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      • In 1918, the Germans realised that they were about to lose the war; Ludendorff then resigned, and his power diminished. He spent the interwar period promoting the ‘stab-in-the-back’ myth, blaming others for his own failure to effecively manage the German Army’s supply chain.
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  2. Oct 29, 2009 · World War I and the Battle of Tannenberg. With the outbreak of WWI in 1914, Ludendoff was appointed quartermaster in chief of Germanys Second Army and later became chief of staff to General...

  3. He achieved fame during World War I for his central role in the German victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914. After his appointment as First Quartermaster General of the Army General Staff in 1916, he became the chief policymaker in a de facto military dictatorship until Germany's defeat.

  4. Erich Ludendorff (born April 9, 1865, Kruszewnia, near Poznań, Prussian Poland—died Dec. 20, 1937, Munich, Ger.) was a Prussian general who was mainly responsible for Germany’s military policy and strategy in the latter years of World War I.

  5. Erich Ludendorff © A talented military strategist, Ludendorff's early success in World War One were obscured by Germany's defeat and his pro-Nazi political activities in the...

  6. Erich Ludendorff was a German general who gained renown during the First World War, primarily for his efforts on the eastern front. He and future German President Paul von Hindenburg built a military empire in the east that lasted until the Germany’s defeat in 1918.

  7. Mar 31, 2015 · During World War One, Ludendorff was a supporter of unrestricted submarine warfare as a justifiable weapon in defeating the enemy – despite the fact that it was almost certainly going to provoke a reaction from America.

  8. Died 20 December 1937 in Munich, Germany. Erich Ludendorff was the effective commander of the German armed forces during the war. He also became a quasi-dictatorial figure, the ruthless symbol of the army’s political power.

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