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To: nickcarraway

A deformed and withered left arm and a troubling childhood that left the Kaiser with serious mental health problems is more the reason for WW1 than the actions of Gavrilo Princip.


26 posted on 03/06/2014 4:42:18 PM PST by Bobalu (Happiness is a fast ISR)
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To: Bobalu

That is very likely.
A lot of European tension was the result of German armament driving an arms race and a desperate hunt for allies.
And that, particularly the Naval part, was the Kaisers doing.


29 posted on 03/06/2014 4:56:21 PM PST by buwaya
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To: Bobalu

Like a crab deprived of one claw, the Kaiser saw his right arm grow tremendously strong & longer than it might have otherwise been. He easily brought down flying game by raising & firing his gun with one hand; he took sadistic delight in dealing bone crunching handshakes with his finger rings turned inward for greater painful effect.

And yet Queen Wilhelmina of Holland was such a close friend that the Kaiser spared the Netherlands from invasion in 1914-18; it was she who gave him a mansion in Doorn following his exile from Germany. Strange. Maybe royal blood runs thicker than water, certainly more so than that of the millions who perished in that horrible war.


30 posted on 03/06/2014 5:11:19 PM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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