It was David Knell, one of my colleagues. I've been stabbed in the back. Everyone stopped laughing and looked at me. What do you mean?
And the association of republicanism and parliamentarianism with defeat all fostered the belief that Germany had been stabbed in the back. Hitler exploited this resentment with great success. The fragile democratic institutions of Weimar were not able to survive the sense of defeat, the recession and Hitler's onslaught.
It is useless trying to co-operate with people who can not keep their word or have any intention of keeping it. Nationalists supported the Wilson/Callaghan governments for years, only to be stabbed in the back in the end. They were then blamed for allowing a Thatcher victory, when Labour's downfall hinged on a refusal to implement its own policies.