opinia o wzorcu niemieckiego mieszczanina, 3 marca 1904.
Wilhelm II Hohenzollern: 76 cytatów1 Polubienie
Wilhelm II Hohenzollern słynne cytaty
wygłoszone w Toruniu 22 września 1894.
Źródło: Lech Trzeciakowski, Pod pruskim zaborem 1850–1918, Wiedza Powszechna, Warszawa 1973.
„Moja rada, to więcej przemówień i więcej parad, więcej przemówień, więcej parad.”
słowa skierowane do cara Rosji Mikołaja II.
„Będziecie w domu, zanim liście opadną z drzew.”
obietnica złożona żołnierzom na początku I wojny światowej
Źródło: Tomasz Małkowski, Jacek Rześniowiecki, Historia III. Podręcznik do klasy III gimnazjum, s. 248.
„Car rosyjski nadaje się jedynie do życia w chałupie i uprawiania rzepy.”
opinia odnośnie Mikołaja II, wyrażona brytyjskiemu ministrowi spraw zagranicznych, lordowi Lansdowne’owi.
„Wróćcie, zanim liście opadną z drzew.”
słowa skierowane do żołnierzy idących na front, sierpień 1914.
wygłoszone w Malborku 5 czerwca 1902.
Źródło: „Katolik” nr 68, 10 czerwca 1902
Kommst ihr vor den Feind, so wird derselbe geschlagen! Pardon wird nicht gegeben! Gefangene werden nicht gemacht! Wer euch in die Hände fällt, sei euch verfallen! Wie vor tausend Jahren die Hunnen unter ihrem König Etzel sich einen Namen gemacht, der sie noch jetzt in der Überlieferung gewaltig erscheinen läßt, so möge der Name Deutschland in China in einer solchen Weise bestätigt werden, daß niemals wieder ein Chinese es wagt, etwa einen Deutschen auch nur scheel anzusehen. (niem.)
27 lipca 1900 w Bremerhaven, podczas odprawy oddziałów żołnierzy niemieckich udających się do Chin w celu stłumienia powstania bokserów.
Źródło: Mowa huńska, przeł. Henryk Stanke, w: Wielkie mowy historii, t. 2, wyd. Polityka Spółdzielnia Pracy, Warszawa 2006.
Wilhelm II Hohenzollern Cytaty o czasie
słowa skierowane do króla Belgii Leopolda II, 1904.
„Admirał Atlantyku pozdrawia Admirała Pacyfiku”
sygnał wysłany do cara Mikołaja II w czasie manewrów morskich, interpretowany jako sugestia podziału stref interesów
Źródło: Rozmowy przy stole, Wyd. Charyzma, 1996, ISBN 8387025820
słowa skierowane do króla Włoch Wiktora Emanuela III.
Wilhelm II Hohenzollern: Cytaty po angielsku
Remarks to his doctor, Dr Haehner (7 October 1922), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile 1900-1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), p. 1235
1920s
Marginal note to a memorandum written by Hellmuth Lucius von Stoedten (May 1918), quoted in Fritz Fischer, Germany's Aims in the First World War (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1967), p. 580
1910s
“The poor French…They have not read their Mahan!”
On France's diplomatic retreat from war with Britain during the Fashoda Incident (1898), quoted in Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (London: Penguin, 2004), p. 206
1890s
Letter to Alwina Grafin von der Goltz (July/August 1940), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, The Kaiser and his Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 211-212
1940s
Letter to Eva Chamberlain-Wagner (14 April 1927), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile 1900-1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), p. 1236
1920s
Telegram to Hitler (19 June 1940), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile 1900-1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), p. 1261
1940s
Speech (18 April 1891), quoted in Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (London: Penguin, 1975), p. 158
1890s
Letter to George Sylvester Viereck (21 April 1926), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile 1900-1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), p. 1237
1920s
“I shan't give this up again, I swear to you.”
On a visit to Flanders in Belgium which was under German occupation, said to Rudolf von Valentini (20 October 1915), quoted in Fritz Fischer, Germany's Aims in the First World War (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1967), p. 424, n. 1
1910s
Remarks to his doctor, Dr Haehner (8 March 1921), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile 1900-1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 1234-1235
1920s
Letter to General August von Mackensen (2 December 1919), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, The Kaiser and his Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 210
1910s
Marginal note in a telegram from the German ambassador in St Petersburg, Count Friedrich von Pourtalès (30 July 1914), quoted in Fritz Fischer, Germany's Aims in the First World War (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1967), p. 121
1910s
To the Daily Telegraph on his attitude towards Britain
The Growth of Nationalism (1992)
"Hun Speech": Kaiser Wilhelm II's Address to the German Expeditionary Force Prior to its Departure for China (27 July 1900) http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=755&language=english <br class="br">1900s
Speech in Hamburg (18 June 1901)
As quoted in Germanism from Within (1916) by Alexander Duncan Mclaren
1900s
Wariant: Germany must have her place in the sun. (is not of Wilhelm himself but of Bernhard von Bülow
Georg Alexander von Müller's diary entry (9 September 1918), quoted in Georg Alexander von Müller, The Kaiser and His Court (London: Macdonald, 1961), p. 343
1910s
Letter to Kurt Jagow (5 July 1940), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile 1900-1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), p. 1238
1940s
Minute in response to a memorandum by Henning von Holtzendorff (18 March 1917), quoted in Fritz Fischer, Germany's Aims in the First World War (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1967), p. 306, n. 3
1910s
“Where my Guards appear, there is no room for democracy.”
Speech to representatives of German political parties (20 July 1917), quoted in Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (London: Penguin, 1975), pp. 379-380
1910s
Marginal note in a telegram from Constantinople (29 July 1914) regarding the wish of the German military delegation to return, quoted in Fritz Fischer, Germany's Aims in the First World War (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1967), p. 121
1910s
Marginal note on a report from the London Conference of Ambassadors (December 1912), quoted in Fritz Fischer, Germany's Aims in the First World War (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1967), p. 33
1910s
Conversation with Arthur de Claparède, the Swiss ambassador (10 December 1912), quoted in John Rohl, 'Germany', in Keith Wilson (ed.), Decisions for War 1914 (London: University College London Press, 1995), p. 41
1910s
Speech at Koenigsberg (25 August 1910), quoted in Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (London: Penguin, 1975), p. 157
1910s
On his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, as quoted in Harold Nicolson, Sir Arthur Nicolson, Bart., First Lord Carnock: A Study in the Old Diplomacy, London: Constable & Co., 1930, p. 214 http://books.google.com/books?id=CFUZAAAAIAAJ&dq=editions%3AISBN0571269028&q=treacherous <br class="br">1900s
Georg Alexander von Müller's diary entry (19 March 1918) before German Spring Offensive, quoted in Georg Alexander von Müller, The Kaiser and His Court (London: Macdonald, 1961), p. 343
1910s
“You will be home before the leaves fall from the trees.”
Addressing German soldiers departing for the front in WWI (August 1914), as quoted in The Chanak Affair (1969) by David Walder, p. 21
1910s
Wariant: You men will be home when the leaves fall.
Letter to Margarethe Landgraffin von Hessen (20 April 1941), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile 1900-1941 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), p. 1262
1940s
On the Sultan of Turkey, while on the railway to Baghdad
The Growth of Nationalism (1992)
Remarks made after the first German successes of the Spring Offensive (26 March 1918), quoted in Fritz Fischer, Germany's Aims in the First World War (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1967), p. 618
1910s
“The battle is won, the English have been utterly defeated.”
Georg Alexander von Müller's diary entry (23 March 1918) after the first German successes of the Spring Offensive, quoted in Georg Alexander von Müller, The Kaiser and His Court (London: Macdonald, 1961), p. 344
1910s
