The Great War officially ended when the Versailles Treaty was signed in 1919. The de facto ending, however, was in November 1918, when Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated, and Germany agreed to an armistice (ceasefire). read more
To somehow imply that German workers worked to stop the war from its inception actually plays directly into the hands of the legend of the stab in the back and is far too close to old Nationalist interpretations of the war’s end to be allowed to stand without counterpoint. read more