105 years ago today, on January 16, 1920 (the 26th of the lunar winter month), the Allies requested the extradition of Kaiser Wilhelm II, but the Netherlands refused.

After the defeat of Germany in World War I, the German Emperor and Queen Augustine fled to the Netherlands.

William II, the chief culprit of World War I, practiced imperialism to show Germany's growing national strength. The world policies he actively pursued were strongly militarist. He wanted to use colonial expansion to find "a place under the sun" for Germany and change Bismarck's previous Eurocentrism with Germany as the core. After Germany's defeat in World War I, the Kaiser and Queen Augustus fled to the Netherlands.