Dutch ownership of German capital ships after World War I

What if the Netherlands acquired four Bayern-class battleships and four Ersatz Yorck-class battlecruisers from Germany in 1917-18?

If the transfer could be made to stick, the Dutch would become a treaty capital-ship power and the resulting higher ratios could transform interwar fleets, carriers, shipyards, and World War II rearmament.

The panel treats physical delivery before the Armistice as doubtful, but explores the consequences if Dutch ownership were somehow secured. Eight Dutch capital ships would force the Netherlands into the Washington treaty arithmetic, raise permitted fleets elsewhere, and likely support separate European battleship and East Indies battlecruiser squadrons. The larger treaty totals could preserve more British, French, Italian, American, and Japanese shipbuilding capacity, allow additional carriers and capital ships, and leave Germany further behind by the 1930s. This is a detailed counterfactual about how one transfer could alter treaty ratios, carrier allowances, industrial survival, and rearmament before World War II.