Kaiser Wilhelm II in color

[CardShark989]

what a terribly indiotic leader but hey these pictures are amazing

[GBOY69GAY]

@CardShark989 The USA´s history is full of idiotic leaders. Kaiser Wilhelm II was a modern monarch and he had many good ideas. He modernised Germany and developed sicnificantly education and he was strongly against the use of child workers in factories (like in Britannia). Their place was at school. He was much better monarch than for example that his cousin George V in Britannia. What comes the WWII, France, Russia, Serbia and Austria caused it. Wilhelm II never wanted that war.

[olinowetz]

...on 0.52...the guy on the right...is it George V?

[CardShark989]

@olinowetz wilhelm was his cousin so possibly

[jochenberlin45]

besonders wenn man die vielen ehem.Bundespräsidenten bedenkt die alle noch hohe Pensionen bekommen, dann ist ne kaiserliche Familie billiger

[PipeOnkel]

@jochenberlin45

Heil dem Kaiser, heil dem alten Deutschen Reich !

[jochenberlin45]

Schöne colorierte Bilder äh Postkarten - läßt die kaiserliche Zeit in bestem Licht erglänzen, bis 1914 ja auch so gefühlt,naja die Geschichte hat dann ja anderes gezeigt, aber trotzdem wirklich schöne Arbeit und Qualität.

Gruß aus Berlin JG

[Alexander1868]

@jochenberlin45 Vielen Dank für den Kommentar.

[BaDitO2]

@jochenberlin45 ich bereue es regelrecht 100 Jahre zu spät geboren worden zu sein. Wenn man mal vom ersten Weltkrieg absieht. Vielleicht kommen die europäischen Repuliken wieder zu Sinnen, und erkennen wie wichtig eine Monarchie zur Kulturerhaltung ist, im Zeitalter der Globalisierung.

[PipeOnkel]

@BaDitO2

Richtig ! Sehr richtig, Kamerad ! Du sagst es : Kultur ! Sieh dich doch mal um in Neukölln, Marxloh, Ehrenfeld, Kreuzberg...... Wo ist sie hin ?

[BruderLeviticus]

@BaDitO2 Du sprichst mir aus der Seele. :-D

[TheGamechrisi]

@BaDitO2 ich finde alle Monarchisten und Patrioten auf YouTube und co müsste man anschreiben und fragen ob man nicht eine Gemeinschaft bilden wollen wo nur Welse drinnen sind die was für Deutschland tuhen wollen,z.b Demos usw. wenn man genug Mitglieder hat kann man eine Partei werden, wir können nicht länger zusehen und warten bis was passiert Deutschland geht zu Grunde und das müssen wir verhindern unsere Kinder und Kindeskinder werden es danken

[BaDitO2]

@TheGamechrisi deutsche-monarchistische-gesel­lschaft.de bin grad dabei ein werbe Video dafür zu machen^^

[BaDitO2]

@TheGamechrisi ws mir noch eingefallen ist: ein problem bei demos: die die diesen Gedanken eher unterstüzen leben eher in ländlichen gebieten. seinen wir ehrlich: die städte sind von roten gedanken durchdrungen, die unser Land zu Grunde richten. Bis jetzt ist leider kein Franz-Joseph Strauß 2.0 aufgetaucht der dies beenden könnte. Der Mann ist einfach zu früh gestorben.

[Ryttmastaren]

Just Long live Monarchy! Long live the Kaiser!

[BruderLeviticus]

Wow, excellent work! I know many of these images from old postcards (my hobby ;-)), but your colorization is so brilliant LIFELIKE, that it makes easy to say: "Lang lebe der Kaiser! (because the quality of the images let ones mean he sill lives on ;-D))

Breathtaking!

[Alexander1868]

@BruderLeviticus Thank you very much for you nice comment about my work. :D

[derralf03]

Ein Kaiser der das damalige Deutschland modernisiert und (was viele nicht wahr haben wollen) auch liberalisiert hat. Sicher eines der bewundernswertesten Staatsoberhäupter im Deutschland des 20. Jahrhunderts.

[lonewolfjohnny74]

...Incredible!! Almost as they were snapped decades later! Thank you for these.....

[Elberiver11]

Es lebe der Kaiser!

[Emk4630]

THANKS

[45DidDid]

That's fabulous, like no time has passed.

[victorbonatti]

Hail the Kaiser from Brazil!

[EliasCalabretta1]

An amazing compilation of photos of the once great monarch.

Can I ask what the piece throughout the video is?

[Alexander1868]

@EliasCalabretta1 Alexandermarsch.

[NickVenture1]

Schoene Abeit,vielen Dank fuers zeigen. Thank you for your time to make these old pictures more beautiful for everybody.

[SEVENTHSON89]

how the hell did you get such an awesome quality of photos? amazing!

[Alexander1868]

@SEVENTHSON89 Huis Doorn Photo Collection.:)

[Wargoat90]

One great job for historical science! Thank you

[Alexander1868]

@Wargoat90 Thank you for your nice comment.

[MicrosoftVistahasser]

Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht von Preußen wird heute zu Unrecht geschmäht.

Die frechesten Stimmen wagen es sogar, ihn als Vorläufer von Hitler zu betiteln ...!

Er war ein Tölpel und hat Deutschland in die Schieflage brachte.

Aber keiner hat sich mehr vor Ausbruch des Krieges den Frieden gewünscht als er.

Und auch wenn er geschickter gewesen wäre, hätte er den Frieden nicht sichern können.

Keiner konnte das bei der Wirtschaftskraft des Reiches, die für die anderen Länder unannehmbar war.

[BruceWayne20107]

hey friend~thnak you

have a wonderful day~~~

[blueboy921]

1:17 LOL

[blueboy921]

sag mir nicht dass die HELLBLAUE Röcke hatten ? oh nein :(

aber krass gemacht !

[agovics1]

Druže, predobar si, ajde mi pošalji link svog Facebooka na Private Msg. :) ?

[lonewulf44]

Fantastic job man ... really love this. Great job thanks for posting.

[Alexander1868]

@lonewulf44 Thank you very much! :)

[blueboy921]

@shadowhunting

hat aber nich lange gelebt ;)

[Richardhedditch261]

Kaiser Wilhelm lived just long enough to see the Nazis conquer all of Western Europe. How fitting was that !

[TheBlodger]

Holy shit, does are detailed photos. Excellent!

[max1980as]

The dude is buried about 20 km from here in Nähe.

[Ryttmastaren]

Monarchie fur Deutschland!

[TheSmithDorian]

Excellent job. You've managed not to lose any of the clarity and detail that photographs had in this era.

[Alexander1868]

@TheSmithDorian Thank you.

[FRAGIORGIO1]

Beautiful uniforms which would look good today in Germany for such a great nation, along with the restoration of the Hohenzollerns, but as constitutional monarchs Heads of State instead of the old politicos who serve as Presidents of Germany. A Head of State should be a non-political figure that has to do with the history and unity of the country, ergo, the Hohenzollerns for Germany. They might want to call the monarch Koenig instead of Kaiser for psychological reasons. Georg Friedrich, King!

[andmaketherain]

@FRAGIORGIO1 Interesting thou, you never hear about the restoration of Imperial Germany by the majority of the german peoples....

[mainestategop]

What song is that?

[OSHABBAO]

@mainestategop

Alexander Marsch (German March)

[LotrFC]

How do you do this? It looks like real coloured pictures or like parts of films.

Great job

[Alexander1868]

@LotrFC I make colorization with Photoshop.Thank you for your nice comment.

[Plautus123]

@Alexander1868

can u do the same with third Reich pictures?. That'd be cool

[FRAGIORGIO1]

@Alexander1868 You have done a Fine Job, Alexander! Thank you so much. By the way, I thought the old Kaiser looked better with that full beard. Too bad he didn't use it before his exile.

[GeneralBurkhalter1]

Its amazing to see pictures of Albrecht in Color. I am a direct descendant of him, he is thrice my great grandfather. You have made me smile by coloring images once thought long gone in our family. We greatly appreciate the love that is shown to him, as we all know the members of Hohenzollern family are the rightful rulers of Germany.

[Alexander1868]

@GeneralBurkhalter1 Thank you for your comment :).

[DomanglianEmpire]

@GeneralBurkhalter1 You should become kaiser of Germany! I would support you if you did. :P

[GeneralBurkhalter1]

@DomanglianEmpire

Haha, that is very unlikely my friend! But, should it happen, I can assure you Europe would become a much stronger Region, with Germany taking the lead!

[TalonMercenary]

Good music

[theone1087]

The older Kaiser Wilhelm II would have made a far better Kaiser than the younger Kaiser Wilhelm II. In his youth, he was self-serving, arrogant, an egotist and a jingoist with an inflated world-view of himself and the German state. The older Wilhelm from his journal entries was a clairvoyant, humble and experienced. If that Kaiser Wilhelm II had ruled the German nation, the outlook of Europe would be different today,with Germany being the largest European nation and still a great military power.

[pzjg70]

THANK YOU !!!

[chefsessel81]

it's amazing how color makes such a difference. Black & white images always create sort of a distance between then and now, but thanks to colorization that distance shrinks. Good job!

[Alexander1868]

@chefsessel81 Thank you.

[MrCombat1965]

@chefsessel81 You're right, some of these look as if they were taken quite recently.

[cksteele]

that's one thing i miss about today's European monarchies they all wear business suits and look like bankers ... i love the old days where they dressed all up in uniforms. all the time and you knew they were royals

[TalonMercenary]

@cksteele Britain's still wear uniforms on special occasions

[cksteele]

@TalonMercenary yeah like 2 times a year but back in the day they wore uniforms all the time and looked like kings and royals

[Myles0Harcourt]

Germmany should become a monarchy again!

[DanasHater]

Sind diese Bilder farblich authentisch, sahen die Uniformen usw. wirklich so aus?

[heinixxx]

@DanasHater

Gute Frage, würde mich auch interessieren!

[katto2012]

Wonderful,greetings from Chile.

[Alexander1868]

@katto2012 Thank you! 

[jockie0706]

Ist das Hoppeditz Erwachen?

[jozepska]

I want to live in that era... =(

[steve4nj]

this is total badass. i love this time period in history, and seeing this makes me sad i didnt live during it,

[pearlsnaredrummer77]

Cool! The Kaiser rocks!

[HazMatMedia]

Lovely work.

[Maxuskrachus]

Awesome work, thank you.

[1533Montaigne]

so viele perverse auf einem haufen sieht man sonst auch nicht oft.

[emoney5783]

How did you do this in color is what I'm trying to say but I keep making mistakes

[Alexander1868]

@emoney5783 I make colorization with Photoshop.I do it without special knowledge.But if you want to know to colorize this good you must try hard and one day you gonna do it like me. :D

[emoney5783]

how did you do the in color

[emoney5783]

How did you Do t

[Elizabettaish]

very good! what's this music?

[Alexander1868]

@Elizabettaish Alexander Marsch.

[Elizabettaish]

@Alexander1868 Thank you!

[Elizabettaish]

@Alexander1868 Thank you!



[VitalSoX]

DAM, if you see this, history look SO different, THANKS for this amazing video.

[TalonMercenary]

this man would never have dared stand against his grandmother if she were still alive at this time

[PROSPE78]

Yes! Lead us in the war! Let us die in dirt under grenades! Destroy all our culture and let us think only on the god of war and nice buttons of uniforms!

[59Skott]

Wonderful colourisation! Hats off to you! Did you have to guess the uniform colours? It really brings "Kaiser Willi" to life again! He is one my my favourite Prussian/German leaders. You have to tell me how you colourise images from the distant past! I have fotos of the Tsar and Bismarck I'd love to have colourised!

[Alexander1868]

@59Skott @59Skott

Look my deviantart profile.:)

kraljaleksandar is my username on deviantart.

I colorize with Photoshop.

I try to use real colors of the Prussian uniform not just guessing.

Thanks for the comment.

[Vyna80]

It's amazing how much of a difference it makes to be able to see historical figures in color. Really brings them to life.

[Maulwurf12296]

Heil dir im Siegerkranz , Herrscher des Vaterlands , Heil Kaiser DIR !!!

[pumpupjam54]

The best of his world and so many others in those days ended in the summer and beginning of fall of 1914.  I must say he looked so dashing as he grew older after he lost his German Empire. But he wasn't alone, Bavaria went to, so did Austria/Hungary, Russia all except his cousins in England. He should have listened to his Uncle Edward, his family would probably still have Germany to rule over. Instead it got divided 4 ways at the end of 45.

[AvuncularFeldspar]

Excellent!

[99pppo]

Your work looks really awesome. It´s much easier to imagine how the world and the people looked in the past with so high quality colorized photographs. You should try to sell your work to popular history magazines and TV channels.

[Alexander1868]

@99pppo Thank You! You made my day.

[ColaPac]

Wahnsinn! Diese Bilder imponieren mehr als so ein Bundeskanzler oder ein ''Führer''...

Heil Kaiser Wilhelm II. !

[WauhopM]

well done!

[Alexander1868]

@WauhopM Thank you!

[junevi2000]

What is the title of the military march music, please.

[Nicchelsea]

@junevi2000 It's the alexander Marsch

[FIFTYxNINExFIFTY]

I swear to god I stand like this guy some thimes And picture myself just like him ! If I could go back in time and meet him I would

[JuliusAnudasson]

oooh He looked so beautiful when he was young. <3

[barbarie92]

Dios salve al Kaiser Wilhelm II!!! Viva la Alemania Catolica!! 

[SuperTravis898]

errrr, anyone want to explain to me why the north is soo dull looking, well it is called the north but if theyw anted tourist they should have taken the pics in summer, lol. Im from Hessen, and Bavaria what do i know about north germany??!

[declandowney]

if you think about it the world would have been better if there was no war and germany stayed a monarch.Why did the black hand have to kill the one austrian who wanted to help them?ignorance is mans greatest flaw

[ToonandBBfan]

People wore some really silly head gear in those days!

[dividednation44]

@ToonandBBfan i find it cool looking :)

wow! germany was realy a lonely nation which had its own freedom, its own ideas its own tredetionals. it was like a one in a million in all the huge depressing european nations.

[jerryaltman]

What software did you use?

[Alexander1868]

@jerryaltman I use Adobe Photoshop CS2.

[PaulusLXXX]

¡Que gran trabajo!. Gracias por permitirnos ver estas imagenes de personajes y epocas tan lejanas, que tan solo conociamos en blanco y negro, en su color original. En verdad se agradece.

[Alexander1868]

@PaulusLXXX Bienvenido!