John Drawbaugh

“This would eventually become the Dolchstosslegende, the ‘stab in the back’ myth, that would help lay the groundwork for the seizure of power by Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists, who vowed to avenge the defeat of 1918 and bury for ever the memory of the ‘November criminals’. The claim that the German Army had not been defeated in 1918 was readily grasped by those who had been raised on the invincibility of Prussian arms”
― Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918