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Part Two: Kaiser Wilhelm: The Saddest Warlord In History

Behind the Bastards

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Hinspeter's Rear Strike

In 1889, Kaiser Wilhelm sided with the striking workers against their employers. On his first outing, he brought Valdurci and Eulenberg with him. The latter was a sane person who didn't support wars of aggression with the rest of the world. But Valdurci convinced the Kaiser that Bismarck had been conned into giving control of the Reich's monetary policy to a bunch of Jews.

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