Wade Luce’s Reviews > The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945 > Status Update

“Instead of interpreting [the loss of WWI] in military or economic terms, they chose to view defeat in moral terms, believing the cause lay in a domestic betrayal of Germany and God…the infamous “stab in the back” legend came not from a general or politician, but ima sermon preached on February 3, 1918”