Editing Wilhelm II (section)

===Antisemitism===
[[File:The Emperor on board the Javus Sultan Selim (Goeben). German Emperor Wilhelm II. in conversation with Enver Pascha. October 1917 - NARA - 17391108 (restored).jpeg|thumb|upright=0.85|Kaiser Wilhelm II with [[Enver Pasha]], October 1917. Enver was one of the [[Three Pashas|main perpetrators]] of the [[Armenian genocide]].]]
Wilhelm's biographer [[Lamar Cecil]] identified Wilhelm's "curious but well-developed anti-Semitism", noting that in 1888 a friend of Wilhelm "declared that the young Kaiser's dislike of his Hebrew subjects, one rooted in a perception that they possessed an overweening influence in Germany, was so strong that it could not be overcome".

Cecil concludes:

{{blockquote|Wilhelm never changed, and throughout his life he believed that Jews were perversely responsible, largely through their prominence in the Berlin press and in leftist political movements, for encouraging opposition to his rule. For individual Jews, ranging from rich businessmen and major art collectors to purveyors of elegant goods in Berlin stores, he had considerable esteem, but he prevented Jewish citizens from having careers in the army and the diplomatic corps and frequently used abusive language against them.{{sfn|Cecil|2000|p=57}}}}

At the height of German military intervention against the [[Red Army]] during the [[Russian Civil War]] in 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm also suggested a similar campaign against the "[[Jewish Bolshevism|Jew-Bolsheviks]]" who were slaughtering the [[Baltic German nobility]] in the [[Baltic states]], citing the example of what [[Armenian genocide|Turks had done]] to the [[Ottoman Armenians]] just a few years earlier.{{Sfn|Kieser|2010}}

On 2 December 1919, Wilhelm wrote to Mackensen, denouncing the [[November Revolution of 1918]] and his own forced abdication as the "deepest, most disgusting shame ever perpetrated by a person in history, the Germans have done to themselves&nbsp;... egged on and misled by the [[German Jew|tribe of Judah]]&nbsp;... Let no German ever forget this, nor rest until these parasites have been destroyed and exterminated from German soil!"{{sfn|Röhl|1994|p=210}} Wilhelm advocated a "regular international all-worlds pogrom à la Russe" as "the best cure" and further believed that Jews were a "nuisance that humanity must get rid of some way or other. I believe the best thing would be gas!"{{sfn|Röhl|1994|p=210}}