GERMAN GENERAL ERICH LUDENDORFF

 

During World War I, General Erich Ludendorff Chief of Army Staff and his superior commander of the German Eighth Army on the Eastern Front against Russia, Paul von Hindenburg controlled German war efforts for the duration of the conflict. His greatest victories included the Battle of Liège and the Battle of Tannenberg.

As the war progressed and German defeat neared, Ludendorff resigned his position in October 1918, a month before the country formally capitulated. Later in the war he became a prominent nationalist leader and helped propagate the 'stab-in-the-back myth' of how the war ended.

Though he was a nationalist leader and took part in the Beer Hall Putsch, he came to despise Adolf Hitler after he seized power in 1933. The Beer Hall Putsch, or Munich Putsch, was a failed coup attempt by Nazy Party leader Hitler to overthrow the government on 8th and 9th November 1923 during the Weimar Republic. 

Later Hindenburg became the President of Germany. He appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933. Ludendorff wrote a letter to Hindenburg the same day stating, "I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery. Future generations will damn you in your grave for what you have done."

Erich Ludendorff was born on 9 April 1865 in Kruszewnia, Prussia. He died from liver cancer on 20 December 1937 aged 72.  

The statement of Erich Ludendorff became true. Hitler burnt the Reich. Threw the blame on the communists. Imprisoned and hanged an innocent young communist. Killed 60 lakh Jews. Became dictator. Caused World War II.