Germany's last emperor, a gilded porcelain vase and a general who had a heart attack in a pink tutu: The Eulenburg Affair ...
Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II decided to “renounce the throne,” under increasing pressure from most of Germany’s political parties. Germany’s troops were in retreat across Europe. Prince Maximilian, the ...
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Kaiser Wilhelm Deserved Much Worse
Kaiser Wilhelm II was born into one of the largest royal houses in all of Europe. But this prince's jealousy for his English cousins, his insecurity over his hideous deformity, and his famously ...
While Joseph Epstein draws attention to the comically similar temperaments and personality quirks of two prominent world leaders (“The Curious Parallels Between Trump and Kaiser Wilhelm II,” op-ed, ...
Wilhelm was the last German emperor (Kaiser) and king of Prussia. As a child he was subjected to cruel physical conditioning to "correct" physical disabilities. This, combined with the standard ...
The other day, reading along in Ernst Pawel’s “The Labyrinth of Exile: A Life of Theodor Herzl,” I had a Plutarchian moment. I refer of course to Plutarch (45-120), the Greek who wrote a series of ...
Max Hastings is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. His histories include "Inferno: The World At War, 1939–1945," "Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy 1945–1975" and "Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962." An admiral ...
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