One of the last true monarchs. If I had a Delorean, I would go back 110 years to try to smooth things over between the Empires. Europe was murdered in the Great War.

Es lebe unser Kaiser Hurra ‼️🖤🤍❤🙏

Germany's golden age.

Kaiser Wilhelm was a very proud man by heart. History has proven that!

When you're the most op player in the game so everyone gangs up on you

All hail the Kaiser! A great friend of Norway! God bless.

Kaiser Wilhelm II. He's my favorite leader, aside Bismarck.

I didn't have nearly enough Kaiser Wilhelm in my day until now.

Poor Kaiser he would be rolling in his grave if he knew whats happening in todays germany

The Kaiser is so beautiful in color..

des uniformes, des casques et des décorations absolument magnifiques !

Adding in color(or perhaps this was originally filmed in color) really changes the viewer's perception of these old images. They look fresher and more modern. Thanks for the upload.

Not bad! Not bad at all. Great man, he financed the rebuild of my hometown after a devastating city-fire in 1904. Gott erhalte kaiser Wilhelm!

Tannhauser's overture makes those photos even better.

it's amazing how color makes such a difference. Black & white images always create sort of a distance between then and now, but thanks to colorization that distance shrinks. Good job!

wilhem ii is beter than merkel :(

Oh Kaiser Wilhelm, you lay in State, waiting in Doorn.. In your wake, left Forlorn, the German Reich has lost its way, needs it Kaiser to break the slate! A new dawn on this day! The German Folk awaits its well fought fate!

Excellent job. You've managed not to lose any of the clarity and detail that photographs had in this era.

That's fabulous, like no time has passed.

Thanks for the great view of the past!

Leaving aside the politics, the colouring has been skilfully done, thank you.

Its amazing to see pictures of Albrecht in Color. I am a direct descendant of him, he is thrice my great grandfather. You have made me smile by coloring images once thought long gone in our family. We greatly appreciate the love that is shown to him, as we all know the members of Hohenzollern family are the rightful rulers of Germany.

Very nicely done, really brings the photos to life.

He sure would turn in his grave if he could see Germany today

The last three pictures of Wilhelm II were taken when he was in exile in Holland after the war.

What a handsome man !!

Proud forgotten and fotgotten-made/hidden times and history...

..damn! - those colours are ASTONISHING!... :)

Very nice color renditions. Nice work!

¡Que gran trabajo!. Gracias por permitirnos ver estas imagenes de personajes y epocas tan lejanas, que tan solo conociamos en blanco y negro, en su color original. En verdad se agradece.

He did a good job hiding his left arm!

Fantastic job man ... really love this. Great job thanks for posting.

this is total badass. i love this time period in history, and seeing this makes me sad i didnt live during it,

I like the tradition and honor the nobility brings. Some of the best figures in world history have been monarchs. I also don't like how decisions are made by the popularity of the decision not by how good the decision is. There have been examples were great ideas have not been implemented because they were unpopular. Also, democracy does not necessarily equal freedom Wilhelm's Germany was a very free country.

@59Skott @59Skott Look my deviantart profile.:) kraljaleksandar is my username on deviantart. I colorize with Photoshop. I try to use real colors of the Prussian uniform not just guessing. Thanks for the comment.

Ich verbeuge mich mit großer Hochachtung und großen Respekt dem Kaiser gegenüber.

Holy shit, does are detailed photos. Excellent!

@LotrFC I make colorization with Photoshop.Thank you for your nice comment.

Ein Kaiser der das damalige Deutschland modernisiert und (was viele nicht wahr haben wollen) auch liberalisiert hat. Sicher eines der bewundernswertesten Staatsoberhäupter im Deutschland des 20. Jahrhunderts.

Welcome and thank you for the comment.

thank you so much for this

All wars are bankers wars. WW1 and WW2 were two parts of the same financial enterprize. Which countries fight each other is almost random and irrelevant to the bankers, that's why nobody can really explain why WWI started. /watch?v=5hfEBupAeo4

In the pictures of his exile in the Netherlands he almost looks like Don Quixote with that beard. Wilhelm gets a bad rap, like usually happen with those who are on the losing side of History, but let's be fair. He gets compared unfavourably to his father Frederick III, to other monarchs and heads of state contemporary to him and above all to Bismarck, but one would love to know what either of those would have done if they were in his shoes. Even the cunning and cautious Bismarck wasn't above reproach. He made blunders of his own too, like for instance the Kulturkampf, goaded by the liberals and driven by his anti-catholic and anti-polish bogotry, or the bloody way he intended to deal with social-democrats in 1890. Even his role as honest-broker in the Conference of Berlin backfired. So in some respects Wilhelm was wisest that the much praised Bismarck. Wilhelm was, I think, more open-minded that the iron chancellor. Germany enjoyed 26 years of peace under the reign of Wilhelm, with stability and a visible improvement of the life for the mass of the population. Despite that, the Kaiser was the target of a campaign of slander and ridicule both abroad and in Germany, in the press and in the Reichstag, all of which he suffered stoically. In the long run it damaged his self- confidence. And yet he's routinely caricaturized as a medieval despot. The attempts of a rapprochment with France, Britain and Russia were unsuccessful, but how could had been otherwise, when the three of them were pursuing a policy of encirclement against Germany? The single-minded determination with which Germany fought during four years is a testament to the unity of the people around the Kaiser. When the German government saw the war lost it requested an armistice, but Wilson rebuffed those overtures with delaying tactics. They didn't want Germany defeated, they wanted the fall of the Kaiser. This provoked the uprising of november and drove the country into anarchy and revolution, which should had been avoided. The fall of the monarchy benefited no one, except the communists and national-socialists. Political assassinations, street battles, armed uprisings, all these things became commonplace after 1918. It wasn't so under Wilhelm II reign

if you think about it the world would have been better if there was no war and germany stayed a monarch.Why did the black hand have to kill the one austrian who wanted to help them?ignorance is mans greatest flaw

Your work looks really awesome. It´s much easier to imagine how the world and the people looked in the past with so high quality colorized photographs. You should try to sell your work to popular history magazines and TV channels.

I have a friend who is apparently a direct descendent of him.

great job, congrats!

Wunderschön, danke!

@TheSmithDorian Thank you.

Just been reading up on him. Poor fella, with his deformed left hand after birth trauma- forced to ride a horse by his mother until he was in tears. This lead to further psychological traumas and an inferiority complex against his English cousins. A psychotherapist would have a field day with this chap. He should have had more cuddles growing up

Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht von Preußen wird heute zu Unrecht geschmäht. Die frechesten Stimmen wagen es sogar, ihn als Vorläufer von Hitler zu betiteln ...! Er war ein Tölpel und hat Deutschland in die Schieflage brachte. Aber keiner hat sich mehr vor Ausbruch des Krieges den Frieden gewünscht als er. Und auch wenn er geschickter gewesen wäre, hätte er den Frieden nicht sichern können. Keiner konnte das bei der Wirtschaftskraft des Reiches, die für die anderen Länder unannehmbar war.

Actually, if you read the Constitution of the German Empire, you will find that it is very like how Great Britain was run.

@WauhopM Thank you!

Extraordinario trabajo de coolorización

@GeneralBurkhalter1 Thank you for your comment :).

Because Fridech Wilhelm was married to Empress Victoria of England and Prussia had close ties with Britain which why he wore a Scottish a costume or maybe he liked Scotland.

Sehr Schoenes Kunst!! Very good work and I loved this post.

@jerryaltman I use Adobe Photoshop CS2.

@Alexander1868 Thank you!

@Alexander1868 Thank you!

They shouldn't have fought each other for a much simplier reason: 10 million people died, and many others were gravely injured, had lost loved ones, or were traumatised for life. Moreover, in a way WW1 was a cause of WW2.

Very nice. Thanks for posting.

@Wargoat90 Thank you for your nice comment.

This is really wonderful work you have done. ARE THERE ANYMORE PLEASE?

excellent work!

@TalonMercenary yeah like 2 times a year but back in the day they wore uniforms all the time and looked like kings and royals

Great job!

Excellent!

Many thanks for the suggestion

As an old man he kind of reminds me of my grandfather

Yes, he was 1913 in Berlin for the royal mariage with Wilhelms II daughter Princes Viktoria Luise and Prince Ernst August of Hannover, who was also a Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Excellent Work Thank You

Anyone know the name of the march in this video?

that's one thing i miss about today's European monarchies they all wear business suits and look like bankers ... i love the old days where they dressed all up in uniforms. all the time and you knew they were royals

@katto2012 Thank you!

@lonewulf44 Thank you very much! :)

Deutschlands dümmster Ruinator und Zerstörer der Deutschen Monarchie gestiefelt und gespornt bei seiner Liebblinsgtätigkeit, den Miliitärparaden!

How do you do this? It looks like real coloured pictures or like parts of films. Great job

An amazing compilation of photos of the once great monarch. Can I ask what the piece throughout the video is?

Nicely Done.

Wonderful,greetings from Chile.

Schoene Abeit,vielen Dank fuers zeigen. Thank you for your time to make these old pictures more beautiful for everybody.

@99pppo Thank You! You made my day.

well done!

@jochenberlin45 Vielen Dank für den Kommentar.

I want to live in that era... =(

All of Queen Victoria's diaries have been preserved and I believe she did write one diary entry which says something along the following lines: "I worry about my grandson, I fear what he may do".

The older Kaiser Wilhelm II would have made a far better Kaiser than the younger Kaiser Wilhelm II. In his youth, he was self-serving, arrogant, an egotist and a jingoist with an inflated world-view of himself and the German state. The older Wilhelm from his journal entries was a clairvoyant, humble and experienced. If that Kaiser Wilhelm II had ruled the German nation, the outlook of Europe would be different today,with Germany being the largest European nation and still a great military power.

.... UN GRAN EMPERADOR Y REY , PARA UN GRAN PUEBLO ....

@chefsessel81 Thank you.

You're preaching history when you think that Kaiser Wilhelm was the first cousin of a man who ruled England in the 1300s? You clearly have no grasp of history. Wilhelm was not the cousin of any King Edward but rather of King George. King Edward VII was not King during WWI (he died in 1910) and actually Wilhelm and his grandmother Victoria were very close and Wilhelm had a great admiration for the UK. Until WWI the British royal family had many German titles and vice versa.

Спасибо, оочень интересно! Качество сканов отличное, и марш в тему!

It was his LEFT arm.

@Alexander1868 You have done a Fine Job, Alexander! Thank you so much. By the way, I thought the old Kaiser looked better with that full beard. Too bad he didn't use it before his exile.

how did you do the in color

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Большое спасибо за ваш комментарий. :)

Hail the Kaiser from Brazil!