The Kaiser?
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did he ever rise to hitler level?
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It did have the Kaiser, who was a dangerous lunatic prone to sudden “brainstorms” that sent his subordinates scrambling to soothe rattled diplomats and craft new policy. (Sound familiar?)
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The Kaiser fit the bill at the time, but it was so long ago. There isn’t footage of him like there is of Hitler, and we don’t teach WWI or memorialize it like we do WWII. ‘Til the centennial I had to repeat myself when I said I’m a WWI buff because everyone assumed I’d said WWII.
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Well the there was the Hun imagery - Rape of Belgium, unrestricted submarine warfare and all that but the mass atrocities against civilians seen in WWII were not practiced. As Keegan wrote, “a curiously civilized war” in some ways for such a staggering death toll
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The scythe cut down young men of all major European countries but not across society as a whole except maybe in Serbia and Russia, the latter more to Revolution and civil war than WWI
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The Red Baron (charismatic, but not really villainous, just an enemy, esp to Snoopy)
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And we should always recall Ludendorff wasn’t satisfied with his handiwork. In Weimar he kickstarted the entire volkisch far right politically, including the Nazis (he later regretted empowering Hitler and told Hindenburg that appointing Hitler chancellor would be ruin)
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