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The German public thought that they were winning the war. The German military told everyone that victory was coming soon. They had already defeated Russia in 1917 and had shifting their forces from the east to the west. They had recent military success in France until the arrival of American troops began to turn the tide. The German government requested an armistice just as the German Army's front in France began to collapse in late 1918. Also Germany's allies (Austria-Hungary & Turkey) were now being defeated in their campaigns in the Balkans & in the Middle East. The top Germany Army leadership clearly saw their impending military defeat and requested an end (not surrender) to the war, before Allied troops could reach the German borders. The sudden and drastic turn of events was kept from the German public, and most of the German military. The myth would grow that Germany was betrayed by Jewish bankers and not defeated on the battlefield. This would greatly influence Adolf Hitler & Germany to begin the next world war & the Holocaust. In contrast, Germany would be completely defeated in the next war in a way & manner that would be very obvious to all Germans.

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