National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument The National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument ("Kaiser-Wilhelm-Nationaldenkmal") was a memorial structure in Berlin dedicated to Wilhelm I, first Emperor of a unified Germany. It stood in front of the Stadtschloss from 1897 through 1950, when both structures were demolished by the GDR government. The monument was an equestrian statue of the first German Emperor Wilhelm I, on the Spree Canal along the Eosander portal on the west side of the Berlin City Palace. The design of the memorial was directly influenced by Wilhelm I's grandson, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the neo-baroque style of the memorial is the
Der Kaiser von Kalifornien was written and directed by the Tyrolean Luis Trenker, who also starred as Johann Sutter. Trenker had previously directed "Der verlorene Sohn" (The Prodigal Son, 1934), the story of an Alpine immigrant in New York City, which is the only other film produced in Nazi Germany with scenes photographed on location in the United States. Der Kaiser von Kalifornien The Kaiser of California, better known as "The Emperor of California" (German "Der Kaiser von Kalifornien"), is a 1936 film that has the distinction of being the first western film made in Nazi Germany. Some exterior scenes were even shot on