Word: ludendorffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Well poised Germans no longer take seriously that keen but brittle strategist, General Erich Ludendorff. Long of since he has Hindenburg"- if ceased to he be ever "the was - brains but not until last week did he dare to flout openly the great Feldmarschall who is President of the Republic...
Before a super-nationalist rally at Berlin, General Ludendorff warmed up by declaring that the Jews, the Jesuits and the Freemasons "robbed Germany of certain victory during the World War." Then, as his poise snapped, he shouted: "Even today the supernational [Allied] powers rule Germany through S. Parker Gilbert [Agent General for Reparations] and Mgr. Eugenio Pacelli [Papal Nuncio to Germany] and the Republic's head makes no use of his authority...
...Some of them were dressed in field grey; others were resplendent in plumed helmets and gold-braided tunics of imperial days. Gathered there, too, were many of the highest Reich authorities, from Chancellor William Marx and several of his cabinet to Marshal von Mackensen, Generals von Francois and von Ludendorff...
...away in Doorn the ex-Kaiser, too, bethought him of the Battle of Tannenberg and recalled that if Hindenberg and Ludendorff were its heroes, it was only because he had sent them there. With magnificent effrontery he wired the President of the German Republic...
...Instructed by me to free East Prussia from the enemy, your and General von Ludendorff's superior leadership, supported by the devoted cooperation of your subordinates, who were most of them trained in the school of my old chief of the general staff, Count Schlieffen, succeeded in gaining a splendid victory with our incomparable and brave troops...