Imagine a monarch, holding personal command of his army, disbanding his regiments, sacred with a hundred years of history-and handing his towns over to Anarchists and Democracy. (Wilhelm II of Germany)

Imagine a monarch, holding personal command of his army, disbanding his regiments, sacred with a hundred years of history-and handing his towns over to Anarchists and Democracy.

Wilhelm II of Germany

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