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If you like my videos and want to support me, then you can do that here: https://www.patreon.com/SirManateee Thank you :) Tips: https://ko-fi.com/sirmanatee Thumbnail design by: Borys Vision [https://www.behance.net/basvision] This video is about the so-called 'Three Emperors' Year' of 1888, where three different Kaisers ruled over the country within the span of just a few months: Wilhelm I, Frederick III and Wilhelm. I try to disprove the myth that if the liberal-minded Frederick III hadn't died of cancer that year, he could have transformed Germany into a liberal, parliamentarian monarchy like that of the UK. Instead, I show his history would probably have gone done a very similar path. Literature: - Clark, Christopher: Kaiser Wilhelm II. A Life in Power, London 2009. - Fischer, Robert-Tarek: Wilhelm I.. Vom preußischen König zum ersten Deutschen Kaiser, Wien; Köln & Weimar 2020. - Kraus, Hans-Christof: "Wilhelm I. (Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig)", in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 28 (2024), S. 137-140 [Online-Version]; URL: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd118632884.html#ndbcontent. - Mombauer, Annika: Die Julikrise. Europas Weg in den Ersten Weltkrieg, 2nd Edition, München 2014. - Müller, Frank Lorenz: Our Fritz. Emperor Frederick III and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany, Cambridge & London 2011. - Nonn, Christoph: Bismarck. Ein Preuße und sein Jahrhundert, München 2015. - Röhl, John C. G.: Wilhelm II. Deutscher Kaiser 1888-1918, in: Schindling, Anton & Ziegler, Walter (Ed.): Die Kaiser der Neuzeit 1519-1918. Heiliges Römisches Reich, Österreich, Deutschland, München 1990, pp. 419-444. - Seier, Hellmut: Friedrich III. Deutscher Kaiser (1888), in: Schindling, Anton & Ziegler, Walter (Ed.): Die Kaiser der Neuzeit 1519-1918. Heiliges Römisches Reich, Österreich, Deutschland, München 1990, pp. 410-418. - Ullrich, Volker: Die nervöse Großmacht. Aufstieg und Untergang des deutschen Kaiserreichs, 3rd Edition, Frankfurt am Main 2024. Music Used: Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 Fehrbelliner Reitermarsch Brahms - Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Mov. III, Op. 90 Beethoven - String Quartet No. 6 in B Flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6 - II. Adagio ma non troppo Dvorak - Serenade for Strings Op22 in E Major larghetto Chopin - Ballade no.1 Op.23 Mendelssohns Symphony No. 3 in A minor (Scottish), MOVEMENT I, Op. 56 Dvorak - String Quartet No. 10 In E Flat, Op. 51 - III. Romanza Chapters: 0:00 Wilhelm I: Life and Rule 9:45 Frederick III: A Promising Figure? 24:12 A Withered Alternative 29:38 Wilhelm II, the Sudden 39:23 The Wilhelmine Era 46:26 Conclusions 47:59 Outro