How Queen Victoria’s Disabled Grandson Led Europe Into WW1 | The Crippled Kaiser
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- At the end of the 19th century, much of Europe's royalty was one big dysfunctional family. Discover how this slowly dissolving family partially led to the conflict that would consume and reshape Europe.
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Mr. Carson is the only voice to narrate historical documentaries
This was a brilliant documentary
A normal cousin fight in 1910's
Unneccesary war
Yeah, I often tell people that the Great War was, in some ways, a "family affair." This war costs millions of lives.
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 .
Britain’s monarchy has caused so much misery in this world..all over the globe.
@@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.
God save the king indeed
So agree! 😢
Excellent documentary. Is this "Carson" of Downton Abbey narrating?
I believe so, very distinctive voice.
yes. Narrated by Jim Carter.
This man, along with James Earl Jones......one could just listen to them read the phone book.
Mr. Carlson 🥰
RIP JEJ
Wait...a dead animal tied to his arm didn't work? Shocking!
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'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.
The same royal tragedy with Russian imperator Nikolay II and his family which lead to Russian revolution and tragedy in 1917.
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.
@@charliebrownie4158 Nicky just was moron to take leadership on his hand, because he just destroyed Russia the same way as Kaiser destroyed Germany.
They had it coming
and all related
You can thanks the British
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.
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.
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
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. 😂
Timeline has some hitters
The family that sleeps together, fights together
great documentaries but please compress the speech, it hurts my ears when commercials begin with same volume I need for this
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.
Acting like Great Britain, French, Serbian, and Russian leaders did nothing “to lead Europe” into this war based on this title is rediculous.
It’s from the BBC, so no doubt it’s going to have an Anti-Kaiser, Anti-German bend. Wilhelm despite the many myths that surrounded him genuinely did to try push for peace with both Britain, France, and Russia.
It’s just Edward VII hated him because Wilhelm was Queen Vicky’s favorite grandchild and the son she wished she had. She would always make Edward leave the room whenever her and Wily talked politics.
He genuinely tried to patch things up with France by going on tour of the country trying to change perceptions but the boo’ed him and threw trash at him and his mother.
Nicholas was Wihlelm’s favorite cousin and for a while things were good between then. Haven’t read why they had a falling out but I know Wilhelm tried.
An excellent documentary. Too many commercials. I did not know of his birth defect and the impact it had on his life.
I’ve been to his castle in Germany. That sucker is huge.
me too
The narrator sounds like Carson from Downton abbey
Jim Carter is Carson from Downton Abbey who is also narrator of this documentary.
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.
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.
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
22:15 She looks so uncomfortable and distant, and he just looks sad and lonely for a mother's love.
Lucy Worsley has a decent doco called Cousins at War, worth watching.
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.
Poor kid. No wonder he "started" World War I. He was just angry at the world.
Is there more about the last Emperor of Germany any documentary about his time in exile in his final days?
They were all related.
Kaiser Wilhelm, Tsar Nicholas and whoever the king is Bligjty was.
All cousins.
I think it’s also worth noting that the current King of Spain is a descendant of Kaiser Wilhelm II through his mother Queen Sofia
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.
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
Serbia, Austria, France and Russia had huge parts to play in starting the War. Germany also to blame, but no more than those other protagonists.
Very interesting.
I had no idea Wilhelm's life was this screwed up. Jesus.
Victorian Era 1837-1901.
Edwardian Era 1901-1910.
And of course the mother would be blamed back then for the baby not being physically perfect.
They still get blamed for it
Sounds like a movie...are there movies that take from this?
Austrians breathing a sigh of relief after Germany gets the blame.
She was rather beastly, wasn’t she? Reminds me of my mother.
what a wickid web we weave
A horrific horror story? Bit redundant don't you think?
What was Wilhelm's reaction to Germany and WW2?
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...
About time we grew up and got rid of the Von Windsors and became a Republic .
Agree.
Interesting bit about the name change.
@@meredithheath5272 Good to hear , Have you joined the Republic campaign?
You are in freemasonry too ?
@@NapoleonAquila No i want to be able to vote for a HoS not a self imposed one
Rabbit skins, electrical impulses. Why didn't they just take it off😮😮😮
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.
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.)
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 🤣
The reason why is because they where bound by usury so they had to
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
What is the Earl's son called then hmmm
Wilhelm sounds a lot like the current prince living aboard …the entitled , bitterness feelings
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.
What an awful title! Insulting! And of course, ww1 was due to the only actions of a disabled person
Signed one of the crippled people...
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.
@@johnthinkpadnot necessarily, Germany and Austria were very close. It was more than just a treaty like what tied France and Russia.
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.
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).
In fact he didn’t
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.
I feel so bad for Queen Vicky… it must have broken her heart to see how evil her son became.
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.
Wow eh? That was very educational. And it all happened because of a breech birth.
When a cousin don't like another cousin so he has to get his country folk to fight for him. Typical moves from a cowardly whimp
The fake queen
Ugh, those love letters to his mother. Criiiiiiiiiiinge.
Yeah, Yikes 😬
🦝
yeah, like right 🙄
never gonna believe this $#!T
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what?
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.
don’t you mean ww1?
@@jilliansmaniotto2326 whoops typo .
Lizard people