(November 10, 2015 at 4:26 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 10, 2015 at 4:12 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: The personality of Wilhelm ii had a lot to do with Germany's course from 1890-1914. Killing Wilhelm ii might well have preserved the bismarckian policies and prevented WWI. No WWI, no hitler.
No, it doesn't boil down to a single person. If you wanted to kill one single person to prevent WWI, it would be Gavrillo Princip, who never could take the shots at Franz Ferdinand and his wife, thereby preventing the incident setting the wheels in motion. But that of course doesn't say, another one wouldn't have taken his place.
The black hand will survive, and it is their avowed goal to incite a general European war in the hopes that Austria will fall and a Serbian hegemony over the southern Slavs would emerge. So the death of Príncip may alter the details of how the war between the entent and central powers will start in the bulkans within a few years of 1914, it will not Greatly lessen the possibility that a war between essentially the same entent and the same central powers will break out in the same bulkans within the same few years after the middle of 1914.
