The Return of the Stab-in-the-Back Myth

After World War 1, a horrific, antisemitic myth was used in Germany to justify many of the arguments that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis used to rise to power. The myth goes something like this: Germany was far too powerful to have lost a war without some sort of deep betrayal. The leaders in the government who overthrew the German Empire and signed the armistice ending WW1 were either criminals or…