not quite

[kindkit]

Tumblr: Good source for interesting historical photos, terrible source for correct information about them. This is not Kaiser Wilhelm II, any more than these dashing young women are actually Rosa Luxemburg, Simone de Beauvoir, and Emma Goldman. (The mod of the latter Tumblr says that they assumed the image title was just a joke; maybe it is, but most of the people gleefully reposting the image don't seem to have caught on.)

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[dingsi]

And I just went through the entire list of notes on that "Kaiser Wilhelm" entry and not a single one picked up the error.

[kindkit]

You'd think a Tumblr that is specifically about the First World War might have more viewers than just me who would look at the image and think, "Wait, I'm pretty sure Wilhelm II had an enormous moustache. And also was well into his fifties during the war, whereas the man in the picture is moustacheless and young." But apparently not.