What if the German Empire Survived? 

...and they STILL demonetized it.

Based second Reich appreciator .

What if the German, Russian and Habsburg Empires all survived WWI? Great video.

Very happy to see you again josh! Suggestion: What if Queen anne' s son william survived? No union with hanover.

Hey Josh. I had a crappy day and this makes it a little easier. Keep doing what your doing man.

A couple of points: 1) Wilson didn't just want to get rid of the Kaiser but monarchy itself. He wasn't willing to negotiate with any form of Germany (or Austria, or Hungary) that still had a monarch. 2) The other German Kings, Grand Dukes, Dukes and Sovereign Princes didn't owe fealty to the German Emperor. If that had been a condition of German Unification then it wouldn't have happened. The office of President of the North German Confederation was linked to the King of Prussia, so when the southern German states basically joined the NGC it was decided to rename the NGC to the German Empire and rename the NGC President to German Emperor (not Empire of Germany or Emperor of Germany). There's a lot of great political wrangling by Bismarck and Crown Prince Friedrich to even pull off this name as King Wilhelm hated it and wanted nothing to do with it. Like the NGC President before it, the German Emperor was a first among equals situation. 3) Assuming Wilson can be brought down a notch from his "All Monarchies Must Die" stance (and he wasn't excluding Great Britain from that either), I doubt the Allies would have accepted Prince Eitel Friedrich as Regent. He fought in the war and he didn't have the best reputation. Max of Baden's plan was to have either Empress Victoria Augusta (who would naturally refuse and gone into Exile with her husband) or Crown Princess Cecilie serve as Regent for her underage son Prince Wilhelm. 4) Technically, the German Empire was more democratic than Great Britain, as a higher percentage of the population had the right to vote. The issue was the three tiered voting system in the largest state of Prussia (2/3rds of the German Empire's land area). The individual German states retained day-to-day control of their Armies (which only came under the Emperor's direct control in times of war) and other such powers. Only the German Navy was a Federal level armed force in peace time, which is why it had to go on a PR campaign for it's expansion (see: German Navy League).

Finally my favorite what if came back.Idea what if France helped rebels in Habsurg monarchy in 1664.

What if the Spring Offensive succeeded and Germany was able to, in the closing months, make a more favourable treaty to end the war?

thanks for this ive been waiting so long for this video

Woodrow Wilson was one of the most evil men in history.

Great video Can you make one where the kingdom of prussia survives as a monarchy after ww1

Suggestion: What if France stayed neutral in the American Revolutionary War?

I like your historical analysis of things that happened before the scenario

The legend is back 🎉🎉

It did. It's called the EU. They finally managed to achieve all their objectives without firing a bullet.

What useful content you provide, Josh Sullivan. We truly did need the 205th German Empire alternate history scenario

Superb video!

The king is back

I still don't understand This hatred for Wilhelm II, I thought Lavader had already made It clear in his nearly 2 hour long essay that Wilhelm was innocent during his entire reign. It's heartbreaking 😞 In case that you are curious the video in question is "The Peace Kaiser: The Innocence of Kaiser Wilhelm II"

Great job with the video.

Why not just taking a step back and make Wilhelm II listen to Bismarck. And the German Empire never leaves a triparty alliance with Either Uk or Russia. That would keep the Empire intact and the emperor in position, maybe keeping the German Empire's Superpower state.

Great video!

What if Bavaria won against Austria in the Spanish war of Secession

Welcome back Josh ❤❤❤❤❤

The German Empire was a federal absolute/constitutional monarchy, it had a parliamentary system called the Reichstag. If the German Empire survived, I don't believe that the Allies would have left it alone if the Great War still had happened. I would instead argue that if Germany not entered on the side of the Austrians, the Empire would have survived. Also I read in the comments section referring to the German Empire as the Second Reich, that is not true. the Nazis made that up to legitimise their power over Germany and to claim territory in Europe.

Mein Kaiser! Amazing vid Josh!

Good content

dehydrations!

Howdy, Josh.

You know, I’ve always wondered what the function of the sub-monarchies within the German empire was, but could never seem to find a satisfactory explaination, at least not in English.

Why not Crown Prince Wilhelm?

it would be so epic

Germany in WW2 with all the Jewish scientist working for them and be able to incorporate and get help from nation freed from Soviet Russia, they would probably win the war in the east and never involve USA with the European theater.

Great video!! My only question is why Kaiser Friedrich IV and not Wilhelm III?

Can you do what if the spartachist uprising succeded?

I guess the funny mustache man actually becomes a painter in this timeline

A truly goated timeline.

What if Austria united the Holy Roman Empire?

Suggestion: what if Martians invade during the napoleonic wars

nice

Next/future video "what if the Brazilian Empire survived aka Emperor Pedro II was never overthrown?"

Josh, make an what if the carlists took over Spain or I’ll take away your wolfram buying license

Here’s another one for this time period: What If the Treaty of Versailles wasn’t so harsh?

Where’s the what if part? You just gave history for 8 minutes and spent the rest of the time explaining how it’d happen with next to no time being devoted to discussing the results.

never heard of the name Eitel till now

Sorry, but why would they crown the Kaiser's second son, Prinz Eitel Friedrich, instead of my mate, the crownprince's eldest son, Prinz Wilhelm? I understand that they'd want to rule out the crownprince because of his involvement in the Great War, but Eitel Friedrich had no children at all and was involved in the war himself. The crownprince, on the other hand, had 4 sons at the time already. And a regency for the young (12 years old by the end of the war) princeling would be exactly what the democratic-liberal fractions would love to achieve.

3:40 wait isnt Germany already a Constitutional Monarchy before the war? (It was semi constitutional monarchy anyway soo 🤔😄😅)

There are some things I don't quite agree with. The push for the Kaiseres "full power" would come during the great depression as "popular" as the Monarchie was many did still blame it for the living conditions during and after the war and with the Boom of the Golden 20's many would be content with the Kaiser just being there as fore Austira there is still a strong possibility that Austria joins Germany to be Greater Germany and the war with Poland would at worst lead to war with France because depending on when and how Germany demands the return of Prussia from Poland England may still the policy of Appeasement and with no Suddenten Crises and Czech Annexiaon and Poland having the USSR on its border they may just hand it over if the Germans agree to secure there independence from Russia! but over all good Video

actually, Eitel Friedrich had no children as a result of a divorce or so iirc, so he would have no heir presumptive. it would make more sense for Crown Prince Wilhelm to be crowned, as he was the Crown Prince and was the eldest son of Wilhelm II, and he also had children by 1918, so they could also appoint Crown Prince Wilhelm's eldest son, Prince Wilhelm (who was born in 1906, meaning that he was 12 as of 1918), but under a regency until he is 18. another choice would also be Wilhelm II's younger brother, Prince Henry (as Kaiser Heinrich I), who despite not having a much longer lifespan after 1918, had more in common with Friedrich III iirc, so he would likely work as a candidate.

I would like to make a request if it's possible could you do a video if the British empire did not collapse

Unser platz unter der Sonne

I have a question why did you make Eitel Friedrich the Kaiser because he wasn't the firstborn so it's unlikly that he would have become the Kaiser. In know that this is a finctional scenario but i wanna know why you made him the Kaiser.

What if Indian National Army successful capture North East India in 1944 can you in future

should really make a video on if Belisarius had reforged the western Roman Empire

What a chubby little kaiser!

0:21 Dehydrations

The only plus side I could see of the German monarchy actually surviving and coming back to power in this scenario is that there would be no Holocaust

what if wilson just accepted to negotiate with germany as it was

Hi man, could I try and turn this into a hoi4 mod (try)

What of the country the republic of rif survived?

I guess Josh & everyone hasn't heard of the Hearts of Iron 4 Kasierreich timeline?

Source?

I like to think that the 50's could've had a cold war between germany and france

heil mein Kaiser

One question: why Prince Eitel and not the crown Prince Wilhelm? Was there a reason Baden skipped over him?

idea: what if the Second Mexican Empire (The Habsburg one) Survived?

"paved the way for DEHYDRATIONS" darn the people are thirsty

Damned Wilson...

Somebody remonotize this man

German monarchy never was absolute tho, it was always constitutional and federal, with Wilhelm II giving the parliament full reign before ww1, not even doing something against the SPD, which Wilhelm didn't like. Russia was an absolute monarchy.

Prayers for the restoration of all German Monarchs

What if the Sixtus Affair succeded?

So Wilson was even more pig-headed than I thought...

The Kaiser should have kept his throne.

"Erm we must demonetize history 🤓" -RU-vid

Based video

The sailors weren't the first communist revolutionaries that started a socialist/communist revolution inside of WW1 Germany.

When anyone talks about monarchs loosing authority and the growth of democracy it makes me wanna throw up 🤮

Yay..?

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“Dehydrations” Considering the picture of people at those “camps” was that meant to be a dark joke?

Honestly I think we ahould use their other names: 3rd Reich, Greater German Reich, or use it's party name

Did we just forget about Crown Prince Wilhelm?? Eitel Frederick is the 2nd son

What if Sablin succeeded

What if Crassus and Publius conquered Persia making a third sphere in the civil war This could have been done like Trajan by going through Armenia and then blitzing the capital before Parthiaan forces unite due to the Persia Satrapy military system. Crassus had support of the Greeks within Persia who were still a massive minority at this time. Greek cities joined him for slight victorys, if he were to actually do a competent campaign he could have started uprisings of anti-Persis cultures or at least have gained the support of the Greeks

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What if the Nguyen dynasty survived?

If the German royal family was reinstated to day I can see it being more like the British royal family more of a public figure than a ruling party. quack quack I’m A duck quack quack quack

D E H Y D R A T I O N S !

Do you possibly mean : “What if the German Empire Had Survived?”

Kaiserreich Timeline

Noice

Time east video I don’t recommend anyone watching it

Wat if the Mexican empire survived Emperor Maximilian nd president Juarez worked together?

Gott Mit Uns!

11:04

I thought this was a hoi4 video

Dehydration

But What hallen orther German Monarc Familys

I have seen a big issues with the wau you organise your video the way you explain our timelines event takes too long when you can easily shorten with losing much substance .