The Bizarre Life Of Victoria's Disabled Grandson | Crippled Kaiser | Real Royalty
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- Queen Victoria’s eldest child, Vicky, married the German Crown Prince in 1858. One year after her wedding Vicky endured a difficult birth that almost ended her life and left her baby, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II, with a permanently paralysed arm. Soon Vicky presided over a series of bizarre and often cruel attempts to cure Wilhelm of his disability. These included regular animal baths in which the body of a freshly slaughtered hare was wrapped around Wilhelm’s arm in the belief that its blood would bring life to his limb. These procedures created a highly dysfunctional relationship between Vicky and Wilhelm, he developed a growing hatred for his mother’s country while at the same time expressing his desire for ‘forbidden love’ with her.
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I find the letters from son to mom so sad. 😢 He just wants attention from his mom. He does not want to sleep with her. He just wants a mothers love. He just wants a mothers loving touch. A hug and kiss of acceptance. This is what every child wants from their mom. I hugged my boys and told them I loved them all the time. They are grown men now and know how much I care for them. 💜. I cried for this poor young man. So sad to be raised this way. 😱
My parents never touched me. I'm fine. FINE.
@@Elleoaqua my mother hated kisses and hugs, my dad was more loving to a point and I would have loved that parental love. Your parents should give you loving attention. I'm glad you are fine but I honestly can say it had an effect on me and my mother and I had no loving relationship. I really did not like her and never felt save or that I could go to her with any problems. Her punishments were abusive and not done in love or because she cared. You learn distrust if that is seen as good. In orphanages where babies do not get touched or hugged will start rocking, they can actually develope developmental problems. It's a fact, look it up.💟
@@Elleoaqua What does your response even mean? You have been married to the same person of your youth and have good relationships with all your own children? Or does it mean you were never touched by parents but you felt the touch of your heavenly father? Or does it mean you had lots of s ex ual relationships or you choose not to touch now? Personally I think we all have hang ups from our childhood that we have to go through. Often people who lack touch from their parents seek more touch from others or choose to reject it as well. I think we need to seek healing from what our parents have done and forgive them in the same way we need to be forgiven for our own mistakes and our children need mercy and love.
This video has very unfair bias. Hands in dreams represent your relationships and how you are able to connect with the world. To kiss a hand is not s ex ual and the writing style of the time was the normal writing style of the time. To successfully interpret the focus of hands in the dream, always consider the action that the hands are taking and the context of seeing hands. Hands can also suggest authority, power, action, protection, and justice.
I agree. He’s wanting his mother’s love and acceptance.
Whoever came up with the theory that he is having sexual feelings towards his mother, is a total pervert. What is wrong with people???
freudian psychanalysis... Oedipe...
I agree with you . They use perverted content to SELL . Historians sensationalize because they don't really earn much.
Totally agree! They’re sick. Kissing her hands is not sexual. He desires greatly to be excepted by his mother.
Some guy from the Freud Museum! Does that tell you enough?? He's of the same strange mindset that wants to see incest when it isn't actually there. What does not take a looney shrink to deduce is that this guy had a ***** for a mother and he was desperately pleading with her for her love.
@caro2233 Freud was all screwed up anyways. No smarter than anyone.
What is wrong with these men! It’s a child ignored by his mother, craving her love & acceptance. Left hand, his disability, the touch of his mommy- it’s a desperate child wanting his momma’s love- not sexual! OMG
OMG
Because the British are emotionally stunted. So any sort of affection is foreign to them. Their idiots, my American ass fight with my British family about the same thing...
It's pretty horrifying, really. The desperation of the rejected child, while he's still a child, making one last plea to his mother for acceptance she simply isn't ever going to give.
Someone - _anyone_ - just needed to give the poor lad a hug. 😢
Mon un TV @@odinfromcentr2
I love that this documentary boldly claims that a British historian just now "discovered" private letters in a palace in Germany. Hate to break it to him, but those letters are public knowledge for a long time already.
Also, that "incestuous relationship" bit is spun maliciously out of context. He was a boy who yearned for motherly love from his mother and wrote in a flowery way very typical of the time.
The negative to these documentaries is, that they all require spins. At least these don't film at 1.5-2x normal speed! A few do... trying to cover up the lack of drama.
I was so blessed to read some of the Zar & zarina s & childrens letters by seeing the in a museum loan In Baltimore about 20 years ago or the Smithsonian can’t remember which but they were all in English because she was a grand daughter of Q Victoria & wrote & spoke to her family her husband spoke to his kids in Russian.
This whole documentary is a stretch. I’m pretty certain that they didn’t have these feelings while trying to straighten out his arm
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@@sackettfamily4685 that's NOT why they are at a higher speed🤦🏻♀️. It's because of CZcams copyright laws. You have to distort it from the original so it's not taken down . Are you new to CZcams or something?
These letters are not erotic. He was merely longing for a bond with his mother. The mother-son relationship is significant for development.
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can you imagine if Freud got hold of those letters... he would have had a field day 🤣😆
@@-BigIi- True. 🙃
@@-BigIi- Freud was sick, everything was sexual in his mind.🙄
Yeah that old pervert lol, he thought everyone would feel like he does.
How could they think the poor letters from a son to his mother wanting her affection is sexual? A bunch of old men and their dirty minds.
Dumb men think everything is sexual people wrote like that back then
that disgusted me to hear. And right after they bring up Freud, the man who thought everybody on some level wanted to F their mom.... and they don't even make it seem very weird when they say he was sexualizing his mom, they just say it matter-of-factly/casually. Now we know why this video was made, to introduce this sick Freudian psychology the "intellectuals" of our time are trying to push all over... this makes my blood boil.
@Nonaya Bidness yea they do, I’ve read about it over and over. Was taught that in school. He was an idiot and so is anyone studying psychology at a university today, or calling themselves a psychologist. They’re committing genocide just like always.
@Nonaya Bidness literally the psychobabbelers in this documentary just brought it up...
@Nonaya Bidness he’s literally credited with being the “father of modern psychology.” I get that most psychologists don’t actually think we all wanna f our parents, but they still lay the idea on the table all the time in random situations and credit him with so many common-sense ideas ... why do they even bring him up? It’s sick.
Whoever thinks his behavior was "incestuous" has no idea how it feels to be a disabled child who rarely gets attention from their parents unless it's related to the medical procedures meant to "fix" them. I can assure you, the loneliness disabled children feel is indescribable and often, lifelong.
Thank you.
Agreed
Tbh I found it natural for him to fixate on her hands, as so much attention is put on his arm and disability
I understand your point of view mine as a mother of a baby girl born with a severe eye disease but it was not discovered until I continued to watch her and knew she was intelligent and she was not getting into mischief as her sister did begin to notice she was not focusing where I was pointing to objects and I read to both at the same time and when I was certain I took her to eye specialist and omg I thought she needed glasses and she did but it was serious and progressive she had retinitis pigmentosa and we both carry a gene 🧬 for that usually kin but at that time we weren’t aware of that. She was born legally blind and I was so sorry for I felt responsible and I must treat her as normal as possible and her version of the disease was as different as could be it was her own version and I was sick doing all I could to have her ready to enjoy her life like every one else she was taught that she could do everything every one else could we just had to find her way and God bless her she has the heart of a Lion and she did everything her head was like a computer that memorized her paths she walked. I have to say we loved our children the same and tried treating them the same love for her is still very strong and now she will certainly be able to live her life when I’m gone and she married and raised two sons who have families and believe me she had to be a mother to her boys . They are both wonderful young men and so caring for their mother and father and all who are different. Love and truth with a child with a disability is imperative and teaching them they can do anything that they want.Just trying is required.❤
Probably the guy from the Freud Museum
As a daughter who adores my mother, I have in the past taken her hands and kissed them on occasion to show her how much she means to me and to show my appreciation for how much she’s done for me. This poor man just wanted to show his mother he loved her and wanted her motherly love in return.
In many cultures kissing ones hand (like the hand of an older person/ parents/ grandparents) signals respect or even submissivenes
I’m an orphan who was raised by his grandparents that said I’d hold my Grandmother’s hands next to my face/cheek out of affection so I understand where you’re coming from
@queenbee1984 You're a wonderful daughter with a beautiful spirit towards your mother. That is so refreshing, because during these times, it seems not many children show much care or respect for their mothers, no matter how good of a mother they may be and vice-versa. I was blessed to have 3 daughters, such as yourself, so I can say that I'm more than sure that your mother adores you for being such a lovely child towards her. Many blessings to you and yours, always, dear. ❤️☺️🙏🏾
He is looking for acceptance late in life of an unfortunate defect that happened during birth. Kissing hands is pleading for acceptance of his arm disability.
He was tortured as a child
Yes may be he was tortured as a child..but Vicky didn't mean it.Moreover how he treated her after the death of his father!! Vicky,yes made some mistakes but considering it was 19th century and on the top of it Willy's condition with no empathy
The Kaiser was NOT incestuous, he was pleading with his MOTHER to love him as her son...duh!
And fixated on her left hand's perfection as a way to cope with his own left hand's infirmity.
@@deidrebee1 thanks Deidre. I think this is the most obvious reason for his quest for acceptance of love and recognition for his mother. Nothing erotic or incestuous.
Psychiatry had a long, long way to go in those days too...
To be fair he said “almost” but it was the days of Freud and we all know everything was about mom and sex with him. It was a sad period of the sciences to be living under a spotlight. Cheers
Thank you for saying that!!!! I don't see incest either. I see some similarities haven't tried desperately to get some love and affection from my own mother. I did not want to have sex with her but I can relay to so many things this boy did to fill his mother's love. Also people talk different 100 years ago in the way they express themselves. I craved physical and emotional love so bad. I wanted to feel my mom's arms around me and just hold me way into adulthood. I even came to believe for a while who could possibly ever love me when my own mother doesn't. What makes it worse is when you see your sibling getting all the affection that you crave. I was from my mom's first marriage my baby sister from her second. I didn't feel wanted and probably wasn't. She had her new little family. She put her hand on my shoulder one time and tapped me I thought I died and gone to heaven. No way did I want sex with my mom what I needed and what I wanted was love and affection. It's a grotesque that it pops into everybody is mine that he wanted to have sex with his mom I don't see that in his letters at all.
This is so sad. Our son is 28, he went all through school but he can’t read or write, he’s extremely verbal. It’s hard because most people don’t like to be around him, including some of our own family members . Wherever we go, our son goes, he’s a human being and not something to be embarrassed about. The good lord put him in our hands to love and care for and we’re doing our best, he’s our special angel
The Lord God Almighty is a God of power who heals and delivers those He loves. The Lord will answer your prayers because He has heard them. Be at peace.
You lot are a bunch of beautiful souls.
Let your son know, he has earned my Eternal Love.
Lord Bless him
Blessings
For those who don't believe, a perfect example of how upbringing can, and does, have deadly effects. As for Kaiser's letters to his mother being incestuous, nonsense. It is sooooo obvious this was a young man earning for the love, touch and acceptance from a mother who was too ignorant to realize that it was she who was crippled, not her son.
These royals married their own family in Europe.
What do you call that?
@@marcellusaurelius7516No shit Sherlock. But Wilhelm was not incestuous to his mother. He did marry his first cousin though
@@marcellusaurelius7516Cousin marriage was normalized for the royal houses at that time, which is very different from first degree relatives being romantically involved. Wilhelm was married to his second half cousin,and then to his fifth cousin....they would have been about as related as any two strangers if the same ethnic group with no known familial connection.
@@kingweaslcy5067 I am Dutch and know European history . The British and Spanish royalty had deformaties in their offspring caused by incest .
@@marcellusaurelius7516 Yes! The Habsburg jaw and hemophilia (in Queen Victoria's line) are just two that come to mind.
The treatment he received was despicable, imagine having to suffer so much from all the correction attempts that didn't work,the absence of love replaced by shame from his mother and his own frustrations and helplessness for something that was no fault of yours in the first place.The whole affair was horrible and atrocious,my heart bleeds for the child.
Victoria was never known to be a good mother. This boy needed extra care and love but the Queen was not capable of it
I feel sad for him, however there are a lot of disabled or bullied and neglected children, most don't grow up to start World War One and kill millions of people. In a way, Kaiser Wilhelm reminds me of the type of mentality who causes today's mass shootings :( .....
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@@alanaadams7440 He's not Victoria's child. He was her grandson, as the title states.
@@comet1227 His mothers name was also Victoria. That is more than likely who the previous commenter is talking about.
The letters to his mother sounds like a child wanting to be touched, held by his mother - not sexual - NEEDY - how much affection did she show this boy? Nature or Nurture this poor child didn't have a chance to know humility or humanity towards others. So sad.
It wasn't particularly "normal" in the Victorian age. Queen Victoria also very little affection to her children, particularly Bernie who was considered to be unintelligent.
Bertie
I have seen Royal family letters, the one that was married off to Russia all her daughters & son, her-husband all wrote her in English they were all written I miss you Love you all romantic & stuff but it’s is all very loving between family in the same house. The father spoke Russian to the kids when he was alone with them.
People still cannot understand one very important thing.
Wilhelm would have been brought up with the notion that to allow yourself to be "sick" is to show lack of self control ...
I can relate to this thinking and has nothing to do with this mother not loving her son or not showing him that she loved him.
Just as we often hear someone say "We English do not show emotions" there is, after all a family trait here between the English and the Germans ...
I can personally relate to this traditional upbringing ... I developed a condition called Heart Asthma at the age of one year, which was likely the result of having caught whooping cough at that time. Many children died but I was one of the lucky ones that survived ... unfortunately I was not allowed to run, jump and participate with other children where running around, was concerned.
My mother was a very loving person and I know she loved me but as I matured in age, I was always made aware not to dwell on negative things such as being ill, because it was just not prudent to allow others to feel that I was incapable of being in control of my own body which could lead to people having the wrong impression about the kind of person I am.
@@loisdungey3528
To say that Berty was considered to be unintelligent is a somewhat rash judgement.
If this is the case, then most successful marriages these days suggests that a man that allows his wife to "wear the pants in the family" .. is not intelligent ?
In an ideal world, both genders have input in decision making in a marriage, instead of having a patriarchal or matriarchal relationship.
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I’m autistic my mom loves me and is my best friend she understands me and helps me I wish his mom was nicer towards him and understood him
I'm a mom with a little boy who is autistic and nonverbal, and this story makes me very sad. I love him more than everything on earth. I had a very difficult birth process to have him, but he got here safe and even though i have some disabilities myself now because of it, I'm thankful for every day we have together. I suppose if i had him in those times, he could have had birth issues like these as well.
I'm so glad this is a different time in human history. I can't imagine sending him away, or bringing people into our home to do this stuff for any reason. Home is where we are supposed to feel safe and loved. I imagine if a child grew up expecting this torture where they're supposed to be able to relax, they probably don't grow up to feel safe or at ease anywhere they could go.
You know, I really think that if his mother was caring and loving towards him, history would've been totally different from what we know today.
@@clerieginus BS, it had nothing to do with Germany if you read up on History. The kaiser was against the war until the very last minute... Its very much making things easier, and in serious study of anything in particular history the ''what happened in your childhood'' argument does not ad up to explain the big events that shape history and our world.
However the OP makes my heart melt
My little boy is nearly two and non verbal. I will have him assessed but honestly, he is perfect no matter what his abilities are. I love him, I love him so much. I wish Wilhelm's mother understood him too.
I think that was just a reflection of the time period it makes me sad
I can relate so to William's disability and childhood. My mother rejected me as I was born with a facial disfigurement inheirated from HER side. She and I were antagonists for years.
That’s so unfair. I’m sorry you’ve suffered like that.
Sheila Riley: I'm also sorry for what you've been through with your mother.
Sadly, I know exactly how you feel. Able-bodied people don't like to talk about or admit their feelings towards their disabled children. There is an excellent study about this: "Conditional Love: Parents' Attitudes Toward Handicapped Children" by Meira Weiss, et al.
Very sad!
I so relate to him. My mother prized having beautiful children. I was ok until I was about 6. I wasn't truly acceptable actually. My sister was beautiful from birth and still is to this day. I wanted my mother's acceptance only. I don't ever remember her saying, "I love you." I did tell her "I love you" many times. She most likely was traumatized by many things in her childhood also. Sad.
I'm raising my 7yr old autistic grandson and both of his parents act embarrassed by him but he's more brilliant and spectacular than both of them put together. He's truly the best part of my life and I don't know how I ever smiled before him. He saves me more than I saved him. Although he can't speak I know he loves me and that he's happy and without words he's so intelligent and clever. Many people can't express themselves even with words. It breaks my heart that that poor boy was treated that way by his hog of a mother. Poor boy. When I hear people say that we choose our parents before we come here I think of cases like this and it makes me doubt any kind of heaven at all. And then I hear my beautiful grandson laugh and I'm reminded of the good parts of life and I'm reminded to have some faith in magic.
maybe he did choose his mother before he came here because he needed to learn something through trauma.
You Believe in him. You have created a world of "Magic" for him with your love. Keep shining, you are a gift!
@@Ppepper92
People like you and your Beloved Forebear inspire me.
@@alyshaparker9251
You may be right.
It's a cruel world and heaven most likely isn't real. But that's ok because it's people like you that make life worth it!
My daughter has erbs palsy. She’s 6 months old and is basically paralyzed in her right arm. She’s having a nerve transfer surgery this fall, so thankful for modern medicine.
Good luck for the surgery
Bless her❤ How is she doing now?
Imagine being castaway and rejected by your mother to years of physical torture to the point that the only love you experience is in your dreams. Nothing good was ever going to come out of such a void.
I’m 70. Even when I was a child, disability was something to hide as it somehow reflected negatively on the family.
My late uncle (who would be mid- to late-80s now) was naturally left-handed. Every time he used his left hand to write, he got a wooden ruler across the knuckles. He wrote with his right hand for the rest of his life but did literally everything else with his left. He was in grade school in the 1940s and being a lefty wasn't (isn't) even a disability. Blows my mind. This background on Wilhelm explains a lot about his formative years and how he turned out.
True, my parents were 10 years older than you and that generation's view on all types of disabilities were different. Everything was said in a whisper even cancer were not talked about. Oh and depression did not exist, you were crazy not depressed. I think it was a lack of knowledge and ignorance at play.
@@honeybunch5765 There was enormous fear someone would see it as genetic and darken the family’s reputation forever…
I live in a town in central Victoria. Many disabled kids hidden away up here.
@@honeybunch5765 To be factual, there is no medical evidence proving depression and mental illness exist. They were invented for the DSM for a price, but sadly, most who have not been a victim of or who bought and believed in the lies of the psych industries have yet to realize this. As for disabilities, no sane person in their right and compassionate mind would want for someone to be disabled - although unfortunately, there are people now who actually not only embrace being disabled but actually try to disable themselves further. Some even disable themselves when they were already healthy and normal! It is really quick warped, but then evil is ripe in society today and unfortunately too many people love evil behavior - to their own harm and destruction.
As a parent of a disabled (now adult) child, I feel so much sadness for him. My own daughter has been challenging at times, but nonetheless, she is a gift and I couldn't love her more. She was born when I was just 17. Even in the 70's, I had a few Dr's who told me to put her away and forget that I had ever had her. So glad I was still a" know it all teen" and did exactly the opposite
Lol, good for you. God blessed you with the will and drive. It is challenging (I had one too.... She passed a few years ago and the Lord knows how much I love her).
You are awesome and full of love!
I has always astounded me that physicians did this
Good for you. I too was born disabled (Cerebral Palsied) in 1977 and in 1978 my parents were told to put me in a home because I would never talk, walk or be educated. Mom refused to and I learnt to talk by 4 and I have two diplomas and two degrees. I was married (currentlly getting a divorce) and have a 7 and a half year old daughter. I live a fairly normal life in my own home with a full-time helper and work as an editor and publisher. I look after my daughter.
Love from Gemany to you.
No one can hurt you more than parents, absolutely no one. The lack of love, caring and acceptance at the most vulnerable part of the child's life ruins his life. I don't think Vicky didn't know what her aloofness toward an already damaged child would do to him., she was just glad her other children were healthy. Poor young Wilhelm fantasising about his mother's hands, my goodness, all because Vicky couldn't accept him as he was.
Queen Victoria wasn't very affectionate to her children, so daughter Victoria didn't have a good example combined with the medical and social followings of the time period.
@@beverlyjohnson3025 yep.
@@beverlyjohnson3025 Victoria and Albert were AWFUL to their heir, Edward. It's only since Princess Diana that royals even semi-raise their own children or give them affection. And even William and Harry were sent away to school as children.
@@beverlyjohnson3025Queen Victoria wasn't top mom of the year but Albert was by all accounts a good father. Viky did have a good example. Aldough it's fair to say that her neglet is a form of abuse, it's not fair to put on her all the faults. At the time those traumatic treatments were considered perfectly fine and compleatly normal, she had no way of knowing how much William would be effected by it. She does seem however to have regreted the situation in her later years.
Well said
I didn't think the letters were incestous in any way. I think Wilhelm fixated on her hands because when we ourselves think of a mother figure we think of a woman holding a child in her hands, a caressing her baby with her hands. I think Wilhelm longed for her hands to feel the motherly warmth, he was simply a touch starved child who wanted the love of his mother, he wanted something he saw his siblings getting but not him. He sounds like a kid who does not know how to put his words across well, maybe that is why his words have been misinterpreted to be erotic in nature, he wasn't allowed to have an emotional maturity and his early childhood was filled with trauma. Maybe there is something else in the letters that may suggest incest but for whatever was provided in this video I do not think so. All I see is a child begging his mother to love and hold him.
Perhaps, in part, so. However, we have to recall that this is early 20th century, during which time there was absolutely no physical contact between unmarried males and females (upper classes), so touching a gloved hand was already very intimate. However kissing an un-gloved hand was extreme intimacy, and might be seen as a sexual desire expression when talked about in such an explicit manner in the letters.
@@SuperMarkizas yes I agree with you but this is not just a man and a woman, the dynamic is of a woman and her child, I think it being Freudian era is why people still zero on it being an incestous desire but kissing hands also means showing devotion to the other, admiration and respect. I agree with you with the intimacy part but extreme intimacy doesn't have to mean it has to be sexual intimacy, intimacy may just be an opportunity to let one be vulnerable emotionally to the other. It can also be theorised that as any neglected kid Wilhelm was acting out to get a reaction out of his mother , in a way to attract her attention. I think we all have been a bit misguided by Freudian psychology to always assume this route tbh haha. It took me awhile to know Freud was full of shit and likely projecting his own incestous desires of his mother on other people's relationships.
@@annelisemucoolname9225 well you know, we all see the world through a filter of our own making, so yeah, Freud...:) You might be right, it is hard to imagine what such a broken person was intending to do with these letters. Also, having in mind that he had issues with his arm, perhaps he had obsession (not sexual) about arms or hands of other people, we'll never know..
He was dying to feel her love which she never gave
I thought it was customary to kiss a monarch's hand throughout history... kiss the ring
His obsession on his mother's hands is because he longed for her to just hold him, hug him .... this is so heartbreaking 💔 🥺
Of course we all think back to Princess Diana and how often she would hug her two healthy, mentally and physically, children comes back to me in floods of good cheer.
They literally nearly ripped his arm off then blamed the baby for being crippled.
What Vicky did to her son is nothing short of mental, emotional and physical abuse. Its very sad and so much could have been different in history.
To suggest that she was abusive is nothing short of ignorance at best and unjust false accusation. Vicky did love her son and she was honest about her shortcomings but she never tried to outright abuse him. Imagine if someone accused you falsely as others are doing to Vicky on this board - you either don't care because you want to think as you will and like to be agreed with OR perhaps you will and realize that there are some honest women who genuinely don't want to see their child damaged and want for their child to be healed. Any true loving mother would want for their child to be well. Anyone who would suggest to embrace their child being damaged is truly abusive and very sad.
@@EmilyGloeggler7984 A mother created a monster he in turn caused the first global war. Ten of millions of deaths. Had his mother had a different Drs . Especially Dr. Freud lol.
Not to mention - this was NOT a time of mental health consideration. For anyone, anywhere. (the Buddhists were probably the closest to dealing with this kind of thing.)
I have the same disability as him, the name is brachial plexus injury. I can relate to the issues he went through. Sadly, very little has changed. Disabled people are often put through unnecessary operations to "fix" them for society with no benefit to themselves.
Astonishing the mother survived that birth after receiving that much chloroform.
Kaiser Wilhelm II is one of the most mis-understood world leaders. The world blamed him for WWI when, in reality, he hated war and longed for peace in Europe. Fun Fact: He was on vacation in Sweden when the parliament of the German Empire declared war. He only found out his country was at war when he read a local Swedish newspaper, and was appalled at the decision which was made without his consent. The Swedish king felt very bad for him as he was vacationing with Wilhelm and there was little both monarchs could do. The reason why I appreciate Kaiser Wilhelm II is because he was often mis-understood, but on the inside felt like he was shunned by the world at times. Even people who have passed, and had their problems need someone who actually appreciates them, and knows their *true* story. Gott segen Kaiser Wilhelm, and all who truly understand him.
The slaying of the animal in front of him was absolutely barbaric, practically occult. Poor child. It got worse from there. Sadistic minds.
Medical ignorance definitely. Medieval thinking for certain.
I doubt occult had anything to do with it.
uh... butchers anyone?
Sadistic means a inflicting pain, emotional and/or psychical for the purpose of sexual gratification.
Occult means secret...they killed the animal in front of him...not secretly People use witchcraft as a scapegoat for everything
100%.
This is “The crown” we want to see
There is one called “Fall of eagles” it shows the life of Wilhelm and the royals
This is the doctors you want to see? How did the family cause this? You’re doctor tells you to swallow pills and you do. Some pills have deformed and killed. Just sayin. Your anguish is misplaced but exactly where the German Queen Victoria predicted - it’s her fault.
Truth. That or the Edwardian royal era.
@@Garbeaux. The White Queen?
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These people are stupid...he's a child who longs for his mothers love, and his obsession with her LEFT hand in particular is because he feels ashamed of his own LEFT hand. And simply wants to be loved
Yes, I thought that too
They are royals: not endowed in the brain or emotional departments
Oh good. I thought it was just me! All these “experts” they interviewed and no one made that connection in this documentary and it seemed completely obvious to me.
I totally agree. It was normal even to this day to kiss the hand of a respected person . There is nothing incestuous about this except a show of love. My father as a New Zealander went and fought the Germans. He was a wonderful man and I grew up hating the Germans because of this but I believe in fairness. The Kaiser May have gone mad by the treatments but don’t add more than that.
It was kind of weird guys. Lets be honest...
I love how, every few decades, a never-before-seen stash of royal letters is found and analysed for tv
This poor boy. How ironic that years later, the Romaovs lost the crown, at least in part, because they were trying the deal with their son and heir’s disability, while keeping it a secret from the masses.
More of Queen Victoria's relatives...
@@blazefairchild465 she picked the spouses for most of her children and grandchildren. Like a horse breeder.
Yes, well spoken! Not to forget that Rasputin was able to position himself right inside the family of the Tsar by calming the son when he was in a crisis.I read quite a lot about Rasputin and I do not think he was a bad person. He was just having a default which is to get drunk and boast about his privileged connection to the Tsarina. The Tsarina never dropped her "real russian priest" and she mourned him after the assassination. Reading the memoirs of the Ambassador of France present in Petrograd till the abdication of Nikolaus II in 1917 I came to the conclusion that Rasputin was a genuine Patriot capable of being very suspicious about the reasons the Allied of Russia gave for their common fight against the Germans. Because of his critical opinion against the "Mainstream" policies pushing the Tsar to continue to fight, the Allied suspected the Rasputin to be an agent of the Kaiser whispering bad ideas to the Tsar especially through his wife. All these rumors spread by the enemies of Rasputin disgraced the Tsarina in the opinion of the Russian people in the sane time. It was a reckless psychological warfare targeting first Rasputin and in the end the Imperial family altogether and contributing to the downfall of the dynasty. Rasputin wanted Russia out of the war. He was able to tell this in the face of anybody asking him. When he did this with the French Ambassador he even asked him.. "For what are we even still fighting for, sacrificing so many Russians ? The Ambassador told him.. that if Russia will be on the winner's side.. Great Britain and France will agree to the hand over of Konstantinopolis to Russia. When Rasputin heard this.. he was a bit surprised.. and commented.. "At least this would be still something worth in the trade". But not sure he really believed the smart Diplomat. Russians well remember all the tricks made by the English and French to save the Ottomans each time it was getting close to chase them from former Byzantium and especially gain control of Hagia Sofia to make it Christian again. So now after millions of Russian peasants shot and gassed on the front lines.. these same intriguing diplomats would allow the Tsar Nikolas ll to reach Hagia Sofia and turn it back into a Byzantine Cathedral ? We know what happened ! Immediately when the Tsar abdicated in favor of his brother Michael and when the manipulator Kerensky pushed himself in the position of power the aristocratic Ambassador was replaced by a real french republican and socialist and Petrograd became a hotbed for republican agitation with many socialists floating in the city to party their success.. with the Tsar sent to Siberia chopping wood. Maybe the Tsar still hoped the Russians will be on the winner side and somebody of his family will plant the flag of Russia in Konstantinople. NOTHING OF THIS realized. All were killed by the Bolchevics who acted secretly on their own as allied of the Germans as long as it suited them.Russians were not part of the Versailles Negotiations.. and there was nobody any more who would have asked at least for Konstantinople as a prize in exchange for millions of liters of russian blood spilled in that war. In the contrary Russia fell into the hands of atheist devils and Rasputin has suggested that all this is going to happen after his untimely violent death.
@@NickVenture1 I hear bits and parts about his history. It’s shocking to see here how it all ties together. I feel a shudder down in my bones realizing how much of history is tied to being manipulated by monarchs & religion. I ask my myself there ever be a time for humanity to be at peace without money & greed getting in the way?
Very sad story and the results for the rest of the world were tragic.
As a mother of a son with disabilities I am appalled at such treatment of a human being let alone their own son. SHAME on all of them. Those who did harm and those who stood by and did nothing. They called themselves educated?
You should read how bizantian empire view their emperors disabilities. Or why there wasn't any.
The treatments he was given were of the times, not malicious, they were just ignorant of what what wrong. Medicine has come a long way since those days. They really had no idea of how to help handicapped people in those days.
Not to judge, they did what they knew then.
Anno 2023 people are more educated. 🤗
The Spartans were more cruel, they did throw unhealthy children from the cliffs. 😒
@@janetpendlebury6808 On spot
My gosh - that’s “Carson” from Downton Abbey narrating! 🙂
I thought so, too, but wasn't really sure!
I thought so too....
Thank you! I kept on trying to figure out who he was! He’s kind of like the British version of James Earl jones!
@@kathydittmer9659 love me some Carson and Downton Abbey....I have come to conclusion at my age that I am so attracted to British men....Colin Firth, Harry Styles and Hugh Bonneville.....I am going to have to take a trip across the pond... hehehe have a marvelous and blessed day
Too many read into these letters without even trying to understand what is being written.. Wilhelm was not writing about incest he was writing about wanting to be closer to his Mom..
How could anyone think of anything else??
Such a sad story for a baby who later became a man that had to remember this torture to make him better.. For Royalty..
A tragedy that affected the entire world.
The poor royals were and still are their own worst enemies.
...yeah...poor them.
Girl, THANK YOU SISTER BERNICE!
I don't think people understand. The royal's are a tradition that sincerely needs to be retired.
@@oluhamilton2121 🤣
@@please.665 Royal drama = hundreds of thousands dead. SHEESH!
@@oluhamilton2121Dead, maimed, enslaved, oppressed, divided, destroyed.
FUR THA CRRROWN!
This poor kid! I want to cry listening to the letters he wrote his mother, he was in so much pain.
Very moving documentary. The relationship with his mother was heartbreaking 💔
He looked like such a sweet child, with a more caring upbringing things would have turned out differently, I bet. Birth injury was not his fault. I can see where the word Quak's were used to describe doctors. The arm was not even a severe handicap.
We can use a current view of disability, although 130 years ago the world was horrid, even for royals.
Having a weak or disabled right arm was seen as a moral failing in those days. My grandmother was left handed. She was forced to wright with her right hand, by having her left hand tied behind her back. If she dared write with her left hand she was "corrected" by being struck with a metal ruler. This was the norm back then. Her childhood stories turned me right-handed before I started school.😳
@@leonieromanes7265 My Great Uncle attended Catholic school and it was considered the devil to write with your left hand back then. My Grandma told me that the nuns would slap his had with a ruler if he tried to write with his left hand. Such crazy archaic stuff! Terrible to do to a kid.
@@beth2398 thank goodness, we're outgrowing all the religious superstitions. I have friends who went to Catholic schools in the 80's, they were bad even then.
Drink that koolaid
So interesting how a fracture between one mother and her son led to two repeats of war between their two countries. Vikki wasn’t so intelligent if she couldn’t see what her actions were causing over time.
Ironically that Vikki is an ambitious woman.
@@karlauminga6404 What’s ironic about it?
@@davesanders5426 The irony of the video as mentioned that Vikki (daughter of Queen Victoria) had ambitions or aspirations to strengthen further the ties between Great Britain and Germany and yet her treatment of her first born son Wilhelm II that causes the split.
@@karlauminga6404 Yes, that is ironic. I always say parents who say or show that “you are no son/daughter of mine” for whatever reason are the real monsters.
@@davesanders5426 I agree on that part of disregarding disowning their children for the wrong reasons are true monsters.
He wanted love a motherly love...what all children want from our mothers. And respect as one gets older.... When you really think it, it would be so sad and painful to feel that your own mother has no love for you.
the boy was abused and that had to have a huge impact on his life, he wanted and craved his mothers love but got none and no doubt she verbally abused him as well, and that is only thing that "crippled him"!
Many thanks for giving the Kaiser of WWI's troubled youth wider attention. Most historians fault his unpredictable behavior as one reason for that war. These letters explain some of the reasons for that. I do, however, find fault with the claims that his feelings toward his mother were incestuous. It makes more sense to assume that a boy with a misshapen arm and hand would feel envious of his mother's pretty hands. This story, like many others, illustrates how the expectations of royalty often warp the relations between parents and their children in unhealthy ways.
Both Genghis Khan and Count Dracula witnessed their fathers being murdered when the boys were young. True history is more fascinating, by far, than the plethora of fiction cranked out by Hollywood each year. Same for the mountains of fictional books. Most people want fiction rather than reality. Not me.
No true loving mother would want their child to be damaged - let alone encourage their child to lie. That is really warped thinking. If I had a child who had a damaged arm like Vicky, honestly, I would be sad for him that despite everything, I couldn't heal him. Only God has that power and I'd have to leave my child up to God to heal - that's the only comfort a truly loving mother would do, rather than encourage them to embrace being damaged. To suggest doing the latter to your child or any child is sick. I know because for years, my Mom never took accountability for the damage she caused her children, and believed the lie that we were born damaged - when in reality, it was due to vaccine injuries and worse, instead of trying to heal us, like Vicky did, she encouraged us to embrace the lie and that we were even born that way, when in reality, we were not. It broke my heart to realize that about my own Mom but since being medically proven to be of sound mind and not mentally defective as she thought, and that the seizures, hallucinations, etc were induced by encephalopathy caused by vaccines and other pharmaceutical drugs, it is good to be vindicted and cleared of false accusations. As for my Mom, I wish she understood as Vicky had done - it is always good to try to heal your child if they are hurt and to never give up hope. Vicky sadly lost hope. I will agree though she tried methods that simply were never going to heal her son - like using electrocution to fix his nerves, when his nerves effectively were paralyzed. I will at least give Vicky credit - she was honest about her son being damaged and it spoiled her love for him. Perhaps if Wilhelm had realized and understood where his Mom was coming from and been more mature, he wouldn't have turned out badly and perhaps could have salvaged the relationship with her later down the road. Unfortunately, he didn't and became obsessed with her and not in a healthy way, and then ended up hating and treating her badly, because he either didn't, couldn't, or refused to understand. I can only hope in his final moments before he died, he truly did understand what his Mom Vicky had been trying to do.
Don't forget that queen Victoria herself and the British monarchy of the Hanoverian dynasty were 100% German themselves as was her husband Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.Queen Mary of Teck the wife of George V was also of German origin from the royalty of the kingdom of Wurtemburg.
One word, Rothschilds
Victoria married her first cousin Albert, and the inbreeding caused ongoing problems in the British Royal Family.
I disagree...
@@ursulasmith6402 what about them?
Mary of Teck is from direct bloodline to Vlad III, the Impaler, from Transylvania.
It is very troubling to me that there is next to nothing said or considered in regards to the father-son relationship here. Was his father such a milk toast that he just turned everything over to his wife, -Queen Vicki-, where raising his successor was concerned ??? That’s a bit hard to believe for me. How old was her husband at the time of their first child’s birth ... Vicki was all of 17 ... 🤷♀️
Here we have the future king being viewed as more of an object to be scrutinized & manipulated rather than a child whose future responsibility will be that of overseeing & directing the mechanisms of protecting an entire country’s people & properties with global influences & outcomes. Yet the queen’s (Vicki’s) focus was so extreme -in a very self serving direction- viewing her son’s paralyzed arm as the MOST problematic characteristic possessed by her poor unfortunate son.
The son, just repeatedly screaming, by his uncontrolled outbursts & actions- “PLEASE tell me I am more than the sum total of my mangled arm & your failed attempts to fix it !!!”
He was seen as a constant reminder of a rather superfluous failure when it comes to preparing a future king of a powerful country.
He obviously had a quite brilliant mind as shown by his attempts to establish a more caring & self-accepting relationship with his Mum. She felt uncomfortable with the very idea of showing acceptance for what she viewed as a weak, flawed & perhaps even a bit effeminate failure as a future royal heir. Vicki was too young & easily influenced by perceived social norms. She couldn’t define her own priorities & place a higher value on them ... she too easily opted for the socially accepted ways of the time, and too easily sacrificed her son & future king on their alter rather than setting a new & more enlightened precedent by taking an outspoken stand for valuing her child’s whole person ... body, mind & spirit.
Of course, the man who characterized the letters as "incestuous" is president of the FREUD museum. Nuff said.
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I was very fortunate with my births. I was able to have 2 c sections. My first was so large that she was still free floating at 41 weeks with zero signs of readiness of the cervix. My doc gave me the option of enducing but the potential of a broken clavicle because she wouldn't engage for more than a few hours. Her brother went from transverse to unengaged head down to a footling breech in the same week, again at 41 almost 42 weeks. I had zero changes in the cervix with both. I joke that I would have just died in the 1890s and we were all saved because they were born in the 1990s. But it's not really a joke. Childbirth, while a natural part of being a woman, was absolutely hazardous for almost the entirety of human history. Thankfully, in many countries, this is no longer the norm
Gosh yes, same for me. Three ceasarian and three healthy babies phew !
So true of childbirth many, many years ago. Ironically, the reason Wilhelm was born to be the Kaiser, and that his grandmother Victoria was even conceived and later became Queen is because her older cousin Princess Charlotte (who was the direct heir in line to the British throne) died from complications of childbirth after her infant son was stillborn.
Too much information
I'm with you! I almost died while pregnant with my first. The world used to contain _so much_ tragedy and sadness from frequent early and tragic deaths. Obviously maternal death rates are still too high when you account for all the women giving birth in refugee camps or in countries without hospitals and doctors as good as the ones you and I went to! Even though the death rates could improve, so many people have reason to be grateful for their loved ones. Makes you think!
TOO BORING
Wow....explains a lot. Doesn't excuse the errors that cost so many lives but explains how it happened...how he got so messed up.
It about broke my heart first feeling rejected by your mother and then those torturous so-called treatments. Come stories I've seen I think there were a lot of men who said they were doctors but we're not really doctors. The psychological torture almost hard to believe he survived into adulthood.
He made errors, surely, but this man was no Hilter, MANY errors were made ON ALL SIDES to cause the suffering that followed and continued.
Hah. Hitler kicked Wilhelm to the curb, once his usefulness in getting Hitler to power was used up. One tyrant to another
I have seldom been so flabbergasted as listening to these old, lecherous men misunderstand that a young boy is writing to his Mother about the dreams he is having of longing for her approval (touch of hands is one of the ways approval is shown). Mother’s and daughter’s often hold hands as they walk, or link arms. Young sons kiss their Mother’s hands. The same hands that touch the son’s face with approval, or stroke the son’s hair off his brow. There’s nothing even remotely sexual in his letters to his Mother.
How sad is the story of the Kaiser. Our understanding of certain health issues ruined the potential of good between England and Germany. I am English and German and Irish and how many families were split in the first world war.
This child's life brought tears to my eyes.
And it led to a world war, it seems, that one imagines might have been prevented if the appropriate love had been given and not cruelly withheld because of ignorance towards disability, and a need to look ''perfect'' because they were royals and the shame too scandalous to handle.
What a sad and horrible story!
@@-BigIi- Germany did not started WWI it was Austria-Hungary, Serbia and Russia.
Unless there are actually scandalous letters they can't share on television, the letters are not sexual🤨 Rather the kissing of the hands are clearly about his mother's approval, acceptance, and favor. She most likely did not touch his left hand once it was obviously stiff and smaller compared to the right. The kissing of his mother's "beautiful" hand clearly reveals his feelings of inadequacy. That is the hand she expects him to have.
I love you & your perfect hand. A perfection I desperately wish I had. Love and accept mine 💕
If anything the historian's analysis reveals his personal issues 😆
Kissing hands was a common way to relate at that time-it was NOT incestuous
It is just so properly fitting that we hear stentor Jim Carter, who acted Mr. Carson, the towering rock of Downton Abbey, so magnificently, as the voice-over.
So WWI was due to a kid’s emotional issue with no love from his mother. Wow. We need to love our kids people!
WW2 was kinda due to that reason too
Hilter had an abusive father who was against his dream of becoming an artist
Dude you need learn ww 1 history again
No, parents treat a child with a disability like all the other kids. They're 'normal'. That's what loving parents do. Treat all the same, equal .
Parents absolutely should not treat all equal. There's different needs.
But they also should not exalt one above the other.
However, they do. The worse thing they can do is then deny it and act as if it's not true. That's the real trauma. It's denying the other children's reality. That leads to mental illness.
Status does not afford such things.
@@donelkingii3738 you know, you're right. Status also seems to not afford a person basic understanding of humanity.
It affords them to be taught ideals of how things should be. Not the reality.
You need to settle down. Things were VERY different back then. She thought her way WAS loving. She could have no way of knowing how it would turn out. She lived in a completely different world than you do. Also, he has a lot of responsibility. Just because people are bad to you doesn't mean you do evil things...many people who have had bad upbringings do good for others. Stop it.
One can only imagine how the history of Europe might have been different had his birth injuries not occurred. Had his mother loved him unconditionally.
Or if his mother just accepted him as he was..no wonder he dropped bombs on their heads..I would too
it will only make him less irritable at ww1 will still happen because franz ferdinand got killed By princip
Too bad, Germans lost both wars
@@b-chu9747 because Germany was fighting against many countries at the same time, if the wars were 1 vs 1 Germany undoubtedly would have won the two wars, at The time Germany had the most efficient, advanced army in the world
@@levent.a.7280 Not at all. The French army was equal to the German army, that was clear from letters sent back from the front by the 1st 2 German chiefs of Staff. The Germans did exceptionally well ONLYbecause they Where can just Outside Paris and the Brits and the French had nNo innovation room error, so literally couldn't do anything except throw bodies at the situation,, knowing that the loss of Paris woulb. The loss of the war.
* The Germans plan was its through tto Paris before the French Mobilise effectively and especially if the Brits either didn't get involved, and didn't have enough of an Army to Support becaua It was peacetime… Then theyy were supposed to turn the entire army on Russia, having Judith French quickly and having access to their resources
*It's actually remarkable that the French supported by the British could last so long with absolutely no room for error
*As for the Second World War, the French army was again equal of Germany, EspeciallIn Thanks, the problem for the Analyse this time was again, lack of Preparation, But this time they were 2 Democracies, Listening to and Scared of the response of their citizens, Were the political elites to tell Them that MobilisingAGAIN for more, when the First World War had been The most savage experience and history.Hitler did not have such a problem, because he wasautocratic leader He was elected, so he didn't have to worry a About public opinion.
* Again, the lack of will and preparation of the Brits and the French led to them leaving the Ardennes undefended,, not realising it was penetrable if they had defended the Ardennes, the Nazis would have lasted even a year,, having to commit to the Western front, whilst trying to keep occupied Regions quiet, with virtually no army left to defend - the fall of. France was crucial for any success the Nazis had the rest of the warasted
Back in those days handicaped children where his away in actics, asylums, or sent away to other relatives. It was looked upon as a shame on the families gene pool!
They hid his crippled arm to avoid criticism from the public that eventually ruined the relationship between a mother and son.. Here we can learn that criticism, bullying and withheld love from family can produce a very destructive situation..
Vicky was a terrible mother & didn’t even bother to hide it. She basically tortured him to such an extent it made him the men who felt he had to prove his masculinity. Queen Victoria absolutely loved Wilhelm and was her favorite grandchild. What’s extremely sad is the fact his mother Vicky didn’t reciprocate his love. No wonder he turned out like he did. This Uber masculine monarch inevitably turned into the cruel and careless individual learned from his mother. One could say, bc of Vicky, she could be blamed for WWI.
He wasn't Victoria's favourite grandchild. She grew to despise some of his behaviour, particularly towards his parents, Victoria's daughter and son-in-law. He did have a special place in his grandmother's heart as her first grandchild though.
That's one way to look at it -- from a 21st century perspective. They did not have the meds and therapy we have now. And if they had called in an English Dr., rahter than be jealous if them, earlier the damage may not have been done.
@Garbeaux AE Alexandra, empress of Russia and daughter of Victoria's third child and second daughter, Princess Alice, was her favorite grandchild, not Wilhelm.
Vicky actually was not terrible. She did everything within her power to heal her son, and what happened to him wasn't her fault. However, she should have taken comfort knowing her son's mind was not damaged, and that it was only one arm that the nerves were damaged. She wanted the best for her son, as any sane mother would. What kind of woman would actually want for her son to be damaged? Now that would truly be a terrible mother, and Vicky did not want her son damaged.
@@Chuck0856 No one deserves quackery - then and now.
A REAL MOTHER wouldn't see her son's disability as a FAULT at ALL.
Thank goodness times have changed and we as a society are more inclusive than past times.
Even back in the 1970s kids with disabilities were put in homes in the US. But families were much bigger until the pill came out in about 1969. So then they did away with a lot of the homes for disabled children. So now people have them at home which is were children belong.
She was a mother of her times. Blaze Fairchild (commenter) correctly points out that even as recently as the 70's-ish, disability was seen as sometimes a curse and definitely, 100,% something the mom did/didn't do. I suppose that's why moms would do their best to emotionally disconnect from their disabled child. The guilt & shame was too unbearable & unrelenting. I know it's hard to fathom, but if you could go back in time, you'd be very hard pressed to find a mom you would label as a REAL MOTHER. And if a mother from "back then" could have popped into todays society, she would be hard pressed to find what SHE'D consider a REAL MOTHER. When you're 60-70 you'll likely be appalled at the society & parenting practices as recent your grandchildren's generation. Seems it's practically a 'tradition" to do so. 🤷
@@andreamarshall911 no time has changed nothing. Maybe for mother’s but not the healthcare community. I had a disabled child.
@@pamelaneibuhr6959 provably false. Lots has changed towards disabilities in the medical community. Your personal experience, fraught with issues though it may have been, does not mean the entire system is that way.
So disappointing that the failing of the doctor is hidden from plain sight, even today.
The doctor who delivered Wilhelm really saved his life and that of his mother. It was a protracted breech birth in 1859. It was lucky both survived.
@@zzzbbbooo I wouldn’t call that lucky that they both survived.
I always thought of Wilhelm II as a crazy and cruel man. This story explains so much.
Lmao thinking willhelm was crazy and cruel while in his era Germany was much better to live in than England
It seems like most tyrants in history have had some level of familial complications that shape their character. They try and hide their weaknesses and flaws behind a veneer of power and masculinity, but this clouds their judgment.
Lol. In which alternative reality was the German emperor a tyrant. Unless you are talking about the Russian czar. In that case I apologise.
It wasn't a German Emperor that ruled over a quarter of the Earth's land mass and exploited every citizen and resource they controlled.
@@bigguy1164 Tell it. I can't believe how people are so quick to accept fairy tales and simply cannot put 2 and 2 together.
@@lindakachur4862 Wilhelm was no doubt a weird guy, loud and a braggart caused by a poor upbringing. But he wasn't the devil. He was the perfect scapegoat for the British and French and their true aspirations: Putting Germany back in its place. Germany was tipping the mainland European power balance out of France's hands, and was constructing a fleet that would challenge the British sea superiority. For that Germany had to be destroyed twice over.
@@karlkarlos3545 I used “tyrant” for a lack of a better word. Couldn’t think of another word at the time. I too understand where Kaiser Wilhelm and his intentions come from, despite his bellicose rhetoric.
Monsters are created. We see that very clearly here.
You make it yourself too easy.
This was NO monster.
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You foolishly besmirch the good name of the Kaiser.
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It is really unfortunate that he grew up in such an abusive and emotionally depraved environment but that did not warrant his anger that would go on to cause the death of millions of innocent people. He might not be the sole reason for the beginning of the Great War but he definitely was one of the reasons, and a huge one too. So many lives needlessly lost because a family couldn’t stop feuding. Vicki was a terrible mother and, honestly, deserves to rot in hell but she was right about one thing- that it would be better for GB and Germany to be allies in order to keep the world peace
Kaiser actually against the war he even criticized Franz Joseph when he declared war on Serbia even though Serbia had accepted almost all of its ultimatums
The family resemblance between Kaiser Wilhelm and his cousin Prince Albert Victor as children is amazing
The phenotypes present in that entire extended family are striking in their similarities. Owing of course to the inbreeding. You can see it from Victoria down through to Prince Charles, around the eyes most of all.
@@peepindisYep. Tsar Nicholas II and King George V too, identical twins.
The letters were not incestuous or erotic.
Somewhere along the line, he was reminded (probably by his mother) that his mother had normal hands, and he only had one.
Her withdrawing affection made him crave that tiny bit of physical connection... to kiss her normal hand. For him to confess a dream, only to have her return the letter with corrections, much have been devastating.
Edited to add: The narrator is Jim Carter (Mr. Carson on Downton).
I though I recognized the narrator’s voice as his. 👍🏻
Excellently narrated. Such a sad, sad story. I never would have guessed. It isn't taught us like that in school.
When they were reading the letters, I felt the poor boy had so much unconscious attachment to the hand. But that could be because of his physical deformity and the torture that he went through. Kids look up to their mother, she is their everything so naturally it makes sense that he dreamt about this mother's hands. Maybe it is the unconscious thing of having such beautiful hands like his mother's, would fix the relationship between them.
This video was beautifully done, but what a truly sad and tragic story for all involved.
I don’t think there is anything erotic about the letters. I think that he was trying to say that he loves his mother and that he knows he has a bad hand/arm and wants his mothers touch as a mother he was missing this closeness.
That brace resembles the type of brace used for people with Schüermann’s Disease (Kyphosis) called a Milwaukee Brace. It is used in pediatric patients to straighten the back until bones naturally fuse at end of puberty, so there is room for lungs to fully expand, heart to have room to grow, and to prevent chronic lifelong back pain.
Of coarse a freudian would say it was something other than wanting to be loved by his mother. Give me a break.
Love how it’s still portrayed as if the Germans were the sole aggressors and “took up arms” against their own royal family when Britain had wanted the war for two decades and helped create the alliance structures that led to it. Just because they didn’t attack first doesn’t mean they all didn’t want war.
The winners write the History. More like slanted it to appear the winners are Pure and Holy.
Just goes to show how bizarre the monarchy really is-
"The monarchy"??? What monarchy do you refer to here? You do realise Germany no longer retains one, I trust?
I like how this documentary shows more empathy to Princess Vicky than Kaiser Wilhelm over his disability. “Poor Vicky she gave birth to a cripple”.
I find it very disgusting what they did to him as a little boy just because his arm was bad
@@eliotreader8220 no wonder he grew up so messed up
The narration is ridiculous. So overly dramatic. The historians are more rationally balanced
WILHELM was not a cripple by birth. A nerve in his arm was damaged by an incompetent Doctor during his birth. And this damage was never correctly diagnosed in the early days of his life. Because the baby first had two normal looking arms and nobody will suspect that one arm already lacks power for good.. The damaged nerve is letting less electricity pass to the muscles in forearm and the hand. During the growth of the child this lack of nerve power will occasion less growth of the weakly irrigated members. Such damages on a nerve can be repaired by surgery.Usually there forms a knot at the wound on the nerve which a surgeon can discover quite easily.But in the 19th century they used Chloroform to make a patient asleep and there were always risks to die from an operation. No antibiotics neither. The parents thought that the arm will get stronger by exercising once the underdevelopement became visible. The child was forced to exercise OBSESSIVELY. But already in the 19th century it was possible to explore the nerve and cut out the knot and reconnect the nerve properly. As early as possible done this will avoid the underdevelopement of muscles. Many of such cases were already treated in those times and reconnecting sectioned nerves was feasible. Military surgeons had experience with wounded soldiers.
Yes, that was really sad to see and it shows that very little has changed since than. We can have all PC words in the world but if we can't change our mindset araound disability almost nothing will change!
This biography is a great example of nature vs nurture. Wilhelm's cousin once removed was King George VI, who also suffered abuse as a child--abuse so prevalent, he developed a stammer which he had all the rest of his life. KG VI had a different outlook on improving himself to the best of his ability so he could be of service and fulfill his obligations in the best interest of his country and of his people.
Conversely, the Kaiser developed hatred and a ego-centric viewpoint about how to get back at his mother and her home country. He had an opportunity to be a truly great man who was--due to his father's political machinations--head of a consolidated Prussia/Germany. He did not take up the banner, so to speak, instead choosing the sword. This decision was not only a loss so much potential, it was the loss of so much life, infrastructure, and economy--all of which moved Europe (even the World) from tentative peace and prosperity during the Edwardian era to WWI and the resulting devastation....which also laid the groundwork for Hitler's rise to power and to WWII as well.
Utter, fantastical nonsense
What!? Are you kidding me!?! Only a pervert would think these letters are sexual. This is a human little sweet boy craving affection from his mom. I' so glad to see other are commenting in the same vein. I can't even watch the whole episode. He's not a pervert! He's a little kid...he needs love and affection. He needs his mommy..at the very lest.
His arm isn't even THAT much shorter than the other one. =.=
At first, I was looking for something a little more...drastic? then I saw the pics, and I'm like...."oh, that was it?"
Even if it was a very short arm, so what? It's just an arm. There's people out there literally born with no brain stem, or allergic to everything from water to sunlight. Then you got others with short life expectancies, and their unformed twin's body parts/faces growing out of different parts of their bodies, and feeding off of them, and then you got people physically and mentally stuck as babies until they die about a decade later. Then you just got the Hapsburgs in general. Things could have been soooooo much more complicated. And that boy was traumatized for legit NO reason, resulting in a series of time-altering events that again, happened for NO reason.
What a horrid mother she was.
The English Queen Victoria wasn't a good mother so what hope did her children have.
I don't think people have a good understanding of what was expected of royal women until relatively recently. Her reaction could hardly be classed as something organic. She was a bargaining chip vessel used to create perfect _male_ heirs. She wasn't even in control of who she married. The only reason Queen Victoria got to _choose_ Prince Albert was because she ended up being monarch. She HAD to choose her consort. She also had to propose to him because she was monarch. This wasn't normal for women _at all_ though. At all.
This video literally tries to inform about how this would have been for a royal women in the mid-19th century. It was a reflection of her. The doctor didn't take responsibility for it publicly, she did. It would have been seen as a failing on her part. It was not a case of, oh, the world was actually accepting of disabled people and she was just weirdly mean. The world was _not_ accepting of disabled people and would have seen a disabled prince as the failing of the mother; there being something wrong with her ability to procreate healthy kids. The father would usually be seen as blameless in such circumstances. She would have been reckoning with the idea that she was defective in her _only_ purpose in society-making babies-with no one denying that fact to her. This would have been amplified by 1000 being a royal with an entire empire expecting perfect heirs from you instead of just 2 families.
That being said, Queen Victoria wasn't a better mother. She hated the fact that she had so many kids and didn't want them. They were an unhappy result for her of her enjoyment of intimate life with Albert. She wasn't a loving mother to any of her kids and was bitingly harsh.
I feel like much younger people don't even really understand anymore how useless girls/women were still very much considered at this time.
@@Meladjusted only as good as a bargaining chip.
Those ‘royal parents’ of that time had little or no relationship with their children. They barely ever saw them or interacted with them-rather ugly!
@@Meladjusted Yeah, I am aware of all of this. But still, it sucked ass. XD
These letters are not erotic at all! To kiss a royal hand and a royal mother at that is a sign of total admiration. These men are disgusting to interpret it this way. Disgusting.
You seem to be missing the part where he said his mother undressed. Definitely not normal.
A whole documentary narrated by Mr. Carson? Count me in!
Besides the personal tragedy concerning the whole family an the role they were expected to play- there is something missing.
He was mere or less just a pawn in a bigger game of interests that didn't start or end with his person.
I get that he felt angry at her. I am the 3rd of 3 children, and I am disabled. My mother has rejected me because of that fact.
I am sorry to hear that; I wish you the best in your life🙂
I’m so sorry to know this
I'm sorry to hear that, but please remember that mothers are imperfect creatures.
Sue her for emotional and physical neglect
Sue her mother? For awful upbringing? Is that even possible?
⭐️ Sad, tragic, and barbaric treatment of Prince Wilhelm, by no fault of his own may he R.I.P. The letters from Wilhelm are a result of a very sad and mentally depressed young boy, due to the lack of motherly love. A mother, who couldn't see pass his disability, and brought to life her shamefully disappointment. “The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry”
There is absolutely nothing erotic in these letters at all. The perverted minds of old men never ceases to amaze me. Anyone not possessing a perverted mind can see this for what it is. He is craving the one thing he never had. His mothers love and affection. Not sexual at all
What I find most striking is that the father is not mentioned at all. Did he have any role at all in his son's education and so-called alternative medical treatments?
My reaction also. Friedrich isn't mentioned at all here, and while I imagine during that time the mother's role was to care for the children, the first born son of a future Kaiser had no attention from his father? Maybe he just didn't write letters, Vicky did and so these Freudian/historians chose to put total blame on her. Clearly, Wilhelm was tortured in childhood by these alternative medical treatments which do seem to be responsible for his rage, hatreds, confusions, inferiorities, etc. His mother ----- and I'm assuming also his father ---- treating him during his childhood as the sum total of his physical handicap certainly must have caused severe emotional damage. A damaged boy grew into a very damaged man who saw the world in a very negative, rageful way. The thing is that in reality Wilhelm's injured left arm was not that awful of a handicap, it's just that he was a royal and was expected to be perfect, and that apparently magnified his disability in his mother --- and I'm guessing his father's --- minds.
As for the incestuous Freudian stuff, what was quoted in the video seemed characteristic of how people in wealthy/upper crust circles in the mid-1800s wrote and spoke. Unless there are more specifically sexualized passages in Wilhelm's letters to Vicky, I think the Freudians are over-blowing it. Wilhelm clearly must have had conflicted feelings for his mother who both nurtured him and oversaw/enforced those torturous medical treatments, and was trying to express his confused feelings of love, hate, hurt, and rage. What is left out is what did Wilhelm feel about his father, what kind of parent was Friedrich for Wilhelm, and how did that aspect of his childhood play into the awful Kaiser he became.
No. His mother was on charge of all of that. She took the baby away from Vicky as soon as he was weaned and hired a private teacher, with whom Wilhelm spent most of his life until around age 15-16.
@@farsicalspeaking3356 It was Frederick’s mother who ordered the alternative therapies. She took Wilhelm away almost as soon as he was weaned, said an English woman wasn’t fit to raise the heir to the Prussian throne, and hired a private teacher with whom Wilhelm spent most of his waking time from age 3-ish (reliably potty trained and old enough to start learning to draw his alphabet) through age 15-16.
What a great documentary of this prince's sad life, I hate the way his mother treated him,and how this changed him into a bitter person who caused the death of thousands of people.
Dude You should blame Conrad von Hotzendorf for that. He's the one who wanted the war to happen
So great to be with you again, Carson. Oh how I have missed you. 😘
Wow, amazing documentary. Good spotting the beautiful voice. Thanks👏
This is the most haunting story. A lack of love and understanding produces such terrible repercussions.No one mentions Wilhelm's father or even grandfather here. Did they play no role at all in his life? That too in a way is a lack of love.
I suggest reading Wilhelm's two autobiographies. Very intelligently written, very informative. I can tell you this much: He spoke with highest esteem and affection of both his parents, but it is also clear that he felt that his father was the warmharded one, not his mother. And my opinion is, there must have been indeed a rapture in the relationship to his mother after Kaiser Friedrich's horrid death, partly caused by her fault. P.S. Kaiser Wilhelm I had a long, turbulent life, as a child, he and his mother Queen Luise fled Napoleon, which caused her early death from pnomonia. She was said to be one of the most beautiful women of her time, and dearly beloved by her children and the population. Kaiser Wilhelm I did many things for her commemoration as long as he lived. Wilhelm II seemed to have liked his grandfather much, but since Wilhelm I wasn't really fond of "Vicky", and had many complaints about her, there might not have been that much contact. In short: Wilhelm II loved his family, and Queen Victoria was his favourite grandmother.
I always flash to him in his military garb and boots walking behind Queen Victoria's coffin during the funeral procession.
If only his mom showed him love and sympathy. There could never have been a war
Are you stupid Wilhelm never caused ww1 and tryed to prevent it. There would never be a war Russia and France monilized first Austria-Hungery was attacked by terrorists and the antaunte was made to be against Germany.
The cruel treatment towards this boy is utterly astonishing. Young Wilhelm would have been much better off if raised by a loving typical family today than by evil monarchs then.
Videos like this are how I best learn history. I want a story of real people, not just dates and wars. New sub. Thanks for fascinating history lesson.
Same. ❤
I hear Jim Carter and hear Carson reading me a story.
Watching the video I was thinking of the mother, queen Vicky, and how in the comments she's going to be low-key blamed for being cold and distant. She had one job - to produce a male heir, and she herself was a product of her time and class. There was no such thing as childhood, i.e. postponed adulthood, so both Wilhelm and Vicky were being moulded into their roles since birth. I bet Vicky had a lot of sense, composure, and determination as a young mother and later in life, but her objective was to make Wilhelm a Kaiser, and she was failing at it. Nobody allowed _her_ to just let Wilhelm just be, so no wonder she saw him as a failure, despite how modern people might perceive it.
It was so sad ..she should have loved him even more knowing he needed her so badly. I really feel so sad For him. Poor soul
Could they really not understand that treating him like that, his mother denying him her love, would turn him away from her and give him bitter feelings? It seems very clear that if you love your other children, but deny it to one it won’t be good.