Stab In The Back

Stab In The Back
   In the early 1920s, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, accused the Jews of Germany of inflicting a “stab in the back” upon the nation that resulted in Germany’s defeat in World War I and the country’s subsequent economic and political ills. The use of the phrase “stab in the back” was, at one time, erroneously associated with Friedrich Ebert, the first president of the Weimar Republic. In extending greetings to troops returning from the war, Ebert told the assembled soldiers that they had never been defeated in the field. The phrase “stab in the back” was added by others to his remarks, although he never included the phrase to the troops. The term was used, however, by General Paul von Hindenburg when he was summoned by the Reichstag to explain the causes of Germany’s defeat in the war, although he did not associate the phrase with the Jews. Hitler employed the phrase for political propaganda purposes, and he used it exclusively in association with the Jews.

Historical dictionary of the Holocaust. . 2014.

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