RSN: FOCUS: Jochen Bittner | 1918 Germany Has a Warning for America

 

 

01 December 20

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30 November 20 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WITH TRUMP OUTVOTED THE DONATIONS HAVE DISAPPEARED - With the election finished the donations we normally count on seem to have vanished. Safe to sleep again, perhaps? What ever the case, when the funding isn’t there the process breaks down quickly and it will, you can be sure. We’ll do what we must to RSN strong. Help. Please. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Jochen Bittner | 1918 Germany Has a Warning for America Jochen Bittner, The New York Times Bittner writes: "Donald Trump's 'Stop the Steal' campaign recalls one of the most disastrous political lies of the 20th century." t may well be that Germans have a special inclination to panic at specters from the past, and I admit that this alarmism annoys me at times.  One hundred years ago, amid the implosions of Imperial Germany, powerful conservatives who led the country into war refused to accept that they had lost. Their denial gave birth to arguably the most potent and disastrous political lie of the 20th century — the Dolchstosslegende, or stab-in-the-back myth. Its core claim was that Imperial Germany never lost World War I. Defeat, its proponents said, was declared but not warranted. It was a conspiracy, a con, a capitulation — a grave betrayal that forever stained the nation. That the claim was palpably false didn’t matter. Among a sizable number of Germans, it stirred resentment, humiliation and anger. And the one figure who knew best how to exploit their frustration was Adolf Hitler. READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation