Editing Stab-in-the-back myth (section)

===World War II===
[[File:Jože Beranek - V usodnem trenutku nož v hrbet.jpeg|thumb|1944 poster from [[World War II in the Slovene Lands|German-ruled Slovenia]]: the legend reads "''A knife in the back at the fatal moment!''". It depicts [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]] [[Winston Churchill]] stabbing Europa in the back while Europa fights the [[Red Army]]; a stereotyped Jew watches on with glee.]]
The Allied policy of [[unconditional surrender]] was devised in 1943 in part to avoid a repetition of the stab-in-the-back myth. According to historian [[John Wheeler-Bennett]], speaking from the British perspective,<blockquote>It was necessary for the Nazi régime and/or the German Generals to surrender unconditionally in order to bring home to the German people that they had lost the War by themselves; so that their defeat should not be attributed to a "stab in the back".<ref name="JWB1954">{{cite book|last=Wheeler-Bennett|first=John W.|title=The Nemesis of Power: The German Army in Politics, 1918–1945|url=https://archive.org/details/nemesisofpowerge0000whee |url-access=registration|year=1954|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|page=[https://archive.org/details/nemesisofpowerge0000whee/page/559 559]}}</ref></blockquote>