Postcard of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Kaiser Franz Joseph, in the Secessionist style. Kaiser Wilhelm is wearing the uniform and shako of the Death's Head Hussars.
Völkerkrieg (people's war)1914; In Treue FestPeople's WarFirm in Loyalty
"Shortly after 7 a.m. on 8 November, Foch's Chief of Staff, Maxime Weygand, noticed a red light moving slowly through the mist. It was all he could see of the train that was carrying the German Armistice Commission . . .On 8 November, as Prince Max tried desperately to hold the country together at the end of telegraph and telephone lines that flickered and failed like the struggles of a dying man, the Social Democrats issued their ultimatum. Unless the Kaiser and the Crown Prince went, they would walk out of the Government. That night Prince Max received word that the revolution was continuing to spread. Brunswick and Munich had already gone. The authorities in Stuttgart had handed over power to Workers' and Soldiers' Councils and Cologne was expected to fall into revolutionary hands that night. It was even rumoured that sailors were marching on Berlin."
Allied Commander-in-Chief Ferdinand Foch continued attacks along the Western Front even as the Germany requested an armistice. German Chancellor Prince Max von Baden had been saddled with the job of ending a war the German High Command had belated acknowledged was lost. Rebellious sailors, some Bolsheviks, were in control of Kiel, Lübeck, Cuxhaven, Hanover, and Hamburg.
Hundred Days: The Campaign that Ended World War I by Nick Lloyd, pp. 254–255, copyright © 2014 by Nick Lloyd, publisher: Basic Books, publication date: 2014
1918-11-08, 1918, November, Prince Max, Kaiser Wilhelm, Berlin, Kaiser Wilhelm II
