Interview

Interview with Rochelle Rogers, High School Psychology teacher

Q. What effect does death have on a person in their childhood?

A. I mean, that is a question that really cannot be answered because everyone grieves differently. Of course it does have an impact on a child but they may show no signs of it.

Q. How do you think Kaiser’s Wilhelm II, childhood affected later in life?

A.  Well he was such a troubled, kid they never showed him one bit of attention. He had an arm deformity and because of that he was tortured.  People did horrible things to him. You could almost say he was abused. Even His grandma, Queen Victoria, said he was a spoiled brat.

Q. Could you consider him a narcissist?

A. Well yes, we could say he was a narcissist but he was never officially diagnosed a narcissist. Of course when you grow up in the royal family with all of that attention on yourself, you could easily get caught up with your status.

Q.  Can you link anything in Czar Nicholas’s II childhood to the person he became?

A. Well he never wanted to be leader, they always talked about how he would make a great English King, because it would have been more of a ceremony. He never wanted to rule because he saw some brutal things happen. He wasn’t smart enough to rule.  It just comes down to that he was not in touch with reality of how his people were living.