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- In March 1918, Ludendorff launched a huge, but unsuccessful, offensive on the Western Front in attempt to defeat the Allies before the arrival of American troops. In the autumn, faced with the imminent collapse of Germany's allies, he refused to accept the armistice terms demanded by the Allies and insisted the war continue.
www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/ludendorff_erich.shtmlHistory - Historic Figures: Erich Ludendorff (1865 - 1937) - BBC
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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 Germany’s Second Army and later became chief of staff to General Paul...
In March 1918, Ludendorff launched a huge, but unsuccessful, offensive on the Western Front in attempt to defeat the Allies before the arrival of American troops.
During the rest of 1914, commanding an Army Group, Hindenburg and Ludendorff staved off the projected invasion of German Silesia by dexterously moving their outnumbered forces into Russian Poland, fighting the battle of the Vistula River, which ended with a brilliantly executed withdrawal during which they destroyed the Polish railway lines and ...
Ludendorff met the revolution that broke out in November 1918 with complete resignation and went into exile in Sweden for several months. While, according to Prussian custom, general staff officers accepted joint responsibility for all decisions made, they had to preserve strict anonymity.
Ludendorff eventually decided to return to Germany and became strongly involved in right wing politics - joining the Kapp Putsch March in 1920 and the Munich Putsch of 1923, the latter of which gave credibility to the relatively unknown Nazi Party.
Also known as the Kaiserschlacht, the Ludendorff Offensive was a series of remarkable German attacks along the Western Front towards the end of World War I in 1918. To understand the significance of this event, we'll delve deep into its overview and the crucial strategies deployed.
These attacks were the last major assaults on British and French lines by the German forces during the First World War. Ludendorrf, the German commander, realised that the arrival of thousands of American soldiers in the coming months could make the German war effort impossible to maintain.
