The Hundred Days offensive combined logistics, tanks, aircraft, and growing Allied manpower to drive the German army back rapidly. Germany began negotiating before the advance reached and visibly breached its homeland. That gap between military collapse and public experience helped the later stab-in-the-back myth take hold. By the final months, the German army was badly weakened while British Empire and American forces added mounting weight to the Allied advance. An operational defeat can be remembered differently when a war ends before occupation makes the outcome unmistakable.
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The Hundred Days left room for the stab-in-the-back myth
The final Allied offensive pushed Germany toward negotiations before Allied armies reached German territory, allowing battlefield defeat to be recast as political betrayal.