It existed only in the form of the personal oath of allegiance that German officers and soldiers pledged to their king-emperor, "His Majesty the German Kaiser,
Wilhelm II, my Supreme War Lord." (8) As well, Kaiser
Wilhelm II jealously guarded his active command role, or "Kommandogewalt," at least up to 1914.
But bearing in mind Hemingway's reflexive allusiveness, consider for a moment the famously hubristic words of Kaiser
Wilhelm II, uttered in August 1914 as he watched his German troops heading off to the Great War: "You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees" (qtd.
Before WWI, Kaiser
Wilhelm II stayed there when he signed a charter for a joint excavation of Blbek with the Ottoman Empire, and later his troops took up residence in the hotel, just as the British forces would do 20 years later during WWII.
1859: Kaiser
Wilhelm II, third German emperor and grandson of Queen Victoria, was born.
The Crown would then have passed to her son, Kaiser
Wilhelm II, aka "Kaiser Bill".
The session was entitled Current Bibliographical Projects and included three papers: "The Music Collection of King Friedrich
Wilhelm II (17441797): Towards a Cataloguing History", by Loukia Drosopoulou (Cardiff University); "La numerisation du Guide musical a la Bibliotheque royale de Belgique: entre traitement de masses et travail a la page", by Frederic Lemmers (Bibliotheque royale de Belgique, Brussels); and "British Music Publishers Revisited", by Donald W.
Because the 'official mind' developed over the years the author follows a chronological approach and carefully picks his way through the succession of crises with which officials had to cope whether it be the Balkans, difficulties in staying close to Austria-Hungary, coping with the unstable
Wilhelm II, not to mention Russian expansionism whether in the Middle East or in the Balkans.
Time and again we cross Namibia's borders: the story of the ever popular Biltong brings us to South Africa, the AK-47 rifle used in the Namibian independence struggle points us to the former Soviet Union and a memorial stone in Aus takes us back to the era of the last German emperor, Kaiser
Wilhelm II. The 25 news flashes from the past in this anthology makes ideal travel reading for guests from abroad.
By the time the German emperor
Wilhelm II ascended the throne in the summer of 1888, it was clear that Germany had arrived late to the Great Game of European Imperialism.
That strategy was an outgrowth of Kaiser
Wilhelm II's reckless and amateurish meddling in Oriental affairs.
Award-winning author Carter, however, brings the era to life with her description of the three first cousins--King George V of Britain, Kaiser
Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.