Same reason we didn’t try Hirohito after WWII.
An interesting “What If”, had we allowed the German Monarchy to continue. Would there have been Hitler?
Simple. The British caused WWI. Austria-Hungary’s cause was absolutely just. France officially recognized that. But the British wanted to destroy German because it was afraid of Germany becoming a superpower with an alliance with Austria-Hungary (both were descendants of the Holy Roman Empire.)
>> There was just one problem: The accused, Wilhelm II of Germany, couldn’t testify. The accused had been dead for 75 years <<
Wait, what? Wilhelm II died in 1941.
The Kaiser died in exile with German troops stretched out across vast swathes of the former Austro Hungarian and Russian Empires along with the occupation of most of France.
Hitler had a wreath sent to the funeral.
He was first cousin to King George V of England. Grandson of Queen Victoria. No one was going to execute him.
War itself is a crime under ordinary law, but, as the USSC ruled about the statehood of West Virginia, Inter armes silent leges (Between armies the laws are silent).
Everybody’s missing the big question: why did the Germans have those pointy things on the tops of their helmets?
It is unfortunate but undeniably it is the nature of humanity.
But he was alive when the ToV was signed. Not dead for 75 years. Article is confusing.
I would add at last 8 months of the war...the death rate was a major topic. The SPD party said ‘no’ around August to another draft, and ordered peace talks. At this point, the Kaiser was a non-player.
The Kaiser would exit to the Netherlands under a protective deal, which the Brits, French and US were bitter about.
The war ended on 11 November in a unclear way, with German soldiers walking home, with their weapons....creating the path for civil conflict.
And if Annie Oakley had been a worse shot, she could have prevented WWI.
Because he didn’t start it anymore then George IV did!
And if Annie Oakley had been a worse shot, she could have prevented WWI.
Damn Woodrow Wilson for his Anglophilia and the true beginning of the “special relationship.” Germany under the Kaiser was far superior to both the Nazis and Weimar.
The “leaders” of WW1 were all practically chums and family members. They are above the law and if a few million have to die for their egos so be it. The USA should have stayed out of it.
Not sure exactly why Germany gets all the blame - when all of Europe set up alliances and armed themselves, such that WWI was basically inevitable.
The Austro-Hungarians lit the fuse.
One could say that the overall cause of WWi was western European colonialism as well as the existence of the Austro-Hungairan and Russian empires togther with the military or defensive alliances the European powers and states made between themselves. It was evident no war in Europe at the time was going to be a mere one-on-one contest between two countries, and wars events were going to drag nearly everyone into it.
Trade and the use of resources had been built up prior to WWI not by “free trade” but by imperial controls of emperial held lands and colonies and restrictions on access and trade that empires and states imposed for what they thought was their own protection and betterment. Japan would see the same thing tying up resouces and trade all around Asia, and mostly not by Asian powers.
All Quiet on the Western Front
No reasonable prosecuting attorney could be found?