The Stabbing and the Back Myth

When things go really wrong for you, you don't want to blame yourself. And that goes on in the First World War, which is once things start to go wrong for the Germans. They search around and they find a group of people who traditionally throughout history have been scapegoats: the Jews. At the end of the war, this is encapsulated in the concept of the stab in the back, meaning there were Jews plotting behind the lines to undermine the nobility of the frontline soldiers. It's endorsed by as big a figure as Field Marshal von Hindenburg,. He actually voices support for this in the immediate post-World War I years of saying, yes, the German army was stabbed in