 Hitler felt that such a funeral would demonstrate to the Germans the direct descent of the Third Reich from the old German Empire.However, Wilhelm's wishes never to return to Germany until the restoration of the monarchy were respected, and the Nazi occupation authorities granted him a small military funeral, with a few hundred people present.The mourners included August von Mackensen, fully dressed in his old imperial Life Hussars uniform, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, General Curt Haase and "Reichskommissar" for the Netherlands Arthur Seyss-Inquart, along with a few other military advisers.