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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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The historian Margaret L. Anderson notes that after the war, Ludendorff wanted Germany to go to war against all of Europe, and that he became a pagan worshipper of the Nordic god Wotan (Odin); he detested not only Judaism, but also Christianity, which he regarded as a weakening force.
Ludendorff staked everything on a single card, the stubborn pursuit of a “victorious peace” that was to secure German territorial gains in east and west. In 1917 he approved the unrestricted submarine warfare against the British that led to the entry of the United States into the war
When war broke out in 1914, Ludendorff was made quartermaster general to Von Bulow's Second Army but when the Russians threatened to overrun the German Eighth Army in East Prussia, Ludendorff...
Mar 31, 2015 · When it failed, he realised that the war could not be won by Germany, especially as the military might of America was starting to make a major impact. With Hindenburg, Ludendorff transferred power back to the Reichstag in September 1918, and called for a peace settlement.
Oct 29, 2009 · In January 1917, Ludendorff’s support for resuming unrestricted submarine warfare by the German Navy, which included targeting merchant and passenger ships from both enemy and neutral countries,...
Ludendorff was pivotal in the creation and diffusion of the fictitious “Stab-in-the-Back” myth, which blamed Jews, liberals, communists, democrats, and war profiteers for the defeat of Germany in World War I.
Ludendorff privately conceded that Germany could no longer win a war of attrition, yet he was not ready to give up the German gains in the west and east and was one of the main obstacles to the German government's attempts to reach a settlement with the Western Allies.
