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England started WWI because Wilhelm II’s English Mother Tortured Him

His mother was Princess Victoria, the eldest child of Queen ...
Sooty roast beef
  01/11/26
The royal houses get pretty confusing. Like, the English mon...
Apoplectic Titillating Stag Film
  01/11/26
You had never heard of Kaiser Wilhelm II the last German Emp...
Sooty roast beef
  01/11/26
I probably read about him in HS or something. I wasn't exagg...
Apoplectic Titillating Stag Film
  01/11/26
born with a withered left arm https://www.gettyimages.com...
Peach at-the-ready piazza
  01/11/26
Ah, okay. Makes sense that most pictures of the guy hide tha...
Apoplectic Titillating Stag Film
  01/11/26
https://www.facebook.com/groups/archeologyandcivilizations/p...
Peach at-the-ready piazza
  01/11/26


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Date: January 11th, 2026 2:11 PM
Author: Sooty roast beef

His mother was Princess Victoria, the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Growing up in Victorian England she was raised in a time where image was everything and she was deeply ashamed of Wilhelm II’s physical disabilities and basically tortured him as a child. He developed deep emotional pathologies and held grudges against the English that led to the isolation of the German Empire and eventually World War I. He is a very interesting historical figure, brilliant in some ways, but nevertheless irrevocably broken. And in the shadow of his abusive childhood and insecurities, millions of people died. Some might even say the English started World War II along similar lines, although that’s a bit more removed.

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Date: January 11th, 2026 5:07 PM
Author: Apoplectic Titillating Stag Film

The royal houses get pretty confusing. Like, the English monarch coeval to this dude is from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, which is totally German (or at least these were in the 15th century).

I had to look this guy up. He looks physically normal. What were his disabilities?

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Date: January 11th, 2026 5:12 PM
Author: Sooty roast beef

You had never heard of Kaiser Wilhelm II the last German Emperor before today?

His left hand was paralyzed or something. His mother would have the doctors force him to tie his right hand down to his body and then she'd force him to try and ride a horse using only his paralyzed arm. She would do this for hours and he fell off countless times.

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Date: January 11th, 2026 5:19 PM
Author: Apoplectic Titillating Stag Film

I probably read about him in HS or something. I wasn't exaggerating when I said I really don't know 20th c. history.

To be fair, there have been so many European rulers in the past 600 years that it's hard to remember those outside one's area of interest.

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Date: January 11th, 2026 5:12 PM
Author: Peach at-the-ready piazza

born with a withered left arm

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/kaiser-wilhelm-ii-with-pavlov-skoropadsky-the-hetman-of-the-news-photo/113490980

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Date: January 11th, 2026 5:21 PM
Author: Apoplectic Titillating Stag Film

Ah, okay. Makes sense that most pictures of the guy hide that.

At least he wasn't born a Habsburg...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5820746&forum_id=2).#49581448)



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Date: January 11th, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: Peach at-the-ready piazza

https://www.facebook.com/groups/archeologyandcivilizations/posts/8650141095079338/

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