On this day in 1941, the former Kaiser Wilhelm II died in the Netherlands where he remained in exhile.
A portrait of the Kaiser in what were, for him, better days.
Never reconciled or approving of the Nazis, whom he regarded as using "my army", it was none the less the case that his unyielding autocratic sensibilities and militarism more than helped bring about the disaster that was going on globally at the time of his death. For their part, the Nazis were not really reconciled to him either.
"His" Luftwaffe bombed Alexandria, Egypt on this day.
The British intercepted a Japanese coded message informing their government of the imminent German invasion of Russian soil, which we'll note, in the spirt if this thread, would be the second Russo Germanic war in about 25 years. However, due to one reason or another, it was not decoded and delivered to higher ups until after that invasion had commenced.
On this same day, British forces took Mosul in Iraq.
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