After WWI, Kaiser Wilhelm II was exiled as part of the peace negotiated at Versailles. Families who prospered under the old system hoped for his eventual return, even as the Nazis rose to power ...

On July 28, 1914, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II returned to Berlin after a long sailing holiday in the North Sea and off Norway. While vacationing, Wilhelm had tried to follow the events of July ...

Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Concise Life. By John Röhl. Cambridge University Press; 240 pages; $24.99 and £16.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk IT IS hard not to feel a smidgen of sympathy for John ...

Wilhelm was the last German emperor (Kaiser) and king of Prussia. As a child he was subjected to cruel physical conditioning to "correct" physical disabilities. This, combined with the standard ...