The dangerous Nazi legend behind Trump’s ruthless grab for power
Trump has created an American version of Adolf Hitler’s ‘Dolchstosslegende,’ also known as the ‘stabbed-in-the-back’ lie
From his failed Beer Hall putsch in Munich in 1923 to the Third Reich’s downfall 22 years later, Adolf Hitler spewed venom against what he called the “November Criminals” — Marxists and Jews who he claimed were responsible for Imperial Germany’s defeat in November 1918.Hitler’s assertion, based on a conspiracy theory concocted by Germany’s losing generals and conservative politicians, was ultimately embraced by much of the German populace. In German, this myth is called the Dolchstosslegende, or stabbed-in-the-back legend.
Donald Trump has created an American version of the Dolchstosslegende, propagating a myth that the nation is being led to ruination by Joe Biden and the Democrats, prosecutors who go after Trump, judges who rule against him, non-MAGA news media, practitioners of “wokeism,” and elite universities, among others. Trump sometimes lumps together those who oppose him as Communists. Red baiting was good enough for Joe McCarthy, so why not for Donald Trump? All of this is utter nonsense, of course, but this American stabbed-in-the-back lie is at the core of Trump’s assaults on democracy.

'American version of Adolf Hitler': Major Jewish newspaper makes stark Trump comparison
A historically Jewish newspaper compared President Donald Trump's tactics to a scheme used by Germany's Adolf Hitler before World War II.In an op-ed for Forward this week, author Terrence Petty likened Trump's demonization of his self-declared enemies to Hitler's attempt to blame Jewish people...


The dangerous Nazi legend behind Trump's ruthless grab for power
Trump has created an American version of Adolf Hitler's "Dolchstosslegende," also known as the "stabbed-in-the-back" lie.
