Wilhelm II. lives until after WW2

So, Kaiser Wilhelm II. died OTL in occupied Duch exile at the age of 82 in 1941. What if he does physically live several years longer until after WW2, to 1944/1945. He would be 85-86. What would be the consequences for the Ex-monarch ( If he stays in the castle and is not moved by the SS-guards) ? How would the Dutch public and the allies react ? Would he be held accountable ?
 
So, Kaiser Wilhelm II. died OTL in occupied Duch exile at the age of 82 in 1941. What if he does physically live several years longer until after WW2, to 1944/1945. He would be 85-86. What would be the consequences for the Ex-monarch ( If he stays in the castle and is not moved by the SS-guards) ? How would the Dutch public and the allies react ? Would he be held accountable ?
Most of the Dutch public and allies would not blame him he had been out of power for over 27 years .
And if he was held accountable he would have a good case of pushing the blame off and onto the leaders of the victorious allies and the Versailles treaty for with out that treaty Germany could not blame the allies and Jews bankers for the problems it caused in the 1920s.
 
How about if the Allies put him back on the throne? (Most implausible, given the Soviet attitude to such things, however if they were boycotting some conference and it got slipped through? Not over East Germany at first, but imagine a Hohenzollern on the throne when the Berlin Wall fell. How it would affect post-War politics.
 
Most of the Dutch public and allies would not blame him he had been out of power for over 27 years .
And if he was held accountable he would have a good case of pushing the blame off and onto the leaders of the victorious allies and the Versailles treaty for with out that treaty Germany could not blame the allies and Jews bankers for the problems it caused in the 1920s.
The dutch certainly were angry that he send a telegram of gratulations to Hitler after the succes of Fall Gelb. They thought it bad repayment for the political asylum that was offered. An asylum that they really had to defend to the allies. After the second worldwar they seized his assets in the Netherlands. His residence Kasteel Doorn is now a museum of the state.
So if he had lived on, he wouldn't have been welcome in the Netherlands anymore. The first allied troops in Doorn, if he had remained there, were the British. So they decide.
 
He could argue that he only congratulated hitler because he feared that if he did not seem to support him he would be dealt with. hitler was very anti-monarchist.
 
he would cry because his beloved nation is now 4 zones and Prussia itself is no longer in German but communists too
 
That is a bit far fetched, and it would be really naive to believe that.
He would be in his late 80s by the end of the war. I’m basing my theory that they would feel sympathy for him based on the sentencing of Pétain The leader of the collaboration French government who was spared the death penalty because of his advanced age.
I honestly do not think he would be tried for the share reason that his age would make any prison sentence completely in relevant you could die at any point.
 
I suspect most of his Dutch assets would still be seized and he'd likely be given a quiet but suitably appointed setup somewhere out of the way while they wait for him to die. As much as the Dutch might hate him he had little to do with the war other than saying stupid things, he's a former emperor, and he is a very old man. They'll stick him in a chateau for a year and wait for him to kick the bucket. That way they don't actually have to make any real decisions about his fate.
 
He would be in his late 80s by the end of the war. I’m basing my theory that they would feel sympathy for him based on the sentencing of Pétain The leader of the collaboration French government who was spared the death penalty because of his advanced age.
I honestly do not think he would be tried for the share reason that his age would make any prison sentence completely in relevant you could die at any point.
Petain was spared for internal political reasons. It was a whitewash operation. Nothing is protecting Wilhelm II, except the fact that he was completely irrelevant at that time. The british soldiers, will probably take him prisoner, and guard him till his fate is decided by the british government. If the british decide to do nothing with him, the dutch government will definitely ask him to leave the country. He will have to search for another country of exile. Sweden perhaps or somewhere in South America.
 

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Petain was spared for internal political reasons.

Pétain was speared because the was already 90 years old and it is generally not considered humane to shoot nonagenarians, particularly when it isn't clear that they can remember exactly why you are shooting them; Laval was executed by firing squad, and Amiral Darlan had already been killed by an assassin who may have had some connection to British Intelligence; there was no whitewash, not at that level anyway.
 
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Accountable for what? The worst thing you can hold against him in WW2 is that he was a german nationalist.

And who should he answer for WWI charges - those were both stupid and pretty irrelevant by 1945.
 
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Pétain was speared because the was already 90 years old and it is generally not considered humane to shoot nonagenarians, particularly when it isn't clear that they can remember exactly why you are shooting them; Laval was executed by firing squad, and Amiral Darlan had already been killed by an assassin who may have had some connection to British Intelligence; there was no whitewash, not at that level anyway.
De Gaulle had very big problems with executing him because Petain was in 1940 the more legitime leader of France than him. He was appointed to that position by the previous government, while de Gaulle was a rebel without much support. Almost all french members of parlement went to Vichy. La gloire de France be blemished by executing the former legitime ruler, it would also confront the nation with the fact that in 1940 it choose the wrong path. That was something France wasn't ready to do in 1945. There were also still many former Vichy supporters. The story had to be clear: Yes, Petain had made a grave error with the truce, but what followed was more to blame to his unpopulair advisors, Laval, than to the hero of Verdun himself. That is what i mean by political whitewash.
 
Accountable for what? The worst thing you can hold against him in WW2 that he was a german nationalist.

And who should he answer for WWI charges - that were both stupid and pretty irrelevant by 1945.
That i think would indeed be the attitude of unocupied Great Britain in 1945, but not that of former occupied Netherlands in 1945.
 
That i think would indeed be the attitude of unocupied Great Britain in 1945, but not that of former occupied Netherlands in 1945.
Yes, the Dutch wouldn' t have any sympathy for him after the suffering under the German occupation. Even in the 1960es there had been a public outrage for the crown princess marrying a German (who had been also a Wehrmacht soldier as a young man). In addition, the crown prince of Hohenzollern had been a devout National Socialist.
 
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