Word: ludendorff
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...trade "friend," victorious Germany could make U. S. business and politics dance to its fiddling. As military foe, well fed and fortified in South America, it might play a deadlier tune. For it was of this war that Adolf Hitler's military mentor, old General von Ludendorff wrote...
...Blond, blue-eyed, smallish Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, 55, had proved himself a pitiless war lord. His soldierly qualities came to him from a line of professional fighters and from the same military academies-at Wahlstatt and Lichterfelde (oldtime Prussian West Point)-that turned out Germany's Hindenburg and Ludendorff. From the age of twelve, in school and at home in Breslau, he was shaped strictly for membership in his father's regiment, the crack Seventh Grenadiers of Liegnitz, Silesia, whose honorary chiefs were the Kaiser and the Tsar. Schoolmates recall him as a witty wisecracker, gay, with...
...past of the German people "under the perjured, perverted Frederick, miscalled 'The Great'; under the mountebank, bulky Bismarck with his treble voice, his shifty diplomacy, his forged telegrams and his lust for conquest; under the vain cripple, Hohenzollern, who was, himself, the slave of the half-crazy Ludendorff, who so loathed Christianity that he worshipped Thor and Odin." After getting his breath, Orator Duff Cooper continued fortissimo: "But never did the face of Germany assume so villainous or vile an aspect as under . . . this little gang of bloodstained, money-making murderers [the Nazis]. . . . Hitler says the whole German...
...University for a course in economics. He seldom attended lectures, took no examinations. He had heard Hitler speak. In December 1922 Hitler made him organizer of the Storm Troops. In the Munich Putsch of November 1923 Göring marched at the head of the Storm Troops, behind Ludendorff and Hitler. As the Brown Shirts advanced toward the Feldherrn-halle, rifle bullets peppered them. Fourteen were killed. Hitler fell flat, dislocated his shoulder. Göring also fell, wounded in the thigh. Old Man Ludendorff marched on alone, firing his pistol until he was captured...
...Army objects profoundly to the zebra touch and War Secretary Oliver Stanley will certainly remember that in World War I the leading roles were legitimately played by Foch, Ludendorff, Hindenburg, Haig, Pershing-whereas today no Allied general has had a chance. Socially the new War Secretary is somewhat overshadowed by his clever and beauteous wife. Lady Maureen Stanley, daughter of the Marquess of Londonderry who used to be perhaps the chief British exponent of appeasing Germany but swung violently around after the rape of Bohemia last spring...