Talk:Stab-in-the-back myth/citations
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- Antisemitism of the German army
Regarding content about "instinctual antisemitism of the German Army” deleted in this edit consider restoring it or something like it and adding these citations:
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https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/193/the-stab-in-the-back-legend/ quote= "Hindenburg’s quotation refers to the Stab-in-the-back myth. According to this conspiracy theory, the German army had not been defeated on the battlefield, but because social democratic politicians had signed the truce in order to take control. In reality, the army command had made mistakes and the German army was in no shape to keep on fighting. But generals like Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff spread the story to avoid having to admit the mistakes they had made. Right-wing extremist, nationalist, and antisemitic groups believed that this ‘stab in the back’ was the work of an international Jewish conspiracy."
Two:
https://search.worldcat.org/title/957133548 Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914–1938 Author:Brian E. Crim (Author) Print Book, English, 2016 Publisher: Lexington Books
Three:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/606113/pdf
Showalter, Dennis E. Review of Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914–1938, by Brian E. Crim. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 29 no. 3, 2015, p. 495-497. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/606113. ———
- Did not lose on the battlefield
Regarding deleted content about how the "German army did not lose on the battlefield", consider adding these:
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https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/stab-in-the-back_myth Boris Barth, 2014 Stab-in-the-back Myth International Encyclopedia of the First World War quote="Roots of the Dolchstoßlegende : When the German Empire collapsed in autumn 1918, at once theories of conspiracy appeared to explain the sudden breakdown. One theory was that the German Army had not been beaten on the battlefield, but was stabbed in the back by the mutinies in the Navy and by the outbreak of the revolution in Berlin."
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https://scholar.smu.edu/jour/vol6/iss2/3 Dixon, Madeline (2021) "The Weimar Republic and the War of Memory," SMU Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 6: Iss. 2, Article 3. page 9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25172/jour.6.2.3 Available at: https://scholar.smu.edu/jour/vol6/iss2/3 quote= The notice gave the myth credibility by placing it in the mouth of General Maurice, and more importantly, granted, nationalists a scapegoat for the failure of their 'invincible' German army."
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https://openhistorysociety.org/members-articles/why-did-germany-lose-the-great-war-by-david-white/ quote= "Yet when the end came, it was swift and complete. Although the German High Command claimed it was undefeated on the battlefield and had been stabbed in the back by treacherous politicians, they were fully aware that total collapse was just weeks if not days away when an armistice was agreed."
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https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/how-and-why/why/nationalism-and-the-first-world-war/ quote="This led to the Stab-in-the-Back Myth. The Stab-in-the-Back Myth was the belief that the German Army did not lose the First World War on the battlefield, but was instead betrayed by communists , socialists and Jews on the home front."
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HUNT, RICHARD M. “MYTHS, GUILT, AND SHAME IN PRE-NAZI GERMANY.” The Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 34, no. 3, 1958, pp. 355–71. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26442614.