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An act of betrayal or treachery.
An illustration from a 1919 Austrian postcard showing a caricatured Jew, Rosa Luxemburg, stabbing a German Army soldier in the back with a dagger. The capitulation of the Central Powers was blamed on communists, Bolsheviks, and the Weimar Republic, but in particular on Jews.
(idiomatic) To betray (somebody).
Friedrich Ebert contributed to the myth when he told returning veterans that "No enemy has vanquished you."
An act of betrayal or treachery.
1924 right-wing German political cartoon showing Philipp Scheidemann, the German Social Democratic politician who proclaimed the Weimar Republic and was its second chancellor, and Matthias Erzberger, an anti-war politician from the Centre Party, who ended World War I by signing the armistice with the Allied Powers, as stabbing the German Army in the back