. Honestly, the past was the absolute worst.
As Egyptian it amaze me every time how the British always capable of twisting the event of history to show themselves as the victims . it is enormous talent 🤣
WWI is a lesson about illegitimate despots and the damage they wreak. Next time someone complains about the West interfering in Iraq, Libya, Syria... don't forget this video.
if nothing else, Kaiser Bill had a splendid moustashe! the Mad Hatler, A H tried to one up him, with a silly chopped down tooth brush "" stash. He still lost a second war with perfidious Albion... oh well...
One of the Beauty of African monarchal systems is that it is merit based and there are elders who monitor the behavior of their king or queen and can remove them if they are found unstable.
I enjoyed the in depth discussion of Wilhelms deformity and his upbringing, however there is no mention of his relationship with his grandfather Wilhelm I. Wilhelm the first was a strong militaristic reactionary as opposed to Frederick, his son who was a progressive reformer. Little Wilhelm spent much time with his grandfather and learned from him.
That is a pretty tired narrative. Germany wasn’t even the first to mobilize. If anything Russia did a lot more to escalate things. France also wanted it in 1914 to get revenge and territory lost in 1871
Okay, but still, what happens to a child greatly affects his/her responses in the future. A different Kaiser would probably ignore Russia and France or solve things in different ways.
