After 1890 important changes took place within the German Empire both in domestic and foreign policy. The period was marked ...

Kaiser Wilhelm II was the last Emperor of Germany. His delicate ego, intense jealousies, and unpredictable temper led straight to the calamitous events of WWI and the fall of the House of Hohenzollern ...

Two old men who played together occasionally as lads and have both retired to chop wood for amusement are Wilhelm II, 67, and Poultney Bigelow, 71, eccentric U. S. journalist-lecturer. While the ...

The glowing eyes of the robotic head of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. Owen Cegielski remembers how history was taught more than 25 years ago when he was in high school. “I was accustomed to just ...

This film shot by Oskar Messter shows a visit by Wilhelm II the AG Vulcan in Szczecin, one of the then leading shipyards in Germany. On display are the Emperor and some military and civil dignitaries, ...

Preaching every Sunday, either from a pulpit or, if none offers, then from his own hearthrug, has always been a minor passion with Wilhelm II of Germany. Believing as he still does that he is God’s ...

In 2018, The Neues Palais—the last palace built by Frederick the Great in Potsdam, Germany—hosted a small exhibition called “Kaiserdämmerung” (“The Twilight of the Emperor”), to mark the centenary of ...