The Kaiser's Responsibility for the First World War |
William II, Emperor of Deutschland The TV history channel has
repeatedly shown lengthy movies depicting the horrors of World War I. That war
was the direct cause of World War II and the Nazi nightmare. It can now be shown
that the First World War was caused by William II alone and only because that
belligerent fool was allowed the power to drive millions to their deaths. The
outcome of the First World War, which was largely fought for nothing, led to
this slaughter. Country
Dead and Injured (in
millions) France
1.4
4.2 Deutschland
1.8
3.2 Austria-Hungary
1.4
3.6 Russia
1.8
3.0 British Empire
.96
2.0 Italy
.8
1.0 Turkey
.8
1.8 Serbia .13 .135 In addition to these nearly eight
million dead, many wounded soldiers died later of their wounds. These casualties
led to creating 3 million widows and six million children who lost their
fathers. In addition, several epidemics broke out, killing millions more. All this can be attributed to
William II. He was belligerent and totally incapable of controlling his temper.
He also did not understand that belligerent speeches and media interviews were
taken as threats by other nations.
For example, in 1911, William II interfered in the French dealings with Morocco,
a French colony seekng independence from France. This was not the business of
Germany, yet it nearly led to war when William seemed to side with Morocco
against France. William was also jealous that Britain had a large navy and
announced that Germany would build a navy to rival England. This looked like a
serious threat to the English. On a visit to England, whose language William
spoke fluently because of his English mother, he told a newspaper reporter that
most Germans did not like the English, who were his hosts.
Numerous other aggressive statements frightened most of Europe. Finally,
Wiliam caused the world war
when he promised the Austrian emperor, Franz-Joseph, that if Austria
attacked Serbia, Deutschland would back Austria with a large military force. The
occasion for this promise was that the Austrian Prince Ferdinand and his wife
were visiting Sarajevo in Bosnia when a Serb, Gavrilo Princip, shot and killed
both visitors. This double assassination led the Austrian government to demand
the death penalty for the killer. However, William pressured the Austrians to
invade Serbia and “teach the Serbs a lesson.” The Austrians reluctantly
followed that advice and invaded Serbia. This led the Russians to declare war on
Austria, as Russia sought to defend a small Slavic country. Now, Russia had a
treaty with France, who declared war on Deutschland in support of Russia. This
led the British and their entire British empire, including Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, and India, to support France, with whom
the British had a mutual defense treaty. Turkye, at that time known as
the Ottoman Empire, sided with Germany. Italy sided
with the allies, leading to the horrible slaughter of a world war. Barbara Tuchman, in her book The Guns of August, showed that Deutschland had lost the war within
one month, because the Germans did not have the resources
to fight a two front war against Russia and the western allies. She also
wrote that the German government should have understood that an attack on
England would bring the United States into the war against Deutschland. However,
William II understood nothing but his own belligerence, so that on August 1,
1914, all these Nations began fighting one another. The war was heinous, as most
of the soldiers lived in trenches full of rats. These trenches were dug into the
soil of France and Russia. They were filthy and had no water facilities, so that
soldiers relieved themselves in these trenches. Both sides had generals who
demanded the soldiers rush out of their trenches and assault
the trench of the enemy a few yards away, leading to death and wounds.
Any soldiers who would not follow the command to assault the other side was shot
to death by his own countrymen to teach the cowards to fight for their country. The end of this unnecessary
slaughter was the resignation of William II, who moved to the Netherlands in
1919 and died thee in 1940. Then Hitler and the National
Socialists, or Nazis (Nazionalsozialisten), sought revenge for losing the
First World War while blaming the Jews for their loss. Thus Wilhelm became the
originator of two world wars and the immense suffering of millions, of whom 50
million died in Wold War Two. Even the most recent invasion of the Nazi Ukraine
by Russia was a belated consequence of William II influence. Shalom
u'vracha. Dr. Gerhard Falk is the author of numerous publications, including The American Jewish Community in the 20th and 21st Century (2021). |