Psychiatry, Wilhelm II and the Question of German War Guilt The William Bynum Prize Essay 2016 - Reprint - 9:40 AM 5/26/2019
Michael_Novakhov shared this story from Medical History. Psychiatry, Wilhelm II and the Question of German War Guilt The William Bynum Prize Essay 2016 Saturday May 25 th , 2019 at 6:38 PM Medical History 1 Share 1 Introduction In the morning hours of 10 November 1918, the day after the proclamation of the German republic, Wilhelm II crossed the border in his imperial court train, leaving Germany for his exile in the Netherlands. He never returned, but neither did he leave the minds of his people. A few months later, the socialite, diplomat and ‘red count’ Harry Kessler (1868–1937) noted in his diary: ‘This evening, [the diplomat Conrad Gisbert] Romberg came to dine with me in the Union club. We discussed his assignment to the Foreign Office and my idea for a league of nations. Later, [the composer Max von] Schillings joined us and spoke in his clownishly genial way about the Kaiser, about Roosevelt, etc. He most entertainingly characterised