Comments by "wayne antoniazzi" (@wayneantoniazzi2706) on "Capturing Nazi Germany's Holiest Room - Hitler's Prison Cell" video.

As I understand it Hitler didn't think very much of the old German and Prussian aristocracy. He blamed them for losing the war, and he wasn't far wrong in that. Still, as long as they were useful he kept them around in various civil and military positions. If I remember correctly Josef Goebbels in his diary said that post-war (assuming a German victory) the old aristocracy would be abolished and a new Nazi aristocracy would take it's place. This doesn't mean the old aristocracy would be liquidated, it only meant the old titles would have been rendered meaningless.
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@stefanschleps8758 Maybe you're right on the money part, but as a student of WW1 for 50 years I can tell you it was Germany's war to lose. The Kaiser didn't take part in any military planning and was pretty ill-served by those under him, both militarily and especially diplomatically. They might have won it if they hadn't irritated the Americans into getting involved. Anyway, what you or I think now doesn't matter, it's what Hitler thought at the time that matters.
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@stefanschleps8758 I think you misunderstood me, it's what Hitler thought at that TIME that mattered. Certainly as students of history we can discuss points of view and actually have a good time doing so, but past events are what they are and the the people involved with them were what they were and as the ancient Greeks said: "The past is the past, and even the gods can't change it."
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I don't know about Nazi key figures that visited Wilhelm, but quite a few senior German officers stopped by to pay their respects. Since the top Nazis knew Hitler wasn't a fan of Wilhelm I doubt they would have wanted to incur Hitler's wrath by visiting the old Kaiser.
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@eedwardgrey2 Right, I was thinking about 1940 after the invasion and occupation of the Netherlands. I'm not surprised Goering's visit in 1933 didn't amount to much, the old Kaiser wasn't a fan of the Nazis, to put it mildly.
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@jamesbond9011 Right, Hitler sent troops for an honor guard and parade for the Kaiser's funeral and directed Seyss-Inquart to attend, but that was strictly for political reasons, not because he admired Wilhelm. It was just to "look good."
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It was Hitler's speeches that made him, not "Mein Kampf." Trust me, it's an incredibly badly written book, absolute torture to read. I only made it half-way through and gave up!
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It was still a perfectly good prison, and the Germans have to lock up their bad guys somewhere.
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@vk2ig Correct, and just how involved the Hitler government was involved with the Bund is something historians can't seem to agree on. The Nazis didn't have anything like the Comintern, and supposedly their reaction to imitation Nazi organizations varied from admiration to amazement. "Oh my, would you look at that..." In his private diary Goebbels said they weren't interested in promoting their ideology anywhere else but in Germany.
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I caught a documentary a few years ago about some places in Germany where some swastikas slipped though the cracks. After that documentary aired I'm sure they were gotten rid of quickly.
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