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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.
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.
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,
After the war, Ludendorff briefly went into exile in Sweden before emerging to claim that he had been deprived of victory by sinister forces operating behind the scenes.
Ludendorff soon joined Hitler's National Socialist (or Nazi) Party, got elected to parliament, and campaigned for president in 1925. He was easily defeated by his former comrade—the man he had accused of betraying him and the nation—Paul von Hindenburg.
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.
In 1918, after his offensive on the Western Front failed, he demanded an armistice, but then he insisted the war continue when he realized the severity of the Armistice conditions. Political leaders opposed him, and he resigned his post.
