Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates
November 9, 1918
With revolution in the streets of Berlin and his army refusing to fight on, the German Kaiser abdicated and fled to the Netherlands in the dining car of a private train. He would live out his life in a Dutch country house trimming his beard and chopping wood. The Hohenzollern dynasty, five centuries old, was done.
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