Post by The ChiefFeatures in a new movie,
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/movies/the-exception-review.html
What is so desperately needed is a movie about the beginning of
the Kaiser's reign. It would be truly fascinating, as indicated at
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.talk.royalty/kaiser$20wages$20ludwig%7Csort:relevance/alt.talk.royalty/KxYMlTMH9HM/FMb7KbQ9twAJ
The following scene would be especially riveting.
"He was soon to have his first opportunity of acting upon his
humanitarian principles. Over a hundred thousand miners in the Ruhr
came out on strike for higher wages. In the moment when Bismarck was
laying before the Cabinet some strong emergency measures, there
appeared, suddenly and unannounced, the Emperor in Hussar uniform and
blustering mood proclaiming: 'The directors and shareholders must give
in; the men are my subjects for whom I am responsible. Yesterday I
warned the Chairman of the Committees in the Rhineland, telling them
that if the industry doe not at once grant an increase in wages, I
shall withdraw my troops. Then, if the owners and directors have their
villas burnt down and their gardens trampled on, they will sing a
little smarter!'"