The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (also known as The Beast of Berlin and The Kaiser) was a 1918 American silent war propaganda melodrama film written by, directed by, and starring Rupert Julian. The film's supporting cast included Elmo Lincoln, Nigel De Brulier, and Lon Chaney. The germanophobic film contains a propagandist view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, the resistance of some of his own soldiers, and fanciful prediction of the nature of the war's end. The film is now considered lost. Kaiser Wilhelm
Kaiser the Habsburg dynasty. With the Unification of Germany (aside from Austria) in 1871, there was some debate about the exact title for the monarch of those German territories (such as free imperial cities, principalities, duchies, and kingdoms) that agreed to unify under the leadership of Prussia, thereby forming the new German Empire. The first Kaiser himself preferred either "Kaiser von Deutschland" ("Emperor of Germany") or "Kaiser der Deutschen" ("Emperor of the Germans"). In the end, his chancellor Bismarck's choice "Deutscher Kaiser" ("German Emperor") was adopted as it simply connoted that the new emperor, hearkening from Prussia, was a German, but