Its core claim was that Imperial Germany never lost World War I. Defeat, its proponents said, was declared but not warranted. It was a conspiracy, a con, a capitulation — a grave betrayal that forever stained the nation.
Sadly, the lessons from previous propaganda agendas AND/OR “political playbooks” (or just simple grift) is lost on “true loyalists (believers)”
They cringe, recoil, and scream it’s an exaggeration to pull out historical lessons YET hold to greater stretches of the imagination based on less “evidence” than is required for a simple civil claim.