Things were better under the Kaiser.

You must admit, he ruled the Empire single-handedly.

Ach, back then, we had order.....

Has anyone seen my parrot?

И Россия было более лучшим также под мной!

I loved Kay Kyser's music!

Not as good as they were under the Holy Roman Emperor.

You mean kaiser permanente?

Hehe, R1. I get it.

Correct your link, R4.

I'd rather have a ciabatta.

Robert Beachy's new book "Gay Berlin" (which is terrific) spends a chapter talking about gay scandals during Kaiser Wilhelm II's reign during the 1910's. The Kaiser had several close friends who were widely known homosexualists.

You couldn't convict someone for homosexual acts unless you had physical evidence(!) or testimony. One guy, Eulenberg, was convicted for perjury - claiming in sworn testimony that he'd never had gay tendencies, then getting depositions in another trial from guys who claimed to sleep with him.

Volume I (the current one) covers 1860-1933. Vol. II will cover gay life under the Nazis, which should be depressing/fascinating.

I miss German monarchy. William would've most likely married a German princess who was his 5th cousin (from Victoria) instead of Kate.

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I was only under him once.

PThey Kaiser was a nut job.

Da ... Николай II, Николай Александрович Романов,

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I finally get to see the Viennese Teardrop again!

I love his rolls.

I miss the Kaiser.

The one person who could have told us the answer has just died.

My German grandmother taught us a song in German that she had to sing in school (circa 1905) and would love to hear us sing it. My father was horrified.

Translation:

The Kaiser lives in Berlin.

He is a wonderful man,

And if he didn't live so far away

I would go visit him, right now!

No, it doesn't lose much in translation.

I love you, R22. I think I remember your posting that before, but still love it!

At least he wasn't exterminating Jews. He didn't love them, but it wasn't a government policy to exterminate them either.

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Here is my late father on Jan 1, 1918. The newspapers' headlines report on the Kaiser's war. I had thought one of the headline read "Germans Advance on Verdun", but I can't find that headline in the pic now.

Papa would be 100 in October this year!

Zee older folks always said Hitler vas much better zan zee Kaiser. At first anyvay, zen not so much.

Hmmm...spring in Konigsberg. Never again... The Kaiser was fine but those bitches who ruled Austria-Hungary were way more interesting: cheating, murder/suicide. Quel scandal.

Bring back ze Kaiser!!!

Were there any caberesh under the Kaier?

I was born as オリビア de Havilland when Emperor Taishō was still rulling the Japanese lands and I can tell you that unlike the Kaiser he was the real deal! I'm sure my fellow citizen Miyoshi Umeki can confirm that!

Truth here. My cousin was a good friend of Olivia and Joan's family, especially their aunt (yes, she was old when I knew her and has been dead a decade).

She was proud of her nieces but though Joan was an out-of-control mess and Olivia was a dear who covered up her ambition with better manners. Olivia drove Joan nuts all her life, and she thought Olivia really was fed up with Joan's antics. Joan got into some kind of trouble and Olivia helped get her out of it, and she felt she never got her due from her younger sister over it. I think that's why Joan as a teenage went back to live with her father, then in Japan. Some kind of naughtiness. This even though the mother, Lilian, had divorced him for his sex with other women and being obsessed with some game he took up (Honest.), and Joan had been moved to the USA because of her lousy health.

Anyway, the split between the two went back to very early life, and nothing was going to make it better.

This relative was on the mother's side. She used to watch the girls, even, although it's not like they were extremely young at the time. How she got to the USA I don't know, and my cousin was German to boot, but well connected.

Well, they were.

[quote]Bring back ze Kaiser!!!

You mean der Kaiser, Frenchy.

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R26, Papa is so cute! What a cute sailor suit! And the sun hat is to die for!

This was before the inflation and Liza Minnelli in Cabaret. Tonight on TCM!

R10 LOL.

Kaiser should never have merged into American Motors. The Jeep has never been as good since.

Tagg Romney at R39

True. They were.

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R34 No you meant Der Kaiser, American!

"I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman."

Speaking of the Kaiser.

Think how amazing things would be under his gr. Gr. Grandson, Arthur Douro.

R47, since this is the DL, I will hijack this thread long enough to note that Arthur Wellesley is addressed as the Marquess of Douro and his wife, Jemma, as Marchioness. The Earl of Mornington title is a lesser one than that of Marquess and is, in fact, the title that their son is addressed by. Jemma does not have titles in her own right, and even if she did, Marquess is a male title.

Jesus, he is banging hot

Actually Germany had recovered from the anglo/american destructia of WWl and was rising again economically without a private central bank(which irked the anglo/american usury banking criminals no end!) and thus had to be destroyed again by the same anglo/american usury banking criminals and their army. Sadly, that was the end of Germany which ever since has not been a natia but rather an occupied territory under the control of the global usury baking criminals and policed by the American army (aka NATO)

Rebuilding the Kaiser's palace thread.

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KaiserRein

They were.