Editing Wilhelm II (section)

==Death==
[[File:Mausoleumwhilhelm.JPG|thumb|Wilhelm's tomb at Huis Doorn]]

Wilhelm died of a [[pulmonary embolism]] in Doorn, Netherlands, on 4 June 1941, at the age of 82, just weeks before the [[Axis invasion of the Soviet Union]]. Despite his personal resentment and animosity toward the monarchy, Hitler wanted to bring the Kaiser's body back to Berlin for a state funeral, as Hitler felt that such a funeral, with himself acting in the role of heir apparent to the throne, would be useful to exploit for propaganda.{{Sfn | Sweetman | 1973 | pp = 654–655}} However, Wilhelm's orders that his body was not to return to Germany unless the monarchy was first restored were then revealed and were grudgingly respected. The Nazi occupation authorities arranged for a small military funeral, with a few hundred people present. The mourners included Field Marshal [[August von Mackensen]], fully dressed in his old Imperial Hussars uniform, former World War I [[Nachrichten-Abteilung|Office of Naval Intelligence]] [[field agent]] Admiral [[Wilhelm Canaris]], Colonel General [[Curt Haase]], World War I [[flying ace]] turned ''[[Wehrmachtbefehlshaber]]'' for the Netherlands General [[Friedrich Christiansen]], and ''[[Reichskommissar]]'' for the Netherlands [[Arthur Seyss-Inquart]], along with a few other [[military adviser]]s. However, Kaiser Wilhelm's insistence that the [[swastika]] and Nazi Party regalia not be displayed at his funeral was ignored, as is seen in the photographs of the funeral taken by a Dutch photographer.{{Sfn | Macdonogh | 2001 | p = 459}}

Wilhelm was buried in a mausoleum upon the grounds of Huis Doorn, which has since become a place of pilgrimage for German monarchists, who gather there every year on the anniversary of his death to pay their homage to the last German Emperor.{{Sfn | Ruggenberg | 1998}}