Well....the stab-in-the-back myth (in German: Dolchstoßlegende)....was beer-hall type chatter....which mostly formed around being an antisemitic and anti-communist conspiracy theory (lot of German veterans believed it)....coming after 1918.
In simple form....the Imperial German Army did not lose World War I on the battlefield, but was instead betrayed by certain citizens (Jews/communists).
If you were looking at public standing....especially in 1919.....there were a lot of folks talking about this. Fake-news type of BS? To some degree....yeah.
I will point this out....on the lack of 'winning'....the German Army from 1914 to 1918....burned through manpower....without much success to talk of. As the US entered the war....1917/1918...there was no winning formula or strategy to reverse the issues at hand. So this stab-in-the-back BS is the only thing to fall back upon.
If you walked into a beer-hall in Munich or Frankfurt in 1925....the odds are....within ten minutes....you'd be engaged in chatter about the war, losing, and who to blame. Even in 1932....14 years after the war.....it was probably the same way.
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