Posted on 06/06/2026 11:52:17 PM PDT by Texan4Life
All these "incestuous" Aristocracies trying to Rule The World . . . I say, Let them ALL Perish ! ! !
I learned things from this AI video. Many interesting photos and film...
"The "Windsor" were actually The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha until they decided to change names to conceal their German roots. I don't know how many in the Royal family have been actually British, I do know that Princess Diana was one and perhaps that is the reason why there was no love lost between she and the Windsor, which reportedly she used to call the Huns."
Kaiser Wilhelm even told the Austrians, that going to war with Serbia wasn’t justified.
But the German generals were itching for a fight and Willie gave into them.
Britain and France were jealous of “The New Kid On The Block”. They did not want Germany to unite.
That didn't seem to dawn on them. That's why Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) was such a brilliant plan in WWII. They made it look like a re-run using their slow moving infantry and suckered the Brits and the French to race up to Belgium.....then undercut them with the Panzer divisions grouped together in one powerful armored fist right at the hinge point between France and Belgium and raced for the Channel.....cutting the BEF and the best 1/3rd of the French army off.
The German Generals knew Russia was quickly modernizing, and that if they didn’t make their move in 1914, in a couple of years it might be too late, it was ‘Now or Never’.
The true story— which is piecemeal on this thread as to WWI causes and beyond, can be found through complete texts available online.
More entertaining and factual is an old BBC series, outlining the idiot Russian Foreign minister who replaced a sharp old man— who thought he could do a deal with the Foreign Minister of the Austro-Hungarian Hapsburgs.
This Russian idiot bad actor with a huge ego, Petrovich Izvolsky, faked out the Tsar, and was snookered by Hapsburg FM Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal(Aehirenthal translates to “Valley of Grain”, a name which was “ennobled” from some other name hugely rumored to have been “jewish” Hungarian. Vast wealth from grain trading)- into supporting the Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia/Herzegovina, in... 1908! Faked out to think Russia would get the Dardanelles and Turkish sea lanes— Wrong!! The Serb patriot response led to assassination of Franz Ferdinand, and Russia supported Serbia. Wilhelm I (a really stupid man,arrogant) pushed Austro Hungary to mobilize, Russia treatied to Serbia, started also.
A well done episode(#9) on this subject, long ago on BBC is “The Fall of Eagles” series. Well acted and truth of the intrigue. It was easy apparently for Nicholas the Tsar to be manipulated and this Russian FM was a scoundrel, who played loose with King Edward to machinate a disaster. Nicholas was weak, and run by the Tsarina.
From the series a really well done episode 51 mins long (at 12:17 starts the fake out meeting with the AH Empire’s FM):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nz2Z4Sf4Ls&list=PLc6nRGBJOjtERqVfIpPck0_YdFWwWfgsT&index=9
That had been the aim of French foreign policy for centuries. The French like to point out that Germany invaded France 3 times in 70 years (1871, 1914, 1940). But they neglect to mention that France invaded Germany many many times in the 2 centuries before that. The French repeatedly marched into German lands (the Holy Roman Empire and later the German Confederation) during the Thirty Years' War, the Nine Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession, the Seven Years' War, and the nearly constant French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
The 17th Century: France actively sent troops into Germany during the final, decisive phase of the Thirty Years' War (1635–1648). Later, under King Louis XIV, French armies invaded the German Rhineland during the War of the Reunions (1683–1684) and again laid waste to the Palatinate during the Nine Years' War (1688–1697).
The 18th Century: The 1700s saw continuous French invasions of German states. Key conflicts included the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), the War of the Polish Succession (1733–1734), the War of the Austrian Succession (1743–1744), and the Seven Years' War (1757–1762).
The 19th Century: During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, France repeatedly invaded and occupied the German states. Napoleon Bonaparte's campaigns saw the French invading and completely redrawing the map of Central Europe, resulting in significant territorial annexations and the creation of the French-dominated Confederation of the Rhine (1806–1813)
Historically, many historians track dozens of distinct French invasions or campaigns into the various German kingdoms, principalities, and territories from 1400 to the unification of Germany in 1871.
Yes, that’s what they will never tell you.
Another matter is that Napoleon III declared war on Prussia in 1870, not the other way round.
And you won’t hear from many French sources that in 1913 the national service in the French forces, which was mandatory for all French men, was extended from two to three years. Some say that this was already in preparation of the „big showdown“.
Even before the Thirty Years War, there was the „raid on Austrasia“, a French campaign to capture the sees of Metz, Toul and Verdun, as Germany was busy with the Protestant Princes allying against the Emperor, who was a Catholic.
Then, there had been the French Eastward expansion of the late 1200s and early 1300s, which only came to grief when the Hundred Years War between France and England started in 1337.
Before, there had been the conflict over Lotharingia in the 870s, followed by the attempt of French King Lothar to kidnap Emperor Otto II in 978, etc.
It’s what the great late German-born French historian, Joseph Rovan, never failed to tell his students. He was a great, good, fair-minded man, whom I cannot praise enough.
Not all, but not a few.
Freisler, who spoke fluent Russian, had been a POW in the young Soviet Union from 1917-19. However, it is so far unclear whether he was taught by Wyshinski himself.
i believe the real reason was george was afraid of the socialists if he brought nicky to england. yes in pictures they did look like brothers
Oh, and I forgot to mention that Henry II, King of France, reputedly said that, when he was undertaking the 1552 raid on Metz, Toul and Verdun and simultaneously supporting the dissident Protestant Princes in Germany: „It’s to keep the affairs in Germany as complicated as possible.“
And that was the concert pitch, which set the tone for French foreign policy towards Germany until 1871…
Fritz Fischer was a falsifier of some sources and deliberately misinterpreted those which were true.
His wish was to save his skin after having been a notorious supporter of Nazism at Hamburg University in the mid-Thirties.
He hoped to endear himself to the victorious nations of WW Two, an endeavour in which he succeeded.
Today, he is regarded much more critically than in his lifetime, as he should be: he was, polemically speaking, not a scholar, but a propagandist.
Should mention that rather than it being Tsar trying to puff up, it was Izvolsky who allowed the Tsar to ignore they had no Navy to ever need the Dardanelles to “sail” through.
So, this was the concoction of this Izvolsky, because the reality was that Russia had no Navy post first destruction, and by 1912 at Port Arthur, China, and later at sea— the second Russian Navy was destroyed fully.
Net result was that Izvolsky was shown to be a liar, the FM Aehrenthal destroyed the Hapsburgs and gained something else for himself, and the dominoes fell leading to a ridiculous “cause” for WWI. Wilhelm couldn’t control his stupid self and killed his own cousin (told by Hindenburg & Ludendorf to send in Vladimir Lenin—and they paid for the Bolshevik Revolution in so doing. Germany still lost WWI).
Good grief. You seem to think that in the First World War, Germany was somehow the victim in spite of declaring war and invading her neighbors. As in World War II, Germany was the aggressor, showing a high degree of military competence but failing at strategy and losing both wars. Idiots.
Actually, Wilhelm II tried to stop the war: he asked Vienna, after Belgrade had acceded to the demands of the former, that now there would be no more reason to go to war.
However, in the meantime, the administration in St. Petersburg was already mobilizing, and on the 30th and 31st July there were the first sporadic cavalry raids by Cossacks on German territory.
In tears, the German Kaiser pleaded on the phone with the Czar to stop the mobilization, but he received the reply that he, the Czar, couldn’t stop it anymore and that God should bless Wilhelm.
The rest, as they say, is history…
The only idiot here was Hitler, who stepped into the same lake twice.
With Diana and Kate, the German is being bred out, and the English is being bred back in. George would be the most English Monarch since Elizabeth The First.
Hitler secretly admired Marx.
Yes, Mr. FLT-bird has detailed the run-up to the Great War in detail - and he is correct entirely.
Not even the best man can live in peace, if his evil neighbor doesn’t like him.
Hitler understood that he needed to keep the Capitalist system in place to build the war machine.
Once the war was one, and it was no longer needed, the business class would go the way of the Jews, as they were not compatible with the long-term vision of the “Thousand Year Reich”.
Uggh, s/b “Once the war was won”
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