Question

Who were known as "November criminals"in history of Germany?

Answer 1

The nickname "November Criminals" was given to the German politicians who negotiated and signed the armistice which ended World War One in November of 1918. The November Criminals were named so by German political opponents who thought the German army had enough strength to continue and that surrendering was a betrayal or crime, that the German army had not actually lost on the battlefront.

These political opponents were chiefly right wingers, and the idea that the November Criminals had ‘stabbed Germany in the back’ by engineering surrender was partly created by the German military itself, who manveured the situation so the civilians would be blamed for conceding a war generals also felt couldn’t be won, but which they didn’t wish to admit.

Many of the November Criminals were a part of the early resistance members who eventually spearheaded the German Revolution of 1918 - 1919, several of which went on to serve as heads of the Weimar Republic which would serve as the basis for the post-war German reconstruction in the years to come

Answer 2

The nickname "November Criminals" was given to the German politicians who negotiated and signed the armistice which ended World War One in November of 1918. The November Criminals were named so by German political opponents who thought the German army had enough strength to continue and that surrendering was a betrayal or crime, that the German army had not actually lost on the battlefront.

These political opponents were chiefly right wingers, and the idea that the November Criminals had ‘stabbed Germany in the back’ by engineering surrender was partly created by the German military itself, who manveured the situation so the civilians would be blamed for conceding a war generals also felt couldn’t be won, but which they didn’t wish to admit.

Many of the November Criminals were a part of the early resistance members who eventually spearheaded the German Revolution of 1918 - 1919, several of which went on to serve as heads of the Weimar Republic which would serve as the basis for the post-war German reconstruction in the years to come.