Martin Antonenko
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The "Stabbing Legend" - A Lie Comes Into The World ...
On November 18, 1919, the "Committee of Inquiry into Questions of Guilt" set up by the National Assembly of the Weimar Republic met with the task of clearing up the reason (or reasons) for the German defeat in the First World War.
The former chief of theOberste Heeresleitung (OHL), Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg, is invited as a witness on this day. The next picture shows him arriving in front of the Reichstag ...:
During his interrogation, Hindenburg makes the following claim:
“During this time (in 1918. Note M. R.) a systematic disintegration of the navy and army began as a continuation of similar phenomena in peacetime. The good troops, who kept themselves free from the revolutionary attrition, suffered badly from the behavior of their revolutionary comrades in breach of duty; they had to bear the whole burden of the fight.
The intentions of the leadership could no longer be carried out. So our operations had to fail, there had to be a breakdown; the revolution was only the keystone. An English general rightly said: "The German army has been stabbed from behind." The good core of the army is not to blame. Where the guilt lies is clearly proven. "
With that she is officially in the world, the so-called "Stab In The Back Legend", according to which the German army remained "undefeated in the field" during the war, but was "stabbed from behind" by left and unpatriotic journeymen and Jews at home.
The later Reich President Hindenburg deliberately withheld the facts that he and his "Generalquartiermeister" (and actual "head" of the OHL) Erich Ludendorff ...
... at that time ruled with quasi dictatorial powers, suppressed any opposition, had deliberately lied to the government and the Reichstag several times about the true situation and it was they themselves who had ultimately urged the Reich government on September 29, 1918 to negotiate the armistice Accepting US President Wilson after the 1918 summer offensive failed and Austria-Hungary asked for an armistice.
Or as the historian Wilhelm Deist wrote:
“A 'covert military strike' paralyzed ever larger parts of the army. “The troops are no longer attacking, despite orders,” reported Colonel von Lenz Chief of Staff of the 6th Army in mid-April. [...] Refusal to war had become a mass movement. In total, probably a million soldiers evaded the army in the last months of the war. […] It is a legend that a 'stab in the back' of the army led to the military collapse of the empire. The German army did not remain, as its leadership pretended, 'undefeated in the field' - in the end it was little more than an officer corps without a troop. "
Yet:
The so-called "Stab In The Back Legend", perpetuated in innumerable articles, books, pamphlets and caricatures after Hindenburg's appearance, was one of the vehicles on which the anti-republic circles finally paved their way to power.
Sometimes it was the communists ...
... sometimes the social democrats (here Philipp Scheidemann, who proclaimed the republic, followed by Matthias Erzberger, who had signed the armistice for Germany) ...
... the longer the lie lived on but more and more often "the Jews" ...:
Now that the lie is now evident, it remains to be clarified who the "British general" supposed to have been who allegedly uttered the "Stab In The Back Lie" for the first time.
There are two possible options:
Ludendorff ...
... claims in his memoirs (more of a justification) that during an alleged table conversation with him, General Neill Malcolm ...
... in July 1919, to whom he explained the reasons for the German defeat, said: "You mean that you were stabbed in the back?"
According to an article in the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" from that period, another general, namely Sir Frederick Maurice ...
... should have said:
"As for the German army, the general view can be summed up in the word: It was stabbed from behind by the civilian population."
The newspaper relied on alleged statements made by the general to the British "Times", which, however, turned out to be fictitious.
Both British generals vigorously denied, until their death, that they had ever uttered anything like this or anything like it ...
The "Stab In The Back Legend" remains what it always was:
A lie consciously put into the world by Hindenburg and Ludendorff in order to divert attention from their own serious fault!
On November 18, 1919, the "Committee of Inquiry into Questions of Guilt" set up by the National Assembly of the Weimar Republic met with the task of clearing up the reason (or reasons) for the German defeat in the First World War.
The former chief of theOberste Heeresleitung (OHL), Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg, is invited as a witness on this day. The next picture shows him arriving in front of the Reichstag ...:
During his interrogation, Hindenburg makes the following claim:
“During this time (in 1918. Note M. R.) a systematic disintegration of the navy and army began as a continuation of similar phenomena in peacetime. The good troops, who kept themselves free from the revolutionary attrition, suffered badly from the behavior of their revolutionary comrades in breach of duty; they had to bear the whole burden of the fight.
The intentions of the leadership could no longer be carried out. So our operations had to fail, there had to be a breakdown; the revolution was only the keystone. An English general rightly said: "The German army has been stabbed from behind." The good core of the army is not to blame. Where the guilt lies is clearly proven. "
With that she is officially in the world, the so-called "Stab In The Back Legend", according to which the German army remained "undefeated in the field" during the war, but was "stabbed from behind" by left and unpatriotic journeymen and Jews at home.
The later Reich President Hindenburg deliberately withheld the facts that he and his "Generalquartiermeister" (and actual "head" of the OHL) Erich Ludendorff ...
... at that time ruled with quasi dictatorial powers, suppressed any opposition, had deliberately lied to the government and the Reichstag several times about the true situation and it was they themselves who had ultimately urged the Reich government on September 29, 1918 to negotiate the armistice Accepting US President Wilson after the 1918 summer offensive failed and Austria-Hungary asked for an armistice.
Or as the historian Wilhelm Deist wrote:
“A 'covert military strike' paralyzed ever larger parts of the army. “The troops are no longer attacking, despite orders,” reported Colonel von Lenz Chief of Staff of the 6th Army in mid-April. [...] Refusal to war had become a mass movement. In total, probably a million soldiers evaded the army in the last months of the war. […] It is a legend that a 'stab in the back' of the army led to the military collapse of the empire. The German army did not remain, as its leadership pretended, 'undefeated in the field' - in the end it was little more than an officer corps without a troop. "
Yet:
The so-called "Stab In The Back Legend", perpetuated in innumerable articles, books, pamphlets and caricatures after Hindenburg's appearance, was one of the vehicles on which the anti-republic circles finally paved their way to power.
Sometimes it was the communists ...
... sometimes the social democrats (here Philipp Scheidemann, who proclaimed the republic, followed by Matthias Erzberger, who had signed the armistice for Germany) ...
... the longer the lie lived on but more and more often "the Jews" ...:
Now that the lie is now evident, it remains to be clarified who the "British general" supposed to have been who allegedly uttered the "Stab In The Back Lie" for the first time.
There are two possible options:
Ludendorff ...
... claims in his memoirs (more of a justification) that during an alleged table conversation with him, General Neill Malcolm ...
... in July 1919, to whom he explained the reasons for the German defeat, said: "You mean that you were stabbed in the back?"
According to an article in the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" from that period, another general, namely Sir Frederick Maurice ...
... should have said:
"As for the German army, the general view can be summed up in the word: It was stabbed from behind by the civilian population."
The newspaper relied on alleged statements made by the general to the British "Times", which, however, turned out to be fictitious.
Both British generals vigorously denied, until their death, that they had ever uttered anything like this or anything like it ...
The "Stab In The Back Legend" remains what it always was:
A lie consciously put into the world by Hindenburg and Ludendorff in order to divert attention from their own serious fault!
