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==Wagnerian allusions== [[File:Siegfrieds Tod.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|[[Hagen (legend)|Hagen]] takes aim at [[Sigurd|Siegfried]]'s back with a spear in an 1847 painting by [[Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld]] of a scene from the [[Epic poetry|epic poem]] ''[[Nibelungenlied]]'' ("Song of the Nibelungs") – which was the basis for [[Richard Wagner]]'s opera ''[[Götterdämmerung]]''. ]] To some Germans, the idea of a "stab in the back" was evocative of [[Richard Wagner]]'s 1876 opera ''[[Götterdämmerung]]'', in which [[Hagen (legend)|Hagen]] murders his enemy [[Sigurd|Siegfried]] – the [[Germanic heroic legend|hero]] of the story – with a spear in his back.<ref>{{cite book |last=Roberts |first=J. M.|authorlink=John Roberts (historian) |title=Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to the Present|year=1999|isbn=0-713-99257-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury0000robe_j2o2/page/289 289 n.12]|publisher=Allen Lane/The Penguin Press |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury0000robe_j2o2 |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>Vascik, George S. and Sadler, Mark R. eds. (2016) ''The Stab-in-the-Back Myth and the Fall of the Weimar Republic: A History in Documents and Visual Sources'' Bloomsbury Academic. [https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/the-stab-in-the-back-myth-and-the-fall-of-the-weimar-republic-a-history-in-documents-and-visual-sources/introduction p.1] {{isbn|9781474227797}}</ref> In Hindenburg's memoirs, he compared the collapse of the German Army to Siegfried's death.<ref name="dlt">{{Cite web |last=Kimmel |first=Elke |date=2021-10-06 |title=Der Hindenburgmythos und die Dolchstoßlegende |url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/100-jahre-politischer-mord-in-deutschland-der-100.html |access-date=2022-03-02 |website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur |language=de}}</ref>
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