Frasi di Guglielmo II di Germania pagina 2

“Io non ho ministri, sono tutti ministri del principe di Bismarck.”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 682

“Dinanzi a Dio e dinanzi alla storia la mia coscienza è pura: io non ho voluto la guerra.”

Citazioni di Guglielmo II

“Dinanzi a tanta remissività la guerra non è più indispensabile. […] Con queste parole ogni motivo di guerra cade. Giesl [l'ambasciatore austriaco a Belgrado] doveva rimanere tranquillamente a Belgrado: dopo questo non avrei mai ordinato la mobilitazione.”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 681

“Io non conosco più partiti: conosco soltanto dei tedeschi.”

Citazioni di Guglielmo II
Origine: Commentando la risposta della Serbia all'ultimatum dell'Austria, nel 1914, dopo che l'Austria aveva già dato inizio alla prima guerra mondiale; citato in Luciano Canfora, 1914, Sellerio editore, 2006, pp. 81 sg.)

“La spada è levata ed io non posso rinfoderarla senza la vittoria o senza onore.”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 679

“[Dopo Caporetto] La terribile disfatta dell'avversario è un giudizio di Dio.”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 680

Guglielmo II di Germania Frasi e Citazioni

“Mi considero come uno strumento del Signore e, senza tenere in alcun conto le idee e le opinioni del giorni, andrò per la mia strada.”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 682

“[Dopo la dichiarazione di guerra, 4 agosto 1914] Nella necessità impostaci dalla difesa impugniamo la spada con coscienza pura e mano pura.”

Citazioni di Guglielmo II

“Noi siamo il sale della terra, ma noi siamo anche degni di esserlo.”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 678

“Non ostante che la Germania non abbia quella flotta che dovrebbe avere, noi abbiamo saputo conquistarci un posto al sole. Sarà adesso mio compito di fare in modo che il posto al sole rimanga nostro possesso indisturbato, in modo che i raggi del sole possano illuminare con frutto il nostro lavoro e il nostro commercio nei paesi stranieri.”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 678
Citazioni di Guglielmo II

“Per la prima volta mi vergogno di essere tedesco.”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 682-683
Citazioni di Guglielmo II

“Quando si viene alla lotta, cessa ogni partito: noi siamo soltanto fratelli tedeschi.”

Citazioni di Guglielmo II

“Siamo destinati a grandi cose, ed io vi guido verso tempi meravigliosi.”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 679

“[Sui nemici della Germania nella I guerra mondiale] Adesso li pesteremo di santa ragione.”

Citazioni di Guglielmo II
Origine: Citato in Guglielmo II di Cesare Marchi, in Le ultime monarchie, p. 45, 1973, Istituto Geografico De Agostini.

“Mettete in opera tutta la vostra abilità e tutto il valore dei miei soldati, per prima cosa, per sterminare gl'inglesi traditori e per annichilire il piccolo spregevole esercito del generale French.”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 679

“Noi dobbiamo la vittoria al nostro vecchio Dio. Egli non ci abbandonerà, perché noi ci battiamo per una causa giusta e santa.”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 680
Citazioni di Guglielmo II, Attribuite

“Non vi è più nessuna legge internazionale.”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 681
Citazioni di Guglielmo II, Attribuite

“[Sull'esercito inglese] Poveri ragazzi!”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 681
Citazioni di Guglielmo II, Attribuite

“Ricordatevi che siete il popolo eletto. Lo spirito del Signore è sceso su di me perché io sono l'imperatore dei Tedeschi! Io sono lo strumento dell'Altissimo. Io sono la sua spada, il suo scudo e il suo vicario. Sventura e morte a coloro che disobbediranno alla mia volontà! Sventura e morte ai codardi e agli uomini senza fede!”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 680
Poor boys!
Citazioni di Guglielmo II, Attribuite

“All the Jews needed to be expelled from the press, none of them could be allowed to work their poison in this way, one day I would see, on his restoration, what a pogrom there would then be, but of a different and more effective kind than all those in Galicia!”

citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 680-681
Citazioni di Guglielmo II, Attribuite

Guglielmo II di Germania: Frasi in inglese

“[Peace] is completely impossible between Slavs and Germans…Peace with Russia can only be maintained by fear of us. The Slavs will always hate us and remain our enemies! they are only frightened of a man and they only respect him if he hits them hard! S. [see] Japan! So it will be with us, too! The Entente, if it wants, and if my diplomacy is too stupid, can always do what it likes in Russia - it has driven it into war; but our preponderance in the German area is necessary to keep Russia away from our eastern frontier once and for all; no peace with Russia, however favourable, will give us that!”

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

“The poor French…They have not read their Mahan!”

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 English ruling classes are] Freemasons thoroughly infected by Juda. The British people must be liberated from the Antichrist Juda. We must drive Juda out of England just as he has been chased out of the Continent… Juda's plan has been smashed to pieces and they themselves swept out of the European Continent! [Europe is] consolidating and closing itself off from British influences after the elimination of the British and the Jews!”

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

“Our Christian God, the merciful, forgiving God, the personification of eternal love, our father, as Christ has taught us, had absolutely not the slightest thing in common with the vengeful bloodthirsty, angry old Jaweh of the Jews…the old Jew-God Jaweh is…identical with Satan!”

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

“Under the deeply moving impression of France's capitulation I congratulate you and all the German armed forces on the God-given prodigious victory with the words of Kaiser Wilhelm the Great of the year 1870: "What a turn of events through God's dispensation!" All German hearts are filled with the chorale of Leuthen, which the victors of [the Battle of] Leuthen, the soldiers of the Great King sang [in 1757]: Now thank we all our God!”

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

“The soldier and the army, not Parliamentary majorities and decisions, have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.”

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

“They [Jews] belong to the Coloured Races and not the European White Race…which they intend to enervate, subjugate and destroy!”

Speech (18 April 1891), quoted in Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (London: Penguin, 1975), p. 158
1890s

“I shan't give this up again, I swear to you.”

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

“The Engl[ish], French and German Jews were all in cahoots with one another. Their sole aim was to establish the Jewish domination of the world. Therefore they first had to enslave the German people completely. The Engl[ish] Prime Minister [David Lloyd George] was completely in the hands of the Jews…When a new era dawned once more in Germany the Jews would meet their fate in no uncertain terms. They had syphoned off some 80 billions out of the country. They would have to repay all of this, the government must start by demanding 15 billions immediately. They would have to forfeit everything, their art collections, their houses, all their property. They would have to be removed once and for all from all their public offices, they must be thrown completely to the ground.”

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

“The deepest, most disgusting shame ever perpetrated by a people in history, the Germans have done onto themselves. Egged on and misled by the tribe of Juda whom they hated, who were guests among them! That was their thanks! Let no German ever forget this, nor rest until these parasites have been destroyed and exterminated from German soil! This poisonous mushroom on the German oak-tree!”

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

“England must…have the mask of Christian peaceableness torn publicly off her face…Our consuls in Turkey and India, agents, etc., must inflame the whole Mohammedan world to wild revolt against this hateful, lying, conscienceless people of hagglers; for if we are to be bled to death, at least England shall lose India.”

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

“You English are like mad bulls — you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, that you would heap on us such suspicion as is unworthy of a great nation… I regard this missaprehension as a personal insult… You make it uncommonly difficult for a man to remain friendly to England.”

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

“Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.”

To the Daily Telegraph on his attitude towards Britain
The Growth of Nationalism (1992)

“In spite of the fact that we have no such fleet as we should have, we have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun shall remain our undisputed possession, in order that the sun's rays may fall fruitfully upon our activity and trade in foreign parts, that our industry and agriculture may develop within the state and our sailing sports upon the water, for our future lies upon the water.”

"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

“I haven't had a wink of sleep since I left Wilhelmshohe. I'm gradually cracking up. The troops continue to retreat. I have lost all confidence in them.”

Speech in Hamburg (18 June 1901)
As quoted in Germanism from Within (1916) by Alexander Duncan Mclaren
1900s
Variante: Germany must have her place in the sun. (is not of Wilhelm himself but of Bernhard von Bülow

“I was deeply moved by the incomparable achievements of the German Wehrmacht, leading to such prodigious successes. I followed the development of operations in minute detail with the aid of maps. Under brilliant leadership all sections of the armed forces displayed the greatest courage to achieve deeds that were quite stunning. The ignominy of November 1918 in the forest of Compiègne has been wiped out and the Diktat of Versailles torn up!”

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

“Agreed, reject…This is the end of negotiations with America, once and for all! If Wilson wants war, let him provoke it and then have it.”

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

“Where my Guards appear, there is no room for democracy.”

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

“Must stay there and also foment war and revolt against England. Doesn't he yet know of the intended alliance, under which he is to be Commander in Chief?!”

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

“Chapter 2 of the Great Migrations…is over. Now comes Chapter 3, the Germanic peoples' fight for their existence against Russo-Gallia. No further conference can smooth this over, for it is not a question of high politics, but one of race…for what is at issue is whether the Germanic race is to be or not to be in Europe.”

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

“[The unavoidable] racial war, the war of Slavdom against Germandom…[in which the] Anglo-Saxons with whom we are related by common ancestry, religion and civilisatory striving, allow themselves to be used as tools of the Slavs…if this question…cannot be solved by diplomacy, then it will have to be decided by armed force. The solution can be postponed but the question will arise again in 1 or 2 years. The racial struggle cannot be avoided - perhaps it will not take place now, but it will probably take place in one or two years.”

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

“I look on myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way regardless of transient opinions and views.”

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

“The Tsar is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.”

Speech at Koenigsberg (25 August 1910), quoted in Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (London: Penguin, 1975), p. 157
1910s

“I will take the Duchy of Courland, I, the victor by the strength of my sword, but not from the hand of the assembly.”

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

“You will be home before the leaves fall from the trees.”

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

“The feats of our brave troops are wonderful, God gave them success. — May He continue to help them to peace with honour, & the victory over Juda & Antichrist in British garb.”

Addressing German soldiers departing for the front in WWI (August 1914), as quoted in The Chanak Affair (1969) by David Walder, p. 21
1910s
Variante: You men will be home when the leaves fall.

“Let me assure the Sultan and the three hundred million moslems… That the German Emperor will ever be their friend.”

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

“If a British parliamentarian comes to sue for peace, he must first kneel before the imperial standard, for this is a victory of monarchy over democracy.”

On the Sultan of Turkey, while on the railway to Baghdad
The Growth of Nationalism (1992)

“The battle is won, the English have been utterly defeated.”

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