Excerpt from The Kaiser's Memoirs: Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany 1888-1819 Bismarck himself destroyed, with heavy blows, the idol which I had set up; but my reverence for Bismarck, the great statesman, nevertheless remained unaltered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.