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The stab-in-the-back myth (German: Dolchstoßlegende, pronounced [ˈdɔlçʃtoːsleˌɡɛndə] ⓘ, lit. ' dagger-stab legend ') [a] was an antisemitic and anti-communist conspiracy theory that was widely believed and promulgated in Germany after 1918.
The signing of the Paris Peace Accords on January 27, 1973. The Vietnam stab-in-the-back myth asserts that the United States' defeat during the Vietnam War was caused by various American groups, such as civilian policymakers, the media, antiwar protesters, the United States Congress, or political liberals.
This resulted in the stab-in-the-back myth, which attributed Germany's defeat not to its inability to continue fighting (even though up to a million soldiers were suffering from the 1918 flu pandemic and unfit to fight), but to the public's failure to respond to its "patriotic calling" and the supposed sabotage of the war effort, particularly ...
Among the ideas that Kimball developed was the idea of a Vietnam stab-in-the-back myth. [2] He also argued that threats to use nuclear weapons had not been effective at advancing the United States' foreign policy goals either in the Korean War, Vietnam War, or the First Taiwan Strait Crisis. [3]
Thus, the "Myth of the Stab in the Back" was born, according to which the revolutionaries stabbed the army, "undefeated on the field", in the back and only then turned the almost secure victory into a defeat. It was mainly Ludendorff who contributed to the spread of the falsification of history to conceal his own role in the defeat.
In exile, Ludendorff wrote numerous books and articles about the German military's conduct of the war while forming the foundation for the Dolchstosslegende, the "stab-in-the-back theory," for which he is considered largely responsible, [63] insisting that a domestic crisis had sparked Germany's surrender while the military situation held firm ...
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The Stab-in-the-back myth, the belief that the German Army did not lose World War I militarily, but was defeated by a treasonous "stab in the back" by civilians, in particular Jews and Socialists. Vietnam stab-in-the-back myth, a similar belief concerning the United States' loss of the Vietnam War