Richard Stanley
Well-Known Member
I just watched these two interesting biographies, the first of Kaiser Wilhelm II and the second of General Erich Ludendorff.
Both of these individuals played strong roles in regards to WWI and this launching us into WWII. These are strictly the surface narratives, and so mentions of that the leading royal families of Europe were all reproducing cousins play no role in conspiratorial geopolitical motivations. Instead Wilhelm II is driven by a competitive need to overcompensate for his defective arm. He loves his dear Auntie Victoria, but this can't stop him from falling into Thucydides' Trap (i.e the lesser German state rising against the dominant British power).
Ludendorff is the bridge between Wilhelm and Hitler, with Ludendorff escaping prison after the Beer Hall Putsch. The docu states that it is Ludendorff's anti-Semitism and blaming of the German Left for the defeat that provided so much impetus for the rise of Hitler. The irony is that Hitler was the new leader of a worker's party, which are normally the domain of the left (and Otto Strasser says the DAP was indeed 'socialist'), associated with 'socialism' that Ludendorff rails against. But as we've discussed on another thread, this was all bait and switch, including the adding of the terms 'nationalist' and 'socialism' into the DAP, making it the NSDAP.
The Ludendorff docu states that he was a detached (from reality) armchair general, even taking a month off from leading the war from mental exhaustion. And like Ludendorff, Wilhelm expressed anti-Semitism, perhaps also to deflect from his role. Yet, it was his royal 18th century ancestors who gave us the Romantic Blood and Soil ethno-nationalistic impulse, simultaneously brought such as the Rothschilds to financial power, and his later Prussian ancestors who first employed Marx. Neither WWI or WWII were winnable for the Germans (especially with Hitler in charge), and the outcome was Israel and the EU.
Both of these individuals played strong roles in regards to WWI and this launching us into WWII. These are strictly the surface narratives, and so mentions of that the leading royal families of Europe were all reproducing cousins play no role in conspiratorial geopolitical motivations. Instead Wilhelm II is driven by a competitive need to overcompensate for his defective arm. He loves his dear Auntie Victoria, but this can't stop him from falling into Thucydides' Trap (i.e the lesser German state rising against the dominant British power).
Ludendorff is the bridge between Wilhelm and Hitler, with Ludendorff escaping prison after the Beer Hall Putsch. The docu states that it is Ludendorff's anti-Semitism and blaming of the German Left for the defeat that provided so much impetus for the rise of Hitler. The irony is that Hitler was the new leader of a worker's party, which are normally the domain of the left (and Otto Strasser says the DAP was indeed 'socialist'), associated with 'socialism' that Ludendorff rails against. But as we've discussed on another thread, this was all bait and switch, including the adding of the terms 'nationalist' and 'socialism' into the DAP, making it the NSDAP.
The Ludendorff docu states that he was a detached (from reality) armchair general, even taking a month off from leading the war from mental exhaustion. And like Ludendorff, Wilhelm expressed anti-Semitism, perhaps also to deflect from his role. Yet, it was his royal 18th century ancestors who gave us the Romantic Blood and Soil ethno-nationalistic impulse, simultaneously brought such as the Rothschilds to financial power, and his later Prussian ancestors who first employed Marx. Neither WWI or WWII were winnable for the Germans (especially with Hitler in charge), and the outcome was Israel and the EU.