<P> Bombastic and impetuous , he sometimes made tactless pronouncements on sensitive topics without consulting his ministers , behaviors culminating in a disastrous Daily Telegraph interview in 1908 that cost him most of his influence . His leading generals , Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff , dictated policy during the First World War with little regard for the civilian government . An ineffective war - time leader , he lost the support of the army , abdicated in November 1918 , and fled to exile in the Netherlands . </P>
<P> Bombastic and impetuous , he sometimes made tactless pronouncements on sensitive topics without consulting his ministers , behaviors culminating in a disastrous Daily Telegraph interview in 1908 that cost him most of his influence . His leading generals , Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff , dictated policy during the First World War with little regard for the civilian government . An ineffective war - time leader , he lost the support of the army , abdicated in November 1918 , and fled to exile in the Netherlands . </P>
what happened to the german emperor in november 1918
what happened to the german emperor in november 1918
he lost the support of the army , abdicated in November 1918 , and fled to exile in the Netherlands
he lost the support of the army , abdicated in November 1918 , and fled to exile in the Netherlands