1W.D. Ehrhart, quoted in Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History (New York: Viking Press, 1983), pp. 472—473.

2Minimum figures taken from M. Laurence Baskir and William A. Strauss, Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam Generation (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), frontispiece; see also the discussion in David S. Surrey, Choice of Conscience: Vietnam Era Military and Draft Resisters in Canada (New York: Praeger, 1982), p. 38.

3Surrey, op.cit, p. 39.

4U.S. v. Seeger, 380 U.S. 163; Welsh v. U.S., 398 U.S. 333.

5Col. Robert D. Heinl, Armed Forces Journal, 1971, quoted in Surrey, op.cit., p. 53.

6For further discussion, see Surrey op.cit., p. 60.

7Discharge figure from Baskir and Strauss op.cit.; "working it out" is discussed in David Cortright, Soldiers in Revolt: The American Military Today (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday/Anchor, 1974), p.

8Michael Kidron and Dan Smith, The War Atlas (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983), map 38.

9Adolph Hitler and others added an even more horrifying twist to the theory. For Hitler, the "stab in the back" came not only from the political leadership, but from the Jews.