 According to the British historian Simon Schama the Batavian Republic has been controversially treated by historians . After the end of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II there were some who saw a historical parallel between the Dutch National Socialist Movement ( NSB ) and the Patriot revolutionaries , while they pictured William V in the heroic role of Queen Wilhelmina and her government @-@ in @-@ exile . Dutch historian Pieter Geyl opposed such comparisons in his Patriotten en NSBers : een historische parallel ( 1946 ) . 
