Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Guards' Parade. In the presence of the Princes August Wilhelm and Oscar and the ex-Crown Princess, a parade of the Imperial Guard in full pre-War splendor took place at Potsdam ? a town just outside Berlin, where the Kaiser had his principal palace. The occasion was the unveiling of a monument to the memory of fallen members of the Imperial Guard...
Johanniterorden. Prince K. Eitel Friedrich, second son of the Kaiser, Grand Master of the German section of the Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (Deutsche Johanniterorden), officiated at a meeting of the Order in Potsdam. Der Feld-marshall von Hindenburg, as Sword Bearer, was in attendance. The Prince, clad in a black robe and " decorated with flashing crosses," raised six members, chosen Monarchists, to knighthood in the Order by tapping them on the shoulder with a sword passed to him by the Sphinxlike Hindenburg...
Wilhelm Hohenzollern, former All-Highest of Germany, still considers himself King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany, Konig von Preussen und Deutsche Kaiser...
...students said that most of the rooms in the ex-Kaiser's Doom palace were simply furnished, but some were quite as pretentious as those in the palace at Potsdam. In the dining hall hung a motto: Willkommen wer ein guter Monarchist ist , welcome to any good monarchist...
...mine owner, General Kharin owned palaces at Petrograd and Moscow containing rare art collections of fabulous value. He never traveled by train, but always " in a cortége of luxuriously appointed automobiles." During the war he was condemned to death for espionage in Germany, but was pardoned by Kaiser Wilhelm −no mean distinction...