Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTIL that on hearing about Kristallnacht, Kaiser Willhelm II said from his exile "For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German".en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1292arrow-down18
arrow-up1284arrow-down1external-linkTIL that on hearing about Kristallnacht, Kaiser Willhelm II said from his exile "For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German".en.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squareSnowclone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down1·1 month agoThat’s weird because he was equally as anti-semetic and pro-nazi as the rest of the aristocracy
minus-squareRolando@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·1 month agoYeah if you read the rest of that section, Wilhelm was hoping the Nazis would restore one of his family as Kaiser, but Hitler blamed him for losing WW1.
That’s weird because he was equally as anti-semetic and pro-nazi as the rest of the aristocracy
Yeah if you read the rest of that section, Wilhelm was hoping the Nazis would restore one of his family as Kaiser, but Hitler blamed him for losing WW1.