TIL that on hearing about Kristallnacht, Kaiser Willhelm II said from his exile "For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German".
TIL that on hearing about Kristallnacht, Kaiser Willhelm II said from his exile "For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German".
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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.
Well, it's true, Kaiser Wilhelm did lose WW1 for Germany by starting it.
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.
He wasn't the leader of the Weimarer Republik
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