To Hell with the Kaiser! Sin" to name a few. Lawrence Grant, who spent his lengthy career playing odious villains, appeared in the dual role of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his look-alike, German actor Robert Graubel. Terrified of being assassinated, the Kaiser hires Graubel to impersonate him at various political functions. In the film, the Kaiser achieves military success through an infernal pact with Satan. Once this is established, the film concentrates on the seemingly endless tally of misdeeds perpetrated by the Kaiser during his quarter-century reign over Germany. His "partner in crime" is the Crown Prince (Earl Schenck), who thinks nothing of casually raping
Kaiser did not imply that this new emperor had dominion over all German territories, especially since the "Austrian Kaiser" would have been offended as Austria, inhabited by Germans, was still considered part of the German lands. There were only three Kaisers of the (second) German Empire. All of them belonged to the Hohenzollern dynasty, which, as kings of Prussia, had been de facto leaders of lesser Germany (Germany excluding Austria). In English the (untranslated) word "Kaiser" is mainly associated with the emperors of the unified German Empire (1871–1918). The Kaisers of the Austrian Empire (1804–1918) were: The Kaisers of the German