W/I: Western Allies Bring Back the Kaiser (1945)

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Kaiser Bill had been dead for 4 years at this point but what if his son and heir Friedrich Wilhelm had been brought back as sort of a Hirohito figure for Germany after the fall of Berlin?

What PoDs could make this happen?

And

Would this positively or negatively effect Germany?
 
If the allies (presumably excluding the USSR) wanted, for some reason, to restore the German monarchy, Friedrich Wilhelm would have been absolutely the wrong candidate. He was so unacceptable that even in 1918, when people were urging Wilhelm II to abdicate, they expected to pass the crown over Friedrich Wilhelm to his son, under the regency of a different prince (Eitel, IIRC). In 1945, after FW had flirted with the Nazis (mostly, but not entirely, because he saw them as a vehicle through which to restore the crown), his chances would have been even lower.

Hirohito was necessary in Japan to provide and legitimise transition. That wasn't necessary in Germany, which had already experienced democratic republican government in the 1920s.
 
Not going to happen. There were still plenty of people alive who remembered WWI, and thought that the Kaiser was essentially a precursor to Hitler. Plus, one of the goals was to end the "Prussian militarism" in German culture, and reinstating a monarchy would have done the opposite of that.
 
Impossible. Friedrich Wilhelm was sympathetic to the Nazi movement, even more so than his father. Also, Hirohito was retained as a figurehead in Japan after WW2 because this was very much desired by many in Japan and the Allies (the US, basically) knew it would give them needed traction during the occupation.

Germany, on the other hand had been Kaiserless since 1918 and there was no great sentiment among Germans for the restoration of the monarchy. Also, as noted, the Hohenzollerns were associated with anti-democratic and militaristic Prussian values that the Allies wanted to stamp out in the new Germany. Also, to get the four allied powers to agree on a restoration of a figurehead monarch (even if there was a liberal staunch anti-Nazi among the bunch) might take an act of God.
 
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