In November 1918, as the First World War ended, Hitler was recovering from a gas attack in a hospital in Pomerania, Germany. The news of the armistice came as a complete shock and he refused to accept it was true. Later (like many other Germans) he blamed the defeat on internal enemies in Germany. The German army had been ‘stabbed in the back’ by Jews and Communists. The Treaty of Versailles, signed on 28 June 1919, was a further betrayal of the German people, and Hitler never accepted its legitimacy. He criticised it in early speeches to the Nazi Party in 1919 and railed against it in his autobiographical book, Mein Kampf.
Hitler writes about the Treaty of Versailles in Mein Kampf (1924):
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