When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933, they made the conspiracy theory an integral part of their official history of the 1920s, portraying the Weimar Republic as the work of the "November criminals" who had "stabbed the nation in the back" in order to seize power. Nazi propaganda depicted Weimar Germany as "a morass of corruption, degeneracy, national humiliation, ruthless persecution of the honest ´national opposition´—fourteen years of rule by Jews, Marxists, and ´cultural Bolsheviks´, who had at last been swept away by the National Socialist movement under Hitler and the victory of the ´national revolution´ of 1933".
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