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Dividing Point. In 1944 the Red Army confidently expected no further repetitions of World War I's East Prussian history. In 1914 the team of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, his brilliant chief of staff General Erich Ludendorff and chief of operations General Max Hoffmann had gone to the rescue of the Reich's defeated army, and made Hindenburg an immortal among Junkers. Among East Prussia's lakes Hindenburg trapped the Russians, cut them to pieces...
...with the thunder of Wagner; with the rhythmic plans of the German General Staff first to dominate Europe and then the world; with the rondo movement of German Junkers and industrialists to seize world markets. Naziism was nourished and adopted by Army men like embittered, ever-dreaming General Erich Ludendorff, industrialists like Fritz Thyssen and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, businessmen like Helmuth Wohlthat, Junkers like Franz von Papen...
...action. Perhaps the Germans were withdrawing to a line, well-prepared in their rear, stretching perhaps from the Valdai hills in the north to the vicinity of Kharkov in the Ukraine. Here they might rest through the frightening winter cold while the war went on in other countries. So Ludendorff in 1917 had withdrawn from a vast energy-consuming salient, prepared lines in his rear, come back with a climactic German effort in the spring of 1918. But at the very least this was a Russian success, for the German retreat was costly...
...founding brains of this tremendous machine, according to Riess, were Walther Nicolai, Ludendorff, Goebbels, Himmler, and above all Rudolf Hess, "the only really great adventurer of the Nazi Party." It grew out of Nicolai's conversations with Ludendorff on the nature of total action; out of Goebbels' and Himmler's intelligent respect for the methods of Lenin (the Gestapo was "a complete plagiarism of the OGPU"); and out of Hess's studies under Geopolitician Professor Karl Haushofer. Haushofer assigned his star pupil the study of Japan-a study which Hess promptly narrowed to "Japan and Espionage...
Thyssen's first contribution was indirect -about 100,000 gold marks to Ludendorff for a Hitler-Ludendorff coup against the Communist Government of Saxony. (It did not come off, but turned into the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.) In 1928 Rudolf Hess went to Thyssen and told him the Nazis were hard put to pay for the Brown House they had bought in Munich. Thyssen arranged a loan through the banks. Only a small part of it was ever paid by the Nazis; Thyssen paid the rest himself. Hermann Goring wanted to enlarge his apartment "to cut a better...