The second issue of The Historian of 2016 revolves around the devastating world wars of the first half of the twentieth century.Nathan Orgill investigates how the printed media helped to confirm the image of the Kaiser William II as an erratic buffoon, while transforming the German Wilhelm II into a rather different British William II.Patricia Kollander charts the considerable contribution of German-Jewish refugees toward the Allied victory over the Nazis in the Second World War.Finally, Eric Jarvis discusses the depiction in the media of an early hero for the cause of liberty in the Cold War, the Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty; his article makes clear how much the media distorted the image of this anti-communist resister, not unlike how it changed that of the Kaiser a generation earlier.