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Part Two: Kaiser Wilhelm: The Saddest Warlord In History

Behind the Bastards

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The Hand Is Back

I think the best epitaph for this man was written by journalist Charles Lowe, a foreign correspondent for the Times. He called Wilhelm, quote, the chief creator of the war spirit, which he founded impossible to exercise or resist. And I hate that there's usually an end to feel kind of bad for them because you're like, oh, well, why would you not be horrible? WhyWould you not be good? Monarchs, like monarchs themselves, like, I absolutely have sympathy for a guy like Phil Helm because like, fuck man, there was no good ending to the story. But like the people who want to go back to having a monarchy, I can't figure out

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