Do you believe it was a good idea for the Kaiser to have abdicated his throne in 1918?

Question

If he had been allowed to stay, it might have mitigated a lot of the harshness and provided a sense of unity in the German people lacking after WWI.

Answer 1

It's questionable whether he would have been ALLOWED to stay. Had there not been agreement on his leaving the throne, It seems likely that a full scale invasion of Germany would have occurred, with millions more dead. There was a movement after the Armistice to turn Germany into a purely pastoral economy, basically medieval, rather than allow them to continue as an industrial power.That probably would have prevented the rise of Hitler as well, although a second war might yet have happened. Remember the Japanese?

Answer 2

I agree. World War One was when Western civilization put a gun to its head and pulled the trigger. The longer it went on, the worse its consequences.

So yeah, the Kaiser should have stayed in power.

And no, the USA should not have gotten involved. The 20th century would have turned out far better and infinitely more prosperous if the USA remained neutral, avoided war, and enabled and armistice to be settled by the end of 1916.

Result: no Hitler, no Stalin, no Lenin, no Mao, no Tojo, no Pol Pot. Geez. And throw in no Osama bin Laden too.

What a friggin moron Wilson was. A tyrannical megalomaniac whose memory should be scorned for all eternity.

Answer 3

true true and we would have not had to fight themin ww2