What to do with the Kaiser?
Stephen Sedley: Charging the Kaiser, 11 October 2018
The Trial of the Kaiser
by William A. Schabas.
Oxford, 432 pp., £24.99, October 2018,978 0 19 883385 7 Show More
by William A. Schabas.
Oxford, 432 pp., £24.99, October 2018,
“... The title of the book is of course ironic: in spite of the clamour at the end of the Great War, the Kaiser was never tried, much less hanged. As Germany prepared to capitulate, Wilhelm II of Hohenzollern with his staff and family quietly crossed into neutral Holland, from where the Dutch politely but resolutely declined to extradite or expel him ... ”
