Interesting, since the emperor was eighty-nine years by then! But Wilhelm I, just like
his grandson Wilhelm II, was extremely fond of the
military - and Friedrich Wilhelm, who came between the two Wilhelms, and who might have steered the empire in a different direction, ruled for only three months in 1888 because he was in the last stage of
cancer already. If this
had not occurred, then maybe WWI would never have happened? We'll never know.
Rupert
