Erich Ludendorff

right wing politicians and military leaders in the Weimar Republic were betraying their own government. Also known as stab-in-the-back-myth. “The Germans did lose the war- in fact, it was the military leaders Generals Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff in October 1918 who convinced the civilian government that it was necessary for peace” (BERGEN 27). While looking for an explanation for the surrender and defeat the stab-in-the-back…

June 28th 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed at Versailles Palace. After months of negotiating since November 1918, there would finally be of a peace settlement between the participating countries of World War One. The post war views from the politicians often known as the ‘The Big Three’ (Lloyd George, Wilson, and Clemenceau) varied drastically on how Germany should be punished. French Prime minister Georges Clemenceau on the one hand stated that the war was the ‘greatest crime against…