The “Dagger-Stab-In-The-Back” was a popular legend in post-World War I Germany that attributed Germany’s military losses to sabotage by Jews and other minorities living in the country.
This Austrian caricature from 1919 illustrates a stereotypically ugly, big-nosed Jew stabbing the back of a German soldier with a dagger.
Known as the Dolchstosslegende, the legend was an important part of Adolf Hitler’s propaganda effort to blame Jews for the loss of WWI; it was used to justify Nazi Germany’s murder of Jews who were labeled as innate traders.
