German military deliberately lied to the people in the final phrases of the war, for example saying that English were starving and if German people would hold longer they would win. 'Stab in the back' myth was also manufactured by Ludendorff to mislead the German public. And the people eventually subscribed to this 'myth'.
Hitler and the Nazi party were the main beneficiaries, the process greatly assisted by the Hugenberg newspaper empire.
p. 208-9
In 1924, German President Friedrich Ebert (SPD) stated that WWI was a defensive war.
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