Erich Ludendorff
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff was a Prussian-born German general and politician. He achieved fame during World War I (1914–1918) for his central role in the German victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914. After his appointment as First Quartermaster General of the Great General Staff in 1916, Ludendorff oversaw virtually all decisions regarding Germany's strategy and war effort until the country's defeat in 1918.
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Background
- Born in
- Kruszewnia
- Educated at
- Royal Prussian Main Cadet Institute
- Awards
- 🏆 honorary citizen of Düsseldorf🏆 Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of Liberty🏆 Pour le Mérite🏆 Grand Cross of the Iron Cross
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Trending topics shown first"The fifth act of the great drama in Flanders opened on the 22nd October. Enormous masses of ammunition, such as the human mind had never imagined before the war, were hurled upon the bodies of men who…"
"By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign capital, and deprived of all self-respect. In…"
"I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring victory."
"There is but one hope, and this hope is embodied in the national groups which desire our recovery."
"The un-Germanness in and about us...lies primarily in a lack of racial sense ... in international, pacifistic and defeatistic thinking and, finally, in the considerable advancement of the Jewish peopl…"
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1865
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Birth1937
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