Abstract
This chapter examines how the German Revolution was interpreted in the first fourteen years after it took place. It looks first at views presented by military historians, including key proponents of the ‘stab-in-the-back’ legend, which blamed the revolution for Germany’s failure to find an ‘honourable’ way out of the First World War. A second section examines divisions on the Weimar-era left over the character and meaning of the revolution, whether between or within the Social Democrat and Communist camps. Finally, the chapter looks at attempts by self-proclaimed ‘non-political’ experts in the medical profession to offer an ethnological-criminological explanation of the 1918–19 Revolution (and social-biological solutions to the ‘problem’ of revolutions more generally), and demonstrates the link between their ideas and later Nazi thinking.
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