One of the last true monarchs. If I had a Delorean, I would go back 110 years to try to smooth things over between the Empires. Europe was murdered in the Great War.
@@austerlitzyorktown2928 You're a fucking idiot, Imperial Germany and Nazi Germany are completely different. Anything that you liberals hate is called a Nazi. You don't even know the definition of Nazism and Imperial Germany. Nazis didn't even exist when Kaiser Wilhelm II was leader.
@@austerlitzyorktown2928 he didn't run away, he was forced to abdicate the throne by the Entente. And he was not the only leader in the war that sent millions to their deaths, what about all the other countries? If anything, you should be blaming Austria-Hungary instead since they started the war, Germany was an ally and was only helping Austria. I'm tired of little kids like you who think you know history when you don't. Always blaming Germany for a war they didn't even start. There are no bad guys in WWI, every country did horrible shit yet you want to blame Wilhelm and Germany. Thats how brainwashed you are, you don't even look at the perspective of both sides and only want to look out one.
Hobbs Charles who tells the austrian that if they will be on their side what ever they do ? The Fucking degenerated Germany. Who declare War on France ? The Fucking degenerated Germany. Who violated a neutral country (belgium) ? Fucking degenerated Germany. Who killed thousand of innocent civilians in occupied France and belgium? Fucking degenerated Germany. History is a serious matter. You nazi pangermanist.
Adding in color(or perhaps this was originally filmed in color) really changes the viewer's perception of these old images. They look fresher and more modern. Thanks for the upload.
Germany not only owns Europe now, but now she knows how to deal with the countries that act like Hormone-happy teenagers who want to beat the crap out of her. There's no way she'll let that happen again. She says, "Go against each other all you want U.S.A. and Russia. We're done with this."
it's amazing how color makes such a difference. Black & white images always create sort of a distance between then and now, but thanks to colorization that distance shrinks. Good job!
Oh Kaiser Wilhelm, you lay in State, waiting in Doorn.. In your wake, left Forlorn, the German Reich has lost its way, needs it Kaiser to break the slate! A new dawn on this day! The German Folk awaits its well fought fate!
Wilhelm travelled to England to discuss for a European Financing of the Bagdad Railway Program, he was mucked and the british Press started a slander Campaign against GermanyHeadline :Germany must be destroyed. Wilhelms true Peace offer 1916 was rejected reason Sykes Picot, Hussein McHohan letters and later the Balfour Deklaration. THE greed for Land and Oil and ENVY to the German Economic success, and the communist revolution have been the reason for Hitlers Raise and all Trouble we have now, also in Syria. England and company gave half Europa and half the world to the Communist because of their hate and Greed.Later they lost all Oil and countries and what they lost you see now in die Wealth of the arabian States. ENGLAND STILL SINGS THAT Britannianrules the Waves and Dry the BREXIT. They Dry to do what they have done for 400 Year and more.Pay attention to the Secret speech of Churchill 1936.All seems Secret in England also Sykes Picot was Secret until the Moment Lenin published it 1917 in the Prawda .All of thisYou can Proof in the INTERNET. THINK about and write a new version Chapter in the history Book.
Its amazing to see pictures of Albrecht in Color. I am a direct descendant of him, he is thrice my great grandfather. You have made me smile by coloring images once thought long gone in our family. We greatly appreciate the love that is shown to him, as we all know the members of Hohenzollern family are the rightful rulers of Germany.
¡Que gran trabajo!. Gracias por permitirnos ver estas imagenes de personajes y epocas tan lejanas, que tan solo conociamos en blanco y negro, en su color original. En verdad se agradece.
Ein Kaiser der das damalige Deutschland modernisiert und (was viele nicht wahr haben wollen) auch liberalisiert hat. Sicher eines der bewundernswertesten Staatsoberhäupter im Deutschland des 20. Jahrhunderts.
I like the tradition and honor the nobility brings. Some of the best figures in world history have been monarchs. I also don't like how decisions are made by the popularity of the decision not by how good the decision is. There have been examples were great ideas have not been implemented because they were unpopular. Also, democracy does not necessarily equal freedom Wilhelm's Germany was a very free country.
In the pictures of his exile in the Netherlands he almost looks like Don Quixote with that beard. Wilhelm gets a bad rap, like usually happen with those who are on the losing side of History, but let's be fair. He gets compared unfavourably to his father Frederick III, to other monarchs and heads of state contemporary to him and above all to Bismarck, but one would love to know what either of those would have done if they were in his shoes. Even the cunning and cautious Bismarck wasn't above reproach. He made blunders of his own too, like for instance the Kulturkampf, goaded by the liberals and driven by his anti-catholic and anti-polish bogotry, or the bloody way he intended to deal with social-democrats in 1890. Even his role as honest-broker in the Conference of Berlin backfired. So in some respects Wilhelm was wisest that the much praised Bismarck. Wilhelm was, I think, more open-minded that the iron chancellor. Germany enjoyed 26 years of peace under the reign of Wilhelm, with stability and a visible improvement of the life for the mass of the population. Despite that, the Kaiser was the target of a campaign of slander and ridicule both abroad and in Germany, in the press and in the Reichstag, all of which he suffered stoically. In the long run it damaged his self- confidence. And yet he's routinely caricaturized as a medieval despot. The attempts of a rapprochment with France, Britain and Russia were unsuccessful, but how could had been otherwise, when the three of them were pursuing a policy of encirclement against Germany? The single-minded determination with which Germany fought during four years is a testament to the unity of the people around the Kaiser. When the German government saw the war lost it requested an armistice, but Wilson rebuffed those overtures with delaying tactics. They didn't want Germany defeated, they wanted the fall of the Kaiser. This provoked the uprising of november and drove the country into anarchy and revolution, which should had been avoided. The fall of the monarchy benefited no one, except the communists and national-socialists. Political assassinations, street battles, armed uprisings, all these things became commonplace after 1918. It wasn't so under Wilhelm II reign
Not the case; diplomatic relations with the UK were improving until the July crisis. It was the Kaiser's decision to not renew a non-aggression treaty with Russia and the Entente was defensive in posture. Indeed, the UK was not treaty bound to defend France, only Belgium. Without an invasion of Belgium and France by Germany, the UK would have remained aloof from European politics as it intends to do post-2019 and Germany would have continued its economic growth without the burden of a large empire. In fact, the parallels are uncanny as the UK is just as pre-occupied with the Irish question now as it was with the Home Rule Bill in 1914 and Germany is the largest economy in the EU.
Your work looks really awesome. It´s much easier to imagine how the world and the people looked in the past with so high quality colorized photographs. You should try to sell your work to popular history magazines and TV channels.
Just been reading up on him. Poor fella, with his deformed left hand after birth trauma- forced to ride a horse by his mother until he was in tears. This lead to further psychological traumas and an inferiority complex against his English cousins. A psychotherapist would have a field day with this chap. He should have had more cuddles growing up
It was an Englishman who took over his education; this person was cruel and sadistic and caused a great deal of harm to Wilhelm as a young boy. Why he had an obsession with his english cousins, I will never understand. His oldest cousin, son of Queen Victoria arranged the Entente and the encirclement of Germany, leading to WW1. The whole story is sickening, because while that dastardly bastard was plotting against Germany, the mother of the Russian Tsar, Tsarina Dagmar (of Danmark) was plotting against Germany as well.We know the results-
Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht von Preußen wird heute zu Unrecht geschmäht. Die frechesten Stimmen wagen es sogar, ihn als Vorläufer von Hitler zu betiteln ...! Er war ein Tölpel und hat Deutschland in die Schieflage brachte. Aber keiner hat sich mehr vor Ausbruch des Krieges den Frieden gewünscht als er. Und auch wenn er geschickter gewesen wäre, hätte er den Frieden nicht sichern können. Keiner konnte das bei der Wirtschaftskraft des Reiches, die für die anderen Länder unannehmbar war.
All wars are bankers wars. WW1 and WW2 were two parts of the same financial enterprize. Which countries fight each other is almost random and irrelevant to the bankers, that's why nobody can really explain why WWI started. /watch?v=5hfEBupAeo4
They shouldn't have fought each other for a much simplier reason: 10 million people died, and many others were gravely injured, had lost loved ones, or were traumatised for life. Moreover, in a way WW1 was a cause of WW2.
Yes, he was 1913 in Berlin for the royal mariage with Wilhelms II daughter Princes Viktoria Luise and Prince Ernst August of Hannover, who was also a Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
that's one thing i miss about today's European monarchies they all wear business suits and look like bankers ... i love the old days where they dressed all up in uniforms. all the time and you knew they were royals
Because Fridech Wilhelm was married to Empress Victoria of England and Prussia had close ties with Britain which why he wore a Scottish a costume or maybe he liked Scotland.
@Alexander1868 You have done a Fine Job, Alexander! Thank you so much. By the way, I thought the old Kaiser looked better with that full beard. Too bad he didn't use it before his exile.
Congratuletions!Yours are very interesting pictures!Have you a Facebook profile too where I can write and share your works? Es lebe der König, der Vater im Lande!
if you think about it the world would have been better if there was no war and germany stayed a monarch.Why did the black hand have to kill the one austrian who wanted to help them?ignorance is mans greatest flaw
The older Kaiser Wilhelm II would have made a far better Kaiser than the younger Kaiser Wilhelm II. In his youth, he was self-serving, arrogant, an egotist and a jingoist with an inflated world-view of himself and the German state. The older Wilhelm from his journal entries was a clairvoyant, humble and experienced. If that Kaiser Wilhelm II had ruled the German nation, the outlook of Europe would be different today,with Germany being the largest European nation and still a great military power.
@59Skott @59Skott Look my deviantart profile.:) kraljaleksandar is my username on deviantart. I colorize with Photoshop. I try to use real colors of the Prussian uniform not just guessing. Thanks for the comment.
All of Queen Victoria's diaries have been preserved and I believe she did write one diary entry which says something along the following lines: "I worry about my grandson, I fear what he may do".
