Word: ludendorffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 So Ludendorff in 1917 had withdrawn from a vast energy-consuming salient, prepared lines in his rear, come back with a climactic German effort in the spring of 1918.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...
...Turkish Front, was wounded, and, as a convalescent, fell in love with a Syrian Arab girl. He took her back to the mountains of Bavaria; but her lungs were not fit, and she died. Borg became a Mohammedan, studied Orientology, and eventually was persuaded by General Erich Ludendorff to undertake military intrigues in the Middle East. He disguised his name by spelling his signature, A. Borg, backwards and adding a euphonious...
Unlike the Ludendorff-Haig-Pershing-Joffre practice of letting brass hats with the aid of technicians work things out at desks far behind the lines and then turn execution over to subordinates, the Wavell usage is to train civil-servant-like underlings to do the paper work, while the generals, viewing the field in person, make decisions on the spot and virtually in action...