Wilhelm II made more than a thousand speeches, putting himself at the centre of every debate. Christian Gauss selects and introduces the most revealing: on the Hohenzollern tradition, his first acts as emperor, addresses to the Reichstag, to striking miners and to soldiers, set in the political context of each, with different versions where officials softened his words.
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