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The Online Books Page
Online Books by
German Emperor William II
(William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941)
Also found under: Wilhelm II, Kaiser
Online books about this author are available, as is a Wikipedia article.
- William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941: Ereignisse und Gestalten aus den Jahren 1878-1918 (in German; Leipzig and Berlin: K.F. Koehler, 1922)
- William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941: The German Emperor, As Shown in His Public Utterances (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1915), ed. by Christian Gauss
- William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941: The German Emperor's Speeches: Being a Selection From the Speeches, Edicts, Letters and Telegrams of the Emperor William II (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1904), trans. by Louis Elkind (multiple formats at archive.org)
- William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941, contrib.: Germany's War Mania: The Teutonic Point of View As Officially Stated by Her Leaders, A Collection of Speeches and Writings (London: A. W. Shaw Co., 1914), also contrib. by Crown Prince of Germany William, Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Bernhard Bülow, Friedrich von Bernhardi, Colmar Goltz, Carl von Clausewitz, Heinrich von Treitschke, and Hans Delbrück (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- William II, German Emperor, 1859-1
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Hun speech
1900 speech by German Emperor Wilhelm II
Not to be confused with Hunnic language.
The Hun speech was delivered by German emperor Wilhelm II on 27 July 1900 in Bremerhaven, on the occasion of the farewell of parts of the German East Asian Expeditionary Corps (Ostasiatisches Expeditionskorps). The expeditionary corps were sent to Imperial China to quell the Boxer Rebellion.
The speech gained worldwide attention due to its incendiary content. For a long time, it was considered to be the source of the epithet "Huns" for Germans, which was used by the British to much effect in World War I.
Historical background
[edit]The "Hun speech" took place against the historical backdrop of the Boxer Rebellion, an anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising in Qing China between 1899 and 1901. A flashpoint of the rebellion was reached when telegraphic communications between the international legations in Beijing and the outside world were disrupted in May 1900. After the disruption, open hostilities began between foreign troops and the Boxers, who later were supported by regular Chinese forces.
On 20 June 1900, the German envoy to China, Clemens von Ketteler, was shot dead by a regular Chinese soldier while on his way to the Zongli Yamen, a Chinese