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Eighteen days later he abdicated as King and Emperor at Amerongen, the moat-defended chateau of Count Godard Bentinck, a Knight of the Prussian Order of St. John of which Wilhelm II was the head. Only because of his oath "to aid any Knight of St. John in distress," did Knight Bentinck shelter Knight Hohenzollern...
...onetime Kaiserin, Auguste Victoria, arrived on the same day, much broken down in health. As months passed, it was she, not Wilhelm, who passed sleepless nights and nerve-wracked days, lest the Allies enforce Part IV (Penalties) Article 227 of the Treaty of Versailles. Therein are inscribed the most celebrated "dead sentences" of that document: "The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign William II, of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offense against international morality and the sanctity of treaties...
Recovery. Wilhelm, seeming to have sensed this trend at its inception, has consistently ignored such "Hang the Kaiser!" propaganda as has filtered to Doom, whence he removed from Amerogen (June 1920). He has said dozens of times to visitors, however: "Max von Baden ist hinter mir gegangen!" ("Max of Baden has tricked me behind my back!") Apparently he still dreams that Germany would not have turned from him, had not Prince Max announced* his abdication...
...everyone knows the onetime Kaiserin died at Doorn (April 11, 1921). Reputedly Wilhelm II refers to his present consort, Princess Hermine, as "Her Majesty the Empress...
...tortuous mind of Wilhelm of Doorn, still half obsessed by its illusion of Heavenly guidance, is nowhere better revealed than in his Memoirs (Harpers, 1922.) He wrote...