Word: ludendorffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Erich von Ludendorff and Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz declared, last week, that in the general election scheduled for this Spring they will not seek re-election as deputies of the Reichstag...
Behind this announcement loomed the fact that the reactionary parties to which Ludendorff and Tirpitz belong have dwindled vastly in prestige, of late, and may well be reduced to impotence if the forthcoming election shows a now widely prophesied shift to the left...
...seemed, last week, that Heroes Ludendorff and Tirpitz had turned their political tails just in time to avoid the odium of being seated on the definitely losing side...
Defense Minister Groener originally won fame, just after the armistice, by stepping resolutely into the post left vacant by General Erich Ludendorff, when that great neurasthenic fled in disguise to Sweden. It was Groener who ably and steadfastly assisted Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg to hustle home the huge, defeated German armies in safety and good order...
Throughout Germany these words were voluntarily suppressed, last week, by nearly all news organs-so great and beloved is Paul Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, so puny and ignored is Erich Friedrich Wilhelm von Ludendorff...