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After the war, Ludendorff became a prominent nationalist leader and a promoter of the stab-in-the-back myth, which posited that Germany's defeat and the settlement reached at Versailles were the result of a treasonous conspiracy by Marxists, Freemasons and Jews.
After Russia's withdrawal from the war in 1917, Ludendorff played a key role in the resulting Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. In March 1918, Ludendorff launched a huge, but unsuccessful,...
Erich Ludendorff was a Prussian general who was mainly responsible for Germany’s military policy and strategy in the latter years of World War I. After the war he became a leader of reactionary political movements, for a while joining the Nazi Party and subsequently taking an independent,
The vast occupied military empire over which Hindenburg and Ludendorff exercised almost unlimited power was significant for two reasons. First, it was, in many ways the realization of the idea of Lebensraum that Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party would seek to accomplish during World War II.
The German general Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (1865-1937), a brilliant strategist and successful field commander, directed Germany's total war effort during the last 2 years of World War I. He later promoted the rise of Hitler.
Though World War I is often characterized as a conflict lacking warfighting ingenuity and innovation, German General Erich Ludendorff presents an interesting dichotomy of master tactician but failed strategist.
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After his political career began to wane, Ludendorff separated himself from Hitler and the Nazi Party. Despite his prior involvement, he opposed the policies of the state and criticised Hitler's leadership.
