Wilhelm II & Franz Joseph I Enjoying Dinner 

Best thing ever to happen in life

Watching this at 1 AM, and I have school tomorrow

Yea me too

while you yourself have dinner

A translation plssssssss. I want to know plsss.

Kaiser

I think the sharpend fork would more be due to his crippled arm so he could not hold both a knife and fork

@@Editorsmurfee8549 That could be another reason, for he was in fact disabled. But given his militeristic mindset I would suspect it not to be the primary reason. At least that's what I've read in an older German biography of Wilhelm II..

Funny how Franz Joseph - who also was very military minded - did the exact opposite. He ate especially slowly because he knew that the course was ended after he finished and he wanted the other guests to be able to eat properly.

George W. Bush had a similar disposition at state dinners, many ambassadors didn't get to finish their food

Good catch!

His other arm in real life was unusable because of the fucked up treatments his mother did on him yes?

@@JBGARINGAN yep nice spotting

@@JBGARINGAN no it was because of birth complications

@Schandoro07 Sad there's no footage of it.

Erm ... it's just a movie. An entertainment. A fantasy. .....

@@theon9575 he's pointing out the historical accuracy of the movie.

This is a scene from the movie "Die Deutschmeister (1955)". It is not historically acurate and the storieline is very dull and dumb. Stanzi (Constance) a young girl from a bakery shop has fallen in love with a young fellow who is member of the Deutschmeister. This is a military corps playing military marshing tunes for the Kaisers army. And this young Deutschmeister has composed a new piece of military music which should be played by the Deutschmeister corps. He already asked his corporal but he had refused him. So Stanzi, his girlfriend, comes up with the idea of putting the letter and the composition in the "Hörnchen" of the Kaiser because she knew the Hörnchen will be eaten by the Kaiser because her aunt is purveyor to the court. She could not know that Wilhelm II instead of Franz Josef would get the Hörnchen. But this is the scene you can watch here. Stanzi by the way was played by Romy Schneider and the aunt by her mother Magda Schneider, who was Hitlers favourite actress. Romy made her first Sissy-movie the same year.

@@yt30417 thanks a lot for sharing and explaining the plot

@@yt30417 "Unterhaltungsfilm".

LoL

@@user-kc6qr5eo1k nije smešno.

@@quakeknight9680 Što šta

@@quakeknight9680 reko sam lol zato što im je trebalo malo više od dvadeset minuta

Trebalo im je 4 godine i obilo im se o glave Polomili Glave sta ces da smo tako u 2 Drugom Svetskom ratu Srbija bibila jedna od Najpoznatijih u Svetu Sta ces

It was not paralyzed it was deformed and smaller how do you think he chopped down trees in exile

He did it with right arm

@@winzigmann2137 so you expect a man picking an axe and chopping a tree with only one arm

@@nepalesepersoniguess5259 yes

@@georgdoert9343 bruh

Did they end up both getting secret music sheets in their bread?

@@zhouwu nay. Just Willy found messages, but asked Franz who they might be addressed to since they started "your majesty". Franz replies there were up to Willy since found in his salzstangerl.

@@kellymcbright5456 Their aides are a bit worried by messages being found in the food, and one is relieved when Wilhelm opens one that is empty.

@@stevekaczynski3793 Yes, i know. It's my mother tongue :)

Thank you much for the translation. I found it amusing the terror/worry from some of the other officers/courtiers.

The Kaiser!

@@CharlesJoseph_MSc The kaisers?

@@GG-10098 what?

Hello

@@GG-10098 I am one of them.

@Schandoro07 he let others chop trees. There's footage of that. He didn't do that by himself

@Schandoro07 I doubt that a man lke him, an older man in 1918, chopped trees by himself

@Schandoro07 he used to chop woods in Doorn with one hand only. And yes, there he did it himself. His handicap was not correctly illustrated in this movie.

Is it bad I was looking for this.

The Kaiser predicts the balance of forces in an upcoming conflict: The central powers appear to be rather shorthanded compared to the Entente...

Serbian government itself was not behind the assassination! A secret organisation was, they even tried to assassinate Prince Aleksander a few times. . Thats why Prince Aleksander of Serbia gave into almost every demand to avoid a war both trade, economic, compensation! But Austria-Hungary already made up there mind to invade Serbia, knowing Serbia will refuse 2 demands which gives away sovereignty! Basically they wanted to occupy Serbia with or without a war stationing troops inside the country and seizing alot of military equipment, Serbia had no choice but war!

@@johnnymlad8472 cool but who tf asked

@@dukekevy6650, Who asked? Who didn't ask? . . Almost all of you have been a fed sh*t for over a century!

@@johnnymlad8472 damn bro like I care lol

@@dukekevy6650, Well some people do want to know believe me, but they can't find credible information thats not western mainstream! I didn't write all that for 1 person for so they can say he or she doesn't care 😂 You choose and believe what you want, it's irrelevant if you care or not. Somebody will take up that information and research it themselves. . Its all about learning bro!

Yeah haha it feels like you are having dinner with them too

Dining with royalty!

You can't blame him, they look stunning

Yep uniform represent discipline

Can't blame the man

All his uniforms were bangers

May I ask for the source? As far as I know the Stuff you Said is false.

Bruh who many kaisers here!?!

@@prussiansolider8087 Hallal

@Nordic Tyr no

@Nordic Tyr so?

@Nordic Tyr so?

Why

@@TheMarianadealmeida World War I.

@@darthknight1 oh I thought he was talking about the movie

@@darthknight1 thank you

Hitler

ok boomer

@@republicofglarnesia186 eh he's not wrong though. Society is dead and we're all longing for something to replace the void.

It was definitely a "moment" for the rich and powerful. But it usually is.

Just 2 of the most powerful men in europe, who will soon declare a war that sentenced millions to their deaths.. Yes, truly living the moment

@@henrylansing9734 Societies always die in the moments of an economical system decaying into its inevitable death, what will come next one may wonder, Socialism? Neo-Feudalism? Who knows, but smartphones are here to stay regardless what system may take root in the next world.

Underrated

Underrated

Bruh, I hate those automated phone calls, some of them are from Virginia telling me about my car extension warranty. But the thing is... I don’t own a car yet.

Now THAT'S funny!

F my dude

Me too brother

😹

Il Piave mormorava calmo è placido al passaggio dei primi fanti il 24 maggio

@Sicilianu lo so e quindi? comunque fratello siciliano

That was honestly the only cool part.

Love it.

Thta's what I always thought, they're amazing!

Despite kind of being a bit decorative, the medals could work as armor if you think about it.

Agreed

Me: Two old men reading a letter without glasses. Totally unrealistic.

@@ThomasL58 I don’t think either of them used glasses in their life. Wilhelm was at least in his 50’s by that time in the video. Compared to Franz-Joseph, he’s quite young.

@@justinpachi3707 Wilhelm used reading glasses in the 1920s and 30s

Awikwow

Prost!🗿🍻

Thanks for the translation.

It really is rich with colors honestly

Its just a film

@@kennooo535 OK?

@@kennooo535 Still old tho. 1955

@@zlNavo what film is it?

Napoleon III the paper-eater

Oh hey grandson

@@miguelpioangel9574 nephew

@@miguelpioangel9574 boyour

@@tiffanyhill-anding8891 is memory is getting worse from exile in St Helena

Why the Frick you keep appearing?

@@edryctan672 I have multiple clones

@@DonMadruga72 Yeah right. If you have multiple clones, Deutsches Reich will still be standing as no one can force you to abdicate.

@@edryctan672 Das ist genau mein Plan

@@DonMadruga72 Plan for? I'm pretty sad Konigsberg turned into a lame Kaliningrad.

Nothing great to adore. Austrians couldn't fight for shit and wouldn't recognize our rights.

@@kretenskej Yet she adored him

check republic

@@jamie2051 Czech

Ah, so your great grandmother lived in Czech kingdom where Franz Josef was Czech king. Even he was never been crowned...

Becouse they are great people

Because it's so wholesome

It royal and epic

Because they are talking less as leaders but rather as friends

As an german thank you

@@doncalicula7938 why dat Austrian prince had to go to serbia 😞😞😞

@@rickyyacine4818 When I remember right it was because Bosnia should be anext to Austria-Hungary. And he was not going to Serbia, Franz Ferdinand was visiting Bosnia. Only his killer was an member of the Black Hand and this organisation is from Serbia.

He exercised a lot. Riding, hunting, gymnastics. At his desk, he didn't have a chair, but a saddle, so he wouldn't get too comfortable.

@@Timrath While in exile in the Netherlands after his abdication, Wilhelm also chopped wood for exercise, cutting down thousands of trees at Huis Doorn.

Apparently he didn't eat much either

@@CHoskins1861 He planted hundreds of trees too

Because he ate mostly foot that is easy for stomach. Stay away from too sweet, too salty, too spicy food, fresh bread and other fresh food from flour, raw vegetable, raw fruit, alcohol and soft drinks with bubbles and you will be slim too.

You’re so lucky 😊

Been a long time eh

Especially if you remember that these two began WWI, very "heartwarming".

@@ArmanLFWilhelm II did not startet WW1.

Blud you learned history from a backyeard 💀​@@ArmanLF

@@ArmanLF it was Serbia who caused it. Blame them

I think Netflix have tried to replicate this with "The Empress" as well but having seen both I can certainly say that the originals are worth a watch too

the guy at 2:02 actually plays a police officer heavily featured in the Sissi films

Actually not Austria (which at that time were only different parts of Cisleithania).

Those were the days of empire. Europe had many of them. British, Russian, Ottoman, Hapsburg and German Empires

Hey Boney didn't you beat them at Austerlitz?

Austria started the 1914 War. Germany has been unjustly blamed since 1918 and is owed an apology.

Yes...in Union with Hungary, she was from 1867 and long before that. Very interesting visiting that Palace and Vienna itself where you can still feel the imperial presence in the city and at the Hofburg and Schoenbrunn shown in the opening sequence...

It's well known that the British Royal Family,is German,or,after so many years,was German untill Elisabeth,now it's Greek. I assume if Greece wasn't a poor Balkan state,the name of the House would had changed,as with the Hannoverian king George I...

The Austrians used to have a great Empire similar to the Koreans, now the Austrians and Koreans have been brought down to a Rump State. The Austrians considered themselves Germans for a long time and were overshadowed by their German Brothers, The Koreans once considered Chinese were always overshadowed by the Chinese, and now the Koreans don't consider themselves Chinese and the Austrians don't consider themselves Germans. Its more of a like, "We are in the same situation as the Austrians, the were so cool.". On another Note, Austria will likely loose independence in the Next Global Conflict, World War 3 if you will, the Austrians will see this conflict as a need to loose Neutrality, and Will give up independence and Submit to their German heritage they threw away and took for granted. Okay, the last part not so much, however the rest is true.

@The Nova renaissance maybe not empire perse, but they were united as one Korea back then.

Because Koreans have a big idea for themselves...

@@MrMorgan316 recent DNA analysis showed that only western Austrians are Germanic people. Eastern and south Austrians are Slavs. Original Austria was a Slavic country and later Slavs were Germanised - took German language.

@@tongobong1 I think that dividing people bytheir ethnicity is stupid, because the important thing is who you consider yourself, if you were born in let's say Russia but want to be French and think that you are French you can become french

Thats cause such anime despite their ridicules character designs and plotlines take a lot of inspirations from Europe Imperial past, Japanese Imperial past was pretty much similar, a lot of over the top splendour. We are just too used to see black and white images of it, but once you add colour to it, its all suddenly far more real.

Pompous a$$holes dressed like clowns and leading the world toward a precipice.

Indeed! They took a lot of attention to details here. When this movie was filmed in the 50s, there were still people around who remembered the old imperial palace protocol in Vienna first hand and I assume that these people were consulted.

you work for the king, you have to be the best

@Christopher Fisher as a Dutchman, I can confirm this.

😎

I actually googled "war of belgian aggression"...

I wish the Central Powers won

@@unknown-p3i I am very happy they lost. But sad Germany did not return to Westphalia Treaty situation in 1918. Some of my famuly members would have lived a longer life.

Emperors*

Indeed.

More like: When Europe colonized the world. What are you insinuating when you say that?

@@gandalfthegrey2592 when the world was Europe

@@sharkronical Yes, and then they left behind a mess.

Europe was NOT Europe, it was as it should be again, a great collection of Empires and Kingdoms. Europe may be a continent - it is not a nation.

No, it was widely known. It really wasn't something that could be hidden, especially since he was fond of travelling and appearing in public. And it was even written about during his life time.

The part about the British pretending not to notice is completely wrong. Wilhelm had a terrible personality and when he visited England everybody delighted in trolling him by making pointed glances at his short arm, offering their left hands to shake (which would have forced Willy to reciprocate with his crippled left, which he couldn't). By the end of his visit, Wilhelm was so humiliated and embarrassed that he really went off back home about toppling the British Empire. No, the troll dissing didn't cause the War, but Wilhelm was so unstable mentally that he just couldn't properly handle the power he'd been handed.

@@farmalmta When he paid state visits to England, they went out of their way to please Wilhelm in the name of good relations between the two countries (even though they weren't allied). Wilhelm would be so pleased, when he returned to Germany his entourage would complain the Kaiser had become an Anglophile (again, since it wouldn't last).

Kind of what also happened during Queen Victoria's state visit to Versailles in 1855. Napoleon III's state dinner for her and Prince Albert was so large it was held in the auditorium of an OPERA HOUSE!

@@thunderbird1921 you just freaked me out. so help me i have only heard of one reference to victoria leaving UK territory - she was in the south of france for a little while after albert had passed away. I was always under the impression as Queen She never left British territory.

@@STScott-qo4pw Not true. She actually made at least four trips to France as monarch IIRC. Diplomacy with the French (and improving relations with them) was actually one of Victoria's biggest projects as Queen, she felt that the feud had to end if the British Empire was ever going to reach its full potential (not to mention the fact that both Austria and Russia were also becoming increasingly hostile). Her decision to swap state visits with Napoleon III after he became Emperor in the 1850s nearly caused uproar in Britain, but in the end it proved a very wise move (she also apparently joked that her grandfather George III would be FURIOUS with her, meeting with a Bonaparte). The Anglo-French alliance is in no small part due to Victoria and her determined efforts (along with some wise heads in both governments).

@@thunderbird1921 VRI made FOUR trips to France...?! Holy crud, I thought I knew Her reign very well. I gather I DON'T... I have to tell you your phrasing "the feud had to end" was superb - after the Wars of Marlborough that's all it really was, sniping and sneering, and in retrospect the rapproachment between the two countries in two world wars and later the Suez and the cold war has been more of a help to the world than harm.

@@thunderbird1921 Edit: I am still trying to wrap my brain around the benefits and long-term implications of that burying the axe. There was the cold relationship each commissioner had with the other in the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) yet they stumbled along well enough.

There are two kaisers but I assume you are pointing to Kaiser willy?

@@generalgrievous9987 That's right.

Yes and the one who played Franz Josef is the Austrian actor Paul Hörbiger, brother of Attila Hörbiger.

Looks amazing, but half those people probably left the table hungry. Royal protocol was that no one started eating before the sovereign (in this case Franz Joseph), and everyone had to stop eating once the sovereign stopped. Plus, he was the first one served. Franz Joseph was known for being a fast eater. Even state banquets rarely lasted longer than 20 minutes. If you were at the end of the table (last one served) you probably had one, maybe two, bites before your plate was whisked away. The other aspect of royal meals at that time was food would often arrive cold, as it was such a long way from the kitchen to the grand dining rooms.

Not shit Sherlock

It's a movie...

Damn I thought it was actual footage. Like pre wwi

@@nicolaslatorre810 that wasnt my message. I meant that its just so soon after he died, not decades after. Idk i just found that interesting

Originally it was the Three Emperor's League (Driekaiserbund) devised by Bismark and included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia.

Then it became a Triple Alliance, with Germany, Austria and Italy. But, as we know, everything went downhill soon.

Good ear!

@@VeracityLH Just able to recognize the music, danke

vielen dank !

My understanding is that William II's mother was prevented from having any role in his upbringing by the ruling Prussian officers, not because she was ashamed of him.

Agent 3017 That is a fairy tale. Actually the injured arm was the fault of a British doctor Victoria had insisted on. She felt British doctors to be better than German ones. I don't think Wilhelm had to fight for his parents love, furthermore, he was the favourit grandson of queen Victoria. Anyhow, Wilhelm always spoke with the greatest affection of his parents and grandparents.

@@anna-elisabethbender3123 I’m aware Wilhelm was Queen Victoria’s favourite grandchild he was fond of her and you are right about the facts, I didn’t have the time to get into the details of the circumstances of his birth. As for his parents especially his mother she couldn’t get past his left arm that’s what made it hard for her to get close to him. He held her responsible for his father’s death when he was dying of cancer and she called upon a British Doctor to help him get better. Tell me if I’m wrong.

@@Agent-cz9rj No, you are not wrong. But still the fact remains that Wilhelm always speaks with love and highest respect about both his parents. The rest was war propaganda.

I can somewhat sympathize with him. He was boisterous, but he was kind to parents, wife and children, and did try to stop WWI as evidenced by the Nicky-Willy Telegrams and the Halt in Belgrade plan. It isn’t exactly the Kaiser’s fault the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister was weak vacillating idiot

These are some of the glorious mustaches to die for!

merci

황제폐하 잼 발라서 드세요..

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Mmm yes Franco-German Unity

Exzellenz

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Here's your shovel, now clean out the stables for the next 40 years.

@@liamfoley9614 Franz Joseph was cited saying "I am here to protect my citizens from politicians". The exact description of an emperors' purpose. From Wilhelm it is known that he was on the side of his "Landeskinder" more than once when "evil" capitalists tried to abuse their power.

Why? Certainly you wouldn’t be among those in the palace but selling corn in Vienna’s slum a lol

@@jivenfields No, that only happens in Hollywood movies. Of course I don't know about your family, mine had telephone in 1901, a car by 1910 and in 1907 my greatgrandmother's sister opened the first electrical appliances store in my home town. On school schedules were foreign languages like English and French, which all in my family spoke. Before WWI, Germany had the highest social standards in the world and the population was the wealthiest.

Not sure I'd want to go the "empires of old" as such but there is a certain appeal to the old school feudalism (pre-black death) where you had a King who was top of the social hierarchy but who was reliant on nobles to maintain power. Those nobles in turn would have been dependent on lesser nobles or local landowners. Those landowners would in turn have been reliant on their tenants and workers to have a productive Freeholding. It is my understanding that after the Black Death an inevitable power vacuum ensued which resulted in society becoming overly top heavy (the great Imperial houses and Kingdoms) and the ruling elite becoming more distant from their people. So the French and Russian revolutions were somewhat justified but it is my belief that an urban elite replaced the old Imperial and Royal elite and continues to rule to this day. This elite I believe to be worse and more evil than those old Imperial and Royal houses as rather than having one person being at the top and holding ultimately responsibility and thus being ultimately accountable for the failings as well as taking ultimate credit for victories our present elite are hidden under the veil of democracy and working for "the people". The people actually meaning their family, friends and a large bloc of easily swayed "mob" so show they have "majority" support and thus the "minority" have no moral right to dispute their rule. In the past it was also more common for rulers and nobles to have their power usurped on the field of battle and this acted as a fatal and final judgement on their failings. These days we just have elections which are controlled by electoral commissions appointed by Parliaments which are controlled by political parties which are controlled by well-connected elites which give the majority of people enough food scraps to ensure their support and thus the intellectual and intelligent minority are forced to not just comply but not even imagine rebelling because the majority will inevitably support the elite who feed them the food scraps dressed as "freedom"" thus making armed rebellion a lost cause before its even begun and thus putting real free-thinking people in a worse predicament than in even the most brutal and repressive of Imperial, Royal and Communist regimes.