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SUMMARY:The Stab in the Back Legend - Boris Barth
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CONTACT:Tamsin Astbury
DESCRIPTION:An open lecture with Boris Barth\, supported by the Leverhulme
  funded Conspiracy and Democracy Research Project \n\nMost historians agre
 e that the so called stab in the back legend destabilized the weak Weimar 
 democracy in Germany to a very high degree and contributed to the rise of 
 National Socialism. Obviously after WW I not only single persons\, but soc
 ial groups found evidence that in the most critical moment of the war the 
 well prepared revolution forced the Germans to surrender although further 
 military resistance still would have been possible. The paper deals with t
 he question how and why such a typical theory of conspiracy became so powe
 rful that millions of people did believe in it. Further the question will 
 be discussed why it was so difficult for the German society to accept defe
 at and to come to terms with the experiences of the Great War.\n\nThe even
 t is followed by a wine reception.\n
LOCATION:Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 9DT
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