• Snowclone@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That’s weird because he was equally as anti-semetic and pro-nazi as the rest of the aristocracy

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      3 months ago

      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.

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          3 months ago

          Also his decision to pay the war debt (which, yes, was wildly insane to even charge them with) by printing so much money it lost all value outside of fule for bakers, and insulation for homes really harmed Germany.

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    3 months ago

    This may not be true. From the German Wikipedia article (translation by Google):

    However, he did not publicly criticise the anti-Semitic acts of violence. Foreign newspapers reported that Wilhelm had declared that he was “ashamed to be a German for the first time in his life”. The historian Stephan Malinowski describes the interview in which this statement is said to have been made as a fake and refers to several denials by the ex-emperor.

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    3 months ago

    Bro do you ever learn anything interesting besides war and war crime related wiki pages?

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        3 months ago

        Really wish we’d start recording the other parts of our history that result in war more. Maybe we wouldn’t have to do so much war that way

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      3 months ago

      I wanted to see what you’re talking about, so I looked through their profile. Of their ten most recent posts to this sub, only this one was about war.

      So what are you going on about?

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        3 months ago

        They post like 10 posts an hour you gotta go back farther than that they average a post an hour since they started their account

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          3 months ago

          I would say that’s irrelevant because they obviously post other things. 90% of checked posts were not related to war. So that answers your question in the affirmative.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Back when the History Channel actually showed documentaries, they were all about war. We called it The War Channel. That’s because most of human history is war.