WEBVTT 00:00:00.650 --> 00:00:03.089 In early November 1918, after receiving word 00:00:03.089 --> 00:00:04.849 that Armistice Day would be declared on the 11th 00:00:04.849 --> 00:00:06.990 of the 11th, his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated 00:00:06.990 --> 00:00:09.710 to him. My second predecessor Wilhelm II had 00:00:09.710 --> 00:00:11.429 decided splitting his dual monarchy roll -up 00:00:11.429 --> 00:00:13.289 into two separate monarchies via abdication was 00:00:13.289 --> 00:00:15.970 critical to move forward after World War I. It 00:00:15.970 --> 00:00:17.649 was authorized with official documents sent to 00:00:17.649 --> 00:00:19.649 be verified, based on what turned out to be blatantly 00:00:19.649 --> 00:00:21.629 misleading medical advice on Adolf's health status. 00:00:22.230 --> 00:00:24.410 Kaiser Wilhelm II had been told Adolf had progressed 00:00:24.410 --> 00:00:26.170 well in his recovery, as if he was walking on 00:00:26.170 --> 00:00:28.420 his own again and getting out and about. Kaiser 00:00:28.420 --> 00:00:30.219 Wilhelm II stipulated that there must be a wait 00:00:30.219 --> 00:00:31.879 of six months minimum before he was coronated 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:33.820 to allow people time after the end of World War 00:00:33.820 --> 00:00:36.439 I. When new Prince Imperial Adolf was informed 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:38.200 he had been abdicated to, he was still staying 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:39.719 in a post -traumatic stress disorder recovery 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:42.299 facility. He said what did that man just say 00:00:42.299 --> 00:00:44.899 about Wilhelm II to nobody. He was informed an 00:00:44.899 --> 00:00:46.280 official meeting had been arranged to hand him 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:48.159 over to the former Kaiser security team for an 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:49.799 induction and constitutional monarchy succession 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:52.399 procedure session. Like an education session. 00:00:53.129 --> 00:00:55.289 Adolf was given a time, place and date and told 00:00:55.289 --> 00:00:56.950 Wilhelm II would be there along with the Royal 00:00:56.950 --> 00:01:00.289 Security Police. Prince Imperial Adolf was terrified 00:01:00.289 --> 00:01:02.990 and unable to walk fluently. He took a then modern 00:01:02.990 --> 00:01:05.329 1918 camera and full tripod with him intending 00:01:05.329 --> 00:01:07.129 to hide behind it taking photographs and tell 00:01:07.129 --> 00:01:08.930 Wilhelm II he was taking up photography again. 00:01:09.670 --> 00:01:11.189 Attending the official meeting was like being 00:01:11.189 --> 00:01:13.629 assaulted with information. He stood behind the 00:01:13.629 --> 00:01:15.370 camera taking photographs overpowered by the 00:01:15.370 --> 00:01:17.030 smell of the freshly laundered uniforms, boot 00:01:17.030 --> 00:01:19.049 polish, leather oil, aftershave and other smells. 00:01:19.629 --> 00:01:21.450 He didn't hear a word of the first few minutes 00:01:21.450 --> 00:01:23.890 but took photographs. Whilst he was trying not 00:01:23.890 --> 00:01:25.890 to panic, the smell of a small German Astor flower 00:01:25.890 --> 00:01:27.829 in a vase wafted into his nostrils and he turned 00:01:27.829 --> 00:01:30.250 to look at it. He thought how can one tiny flower 00:01:30.250 --> 00:01:31.829 like that give off such a strong beautiful smell 00:01:31.829 --> 00:01:35.510 and coined the term flower power. He was sat 00:01:35.510 --> 00:01:37.269 down with Wilhelm II and the security police 00:01:37.269 --> 00:01:39.069 which gradually deteriorated in a four -hour 00:01:39.069 --> 00:01:41.349 meeting. Whenever he lost track and phased out, 00:01:41.430 --> 00:01:42.969 they politely waited and went through it all 00:01:42.969 --> 00:01:44.709 again trying to get the information through to 00:01:44.709 --> 00:01:47.069 him. He started sweating and hunched in his chair 00:01:47.069 --> 00:01:49.760 and complained he felt ill and was thirsty. Wilhelm 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:51.379 II started crying and grabbed him by one hand 00:01:51.379 --> 00:01:54.219 rubbing his thumb, asking if he was okay. They 00:01:54.219 --> 00:01:55.980 called a doctor and he was immediately readmitted 00:01:55.980 --> 00:01:58.280 to hospital. They found he had been wounded with 00:01:58.280 --> 00:01:59.640 bullets that had been dipped in an agent that 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:01.299 caused them to corrode inside the victim if they 00:02:01.299 --> 00:02:02.939 lodged in the target's body and re -examined 00:02:02.939 --> 00:02:05.420 him. They found a shrapnel or fragments in his 00:02:05.420 --> 00:02:07.120 hip and leg and immediately operated to remove 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:09.340 them as soon as they could. He was treated for 00:02:09.340 --> 00:02:11.139 any possible poisoning from the fragments, like 00:02:11.139 --> 00:02:13.460 heavy metal poisoning. He was also diagnosed 00:02:13.460 --> 00:02:15.979 with a minor brain infection. After the surgery 00:02:15.979 --> 00:02:17.840 and the treatment including antibiotics, he was 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:20.229 much better. It took months more time in hospital. 00:02:20.750 --> 00:02:22.629 By then he was being quietly talked about like 00:02:22.629 --> 00:02:24.370 a decorated former soldier which was a correct 00:02:24.370 --> 00:02:26.930 description. He was visited sporadically by former 00:02:26.930 --> 00:02:28.990 Kaiser Prince Wilhelm II still the final emperor 00:02:28.990 --> 00:02:30.830 of Prussian who was relieved he was more responsive. 00:02:31.810 --> 00:02:33.830 He very slowly worked his way back into a daily 00:02:33.830 --> 00:02:36.430 life in recovery doing physiotherapy. He was 00:02:36.430 --> 00:02:38.150 unable to walk fluently freely for the rest of 00:02:38.150 --> 00:02:40.789 his life. After World War I he had to twist one 00:02:40.789 --> 00:02:42.710 leg outwards and stick one hip out slightly in 00:02:42.710 --> 00:02:44.409 order to be able to stand for any longer than 00:02:44.409 --> 00:02:46.909 a short period. He usually had to lean on something 00:02:46.909 --> 00:02:48.770 if he couldn't stay upright, like a tree if outdoors. 00:02:49.530 --> 00:02:51.490 Adolf regularly wore heat padding and other medically 00:02:51.490 --> 00:02:54.169 prescribed items over his wounds. He had to do 00:02:54.169 --> 00:02:55.789 daily physiotherapy to keep his wounded side 00:02:55.789 --> 00:02:57.750 flexible and was often in pain when walking around. 00:02:58.349 --> 00:03:00.449 He often described it as a randomly disjointed 00:03:00.449 --> 00:03:02.169 crawling of the skin feeling, probably caused 00:03:02.169 --> 00:03:04.800 by nerve damage. below is kaiser adolf after 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:06.659 conscription during service on the western front 00:03:06.659 --> 00:03:08.919 in 1925 explaining to the german public what 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:10.520 happened to him when he was held illegally in 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:12.479 landsbo prison still seriously distressed after 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:14.819 his ww1 near fatal wounding than in my hometown 00:03:14.819 --> 00:03:17.379 of yarragan in his 90s then me compared to the 00:03:17.379 --> 00:03:18.939 colleague then crown prince adolf was wounded 00:03:18.939 --> 00:03:21.900 with during world war one he was labeled a royal 00:03:21.900 --> 00:03:24.000 poser by onlookers unaware of his mobility difficulties 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.599 and physiotherapy they then extended that when 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:28.960 he was photographed standing up claiming he was 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:31.460 posing like a spoiled brat He still phased out 00:03:31.460 --> 00:03:33.020 regularly and had to stop and gather himself. 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:35.900 Wilhelm too had set a waiting period of six months 00:03:35.900 --> 00:03:37.560 minimum before a coronation after succession 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:40.199 procedure was started anyway. His friends were 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:41.780 happy to wait until he was well enough in his 00:03:41.780 --> 00:03:44.300 own opinion. Others thought they had hit the 00:03:44.300 --> 00:03:46.599 jackpot. They thought if he regularly phased 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:48.240 out they could do whatever they wanted and have 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:49.939 him authorize any document they liked provided 00:03:49.939 --> 00:03:52.159 they phased him out first then asked him to authorize 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:54.439 them. They started trying to work out ways to 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:56.120 make him have lapses, picturing themselves waving 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:57.680 their hand in front of his face to see if he 00:03:57.680 --> 00:03:59.360 blinked, and walking away with official documents 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:02.099 he wouldn't have remembered he authorized. Things 00:04:02.099 --> 00:04:04.699 deteriorated quickly after that. Whenever Prince 00:04:04.699 --> 00:04:06.439 Imperial Adolf looked like he was relaxed and 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:08.080 feeling better, they did something to him, or 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:09.819 near him, to see if it would make him phase out 00:04:09.819 --> 00:04:12.319 to a traumatized blank unresponsive stare. He 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:13.860 was also followed around by morons pretending 00:04:13.860 --> 00:04:15.400 he would do whatever they said if they tried 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:16.899 to remind him that they may do to him what was 00:04:16.899 --> 00:04:18.819 done to my Romanov and Habsburg ancestors during 00:04:18.819 --> 00:04:20.879 World War I if he didn't play along and do what 00:04:20.879 --> 00:04:23.310 they suggested. The real organized crime Brett 00:04:23.310 --> 00:04:25.829 Screech included. Like morons making too many 00:04:25.829 --> 00:04:28.389 leaps of probably. They extended the scenario 00:04:28.389 --> 00:04:29.990 to claiming he would have to pretend to publicly 00:04:29.990 --> 00:04:32.110 date a female and be forced to make lewd conversation 00:04:32.110 --> 00:04:34.009 about sexual contact with her at official events 00:04:34.009 --> 00:04:35.769 and public outings in order to get access to 00:04:35.769 --> 00:04:38.050 his royal assets. Then suggested that perhaps 00:04:38.050 --> 00:04:39.649 a female relative would be more fun for them 00:04:39.649 --> 00:04:41.990 so they could pretend it was incest. The latter 00:04:41.990 --> 00:04:43.569 probably a bizarre reference to hideous fiction 00:04:43.569 --> 00:04:45.689 about Roman emperors as he was a legitimate descendant 00:04:45.689 --> 00:04:48.519 of Julius Caesar. They regularly tried to take 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:50.339 him to places to remind him of their past victims, 00:04:50.459 --> 00:04:52.199 including his parents Prince Alois and Princess 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:54.839 Clara, and his older brother Prince Edmund. Also 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:57.620 my Romanov and Habsburg ancestors. Remember that 00:04:57.620 --> 00:04:59.740 my great -grandmother Tsarina Alexandra Feodorova 00:04:59.740 --> 00:05:01.339 the Romanov married Nicholas Hohenzollern too. 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:04.500 They tried reminiscent places, shapes and smells, 00:05:04.579 --> 00:05:06.300 and waited to see if he went blank into a stare. 00:05:06.860 --> 00:05:09.180 They tried the sound of firing guns, actual gunshots, 00:05:09.379 --> 00:05:11.300 small explosions, blood -colored fluid, barbed 00:05:11.300 --> 00:05:13.160 wire, with combat smells, to see if he would 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:15.589 phase out. bombs hidden in briefcases all the 00:05:15.589 --> 00:05:18.089 incidents people are vaguely familiar with like 00:05:18.089 --> 00:05:19.910 he was in a science experiment to see if he forgot 00:05:19.910 --> 00:05:21.509 who they were and just sat and stared afterwards 00:05:21.509 --> 00:05:23.889 like he was traumatically hypnotized and they 00:05:23.889 --> 00:05:25.529 were trying to work out the visual audio cue 00:05:25.529 --> 00:05:28.389 he took it all in deciding to wait until he felt 00:05:28.389 --> 00:05:30.810 he was well enough prince imperial adolf was 00:05:30.810 --> 00:05:32.550 lent large sums of money by his friends including 00:05:32.550 --> 00:05:34.410 his homosexual ones who were jewish in a lot 00:05:34.410 --> 00:05:36.970 of cases they quietly stated he could pay them 00:05:36.970 --> 00:05:38.850 all back when he got access to his assets now 00:05:38.850 --> 00:05:41.459 my assets They lent him very large sums of money 00:05:41.459 --> 00:05:43.160 he didn't have a use for at the time, he had 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:44.779 his post -combat recovery rights with the German 00:05:44.779 --> 00:05:48.120 military as well. In 1922 he decided to take 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:49.720 a break from Germany as there were more and more 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:51.379 people pretending to tell him what he had to 00:05:51.379 --> 00:05:53.899 pretend to get access to his assets. All of them 00:05:53.899 --> 00:05:55.579 pretending to be unaware of his recovery after 00:05:55.579 --> 00:05:57.459 World War I whilst trying to traumatize him to 00:05:57.459 --> 00:05:59.139 make him phase out to a blank stare based on 00:05:59.139 --> 00:06:00.839 rumors of his mental state when abdicated to. 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:03.319 He went on holiday to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, 00:06:03.459 --> 00:06:05.279 taking multiple film and still cameras with him. 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:07.439 He toured the city filming where he could get 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:09.779 permission, staying in hotels mainly. He was 00:06:09.779 --> 00:06:11.420 recognized everywhere he went like he was the 00:06:11.420 --> 00:06:13.000 confirmed next monarch of Germany, with some 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:15.079 adults aware he had recovery issues after World 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:17.779 War I and was still doing physiotherapy. He did 00:06:17.779 --> 00:06:19.600 not officially notify them of his holiday beforehand, 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:21.759 so it was always with a little surprise when 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:23.319 they realized who he was until Wood got around. 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:26.480 There were also those stalking him daily. And 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:27.839 then others who would follow him around with 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:29.480 a briefcase pretending if he did whatever they 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:31.199 said, they would have succession procedure documents 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:34.300 for him right then and there in Amsterdam. He 00:06:34.300 --> 00:06:36.279 also spent some quality time with other gay men. 00:06:36.910 --> 00:06:38.870 including one particular man who was a security 00:06:38.870 --> 00:06:41.069 guard by profession who can clearly be seen repeatedly 00:06:41.069 --> 00:06:43.670 in the films adolf recorded on his holiday they 00:06:43.670 --> 00:06:45.689 are available to view in edited format on youtube 00:06:45.689 --> 00:06:48.670 just search the trip through amsterdam in 1922 00:06:48.670 --> 00:06:50.470 and you can view the footage at all filmed and 00:06:50.470 --> 00:06:53.129 edited himself or what is left of it it is very 00:06:53.129 --> 00:06:55.790 revealing prince imperial adolf became more and 00:06:55.790 --> 00:06:57.449 more relaxed and communicative on the trip more 00:06:57.449 --> 00:06:59.129 out of full awareness of his situation than anything 00:06:59.129 --> 00:07:02.209 else when he returned to germany he started talking 00:07:02.209 --> 00:07:04.329 succession procedure and coronation much better 00:07:04.329 --> 00:07:06.660 than when he left He drew his imperial lineage 00:07:06.660 --> 00:07:08.740 chart on some basic graph paper and it spawned 00:07:08.740 --> 00:07:10.519 an idea for a two -sided monogram that spelt, 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:12.259 Hitler, one way and Hohenzollern, the other, 00:07:12.339 --> 00:07:14.620 made from Germanic English lettering. He added 00:07:14.620 --> 00:07:16.199 a red background and a white circle to match 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:18.220 his uncle Kaiser Frederick IV's flag and traditional 00:07:18.220 --> 00:07:20.259 Hohenzollern royal colors since constitutionalization 00:07:20.259 --> 00:07:23.660 in 1871 and before. The flag he is most associated 00:07:23.660 --> 00:07:26.079 with was invented. He immediately went to his 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:28.019 cousin and predecessor former Kaiser Prince Wilhelm 00:07:28.019 --> 00:07:29.800 II and asked if he could help to have the monogram 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:32.100 and flag officially authorized, patented, copyrighted 00:07:32.100 --> 00:07:34.569 and manufactured. Wilhelm II immediately put 00:07:34.569 --> 00:07:36.209 him through an intensive part -time constitutional 00:07:36.209 --> 00:07:38.069 monarchy rules and documents course, where he 00:07:38.069 --> 00:07:40.389 had Adolf's day with him. It took weeks, they 00:07:40.389 --> 00:07:42.089 ate meals together, laughed a lot, and they were 00:07:42.089 --> 00:07:43.610 often a little drunk by the end of each day. 00:07:44.189 --> 00:07:46.329 Former Kaiser Prince Wilhelm II, the final monarch 00:07:46.329 --> 00:07:47.949 of Prussian, was very relieved he was feeling 00:07:47.949 --> 00:07:49.709 better, and started talking to him as if he was 00:07:49.709 --> 00:07:51.250 about to become monarch of a now separate monarchy. 00:07:51.790 --> 00:07:54.949 The necessary legal forms were sent off. The 00:07:54.949 --> 00:07:56.610 patent and copyright requests went through an 00:07:56.610 --> 00:07:58.290 office associated with their evil cousin Albert 00:07:58.290 --> 00:07:59.850 Einstein, who had been rumored to have worked 00:07:59.850 --> 00:08:02.620 at a patent office as a clerk. When the official 00:08:02.620 --> 00:08:04.300 patent and restricted copyright to the monogram 00:08:04.300 --> 00:08:06.300 and flag were registered exclusively to my royal 00:08:06.300 --> 00:08:08.079 family within all its constitutional monarchy 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:10.779 rules, Adolf ordered samples. A few flags and 00:08:10.779 --> 00:08:12.920 some stationery. When they arrived he showed 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:14.519 them to Wilhelm II, who thought they were good.