re: Should the Entente have invaded Germany at end of WWI?

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What is this "backstab" theory? They Germany got fricked by the Treaty of Versailles? They absolutely did get fricked by that treaty.

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No, the backstab story is that the German military was not defeated, at least not defeated such that Germany should have capitulated and allowed the Allied powers to dictate terms to Germany as they did in Paris in June of 1919.

The backstab story has many facets, the most significant of which is that the socialist and Marxist (and Jewish) elements in German politics undermined Germany's nationalist government in order to come to power. They forced the Kaiser to abdicate and deliberately induced strikes and defeatism on the homefront, undermining morale and the efforts of soldiers at the front.

The belief is that Germany could have resisted the Allies to secure an armistice on much more even terms but for dishonorable and self-serving political cliques behind the lines.

To the OP:


How would the backstab theory have no basis for belief if the Entente rejected Germany's request for an Armistice and battled all the way into Berlin? And then occupied the entire country of Germany instead of just the Rhineland and other western German provinces?