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In the last line a doctor addresses the monarch as "All-Highest", a supposed title of the German Emperor: it is therefore Kaiser Wilhelm, who had been reported (incorrectly) to be suffering from the throat cancer which had killed his father, Kaiser Frederick. Depersonalised throughout the poem by being referred to as "this", the Kaiser dies ...
With this allegorical Wilhelm II wanted to call on European Christendom to fight together against the Yellow Peril or godless Buddhism. Kaiser Wilhelm presented this painting to the Russian Tsar with the request to keep the influences from the East under control (the imminent danger of a Chinese onslaught mobilised by Japan).
"Please put out that light, James." [109] — Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States and Medal of Honor recipient (6 January 1919), to family servant James E. Amos "Goodbye, until Heaven!" [110] ("Adeus, até ao Céu!") — Saint Francisco Marto, Portuguese Marian mysticist (4 April 1919), to his cousin Lúcia "I must get back to my ...
The poem is in two sections: the first is a praise of creation in nine lines of alliterative verse. This is followed by a prayer in prose: Grimm (1812) and Massmann (1824) made attempts at the reconstruction of alliterating verses in the second part, but following Wilhelm Wackernagel (1827:9), the second part is now mostly thought to be intended as prose with occasional alliteration.
Wilhelm refuses, having decided that he is reconciled to the loss of his throne. As the Gestapo closes in on Mieke, Brandt devises an escape plan. Wilhelm, Mieke, and Brandt escape in a van as the Kaiser pretends to have a heart attack. In the process, Mieke almost takes a suicide pill. Brandt saves her life and capture by killing Dietrich.
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The plaque has a quote from Heinrich Heine's play Almansor (written 1821–1822). "Where they burn books, in the end they will also burn human beings" (Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen) about burning of Quran in Granada that was expected to be followed by burning humans (Muslims then Jewish) in 1500s.
Kaiser Wilhelm in the lyrics originally referred to William I who reigned until 1888. His son, Frederick III, who reigned for only 99 days, was succeeded by Wilhelm II. One of the jokes at the time was that the song's title is changed to "Heil Dir im Sonderzug" ("Hail to Thee in Thy Royal Train"), owing to Wilhelm II's frequent travels.