Word: ludendorffs
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...early 1920's War-Veteran Hitler plunged into local Munich politics, rose by sheer gift of gab, lung power and personal magnetism to such eminence that on the night of Nov. 8, 1923 he with General Erich Ludendorff attempted the famed "Beer Putsch." In the presence of the Military Governor of Bavaria, General von Kahr, spellbinder Hitler leaped upon a beer-greasy table and bellowed...
...commission in the Third Guard Regiment as a Leutnant. Thirteen years later diligent Leutnant von Schleicher won a place on the General Staff and a promotion as Hauptmann (Captain). At the outbreak of the War Hauptmann von Schleicher found himself one of the office staff of brilliant, erratic General Ludendorff. Promotion came slowly. It was 1918 before Hauptmann von Schleicher won his majority. In the bloody days of 1919 German authorities suddenly discovered the usefulness of quiet, unassuming Major von Schleicher. When the remnants of the old army were being reorganized in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles he helped...
...Everyone knows how eagerly China bid for the services of General Ludendorff himself some years ago. That eccentric German genius now prefers to keep a bookstore. But Chinese for years past have hired scores of able Germans...
...first emerged as a political figure in Catholic, reactionary Munich. Small, sparse Adolf Hitler with the little mustache and the great, rasping voice had gained the moral and financial support of General Erich Ludendorff, once Germany's most brilliant commander, already beginning to suffer from the delusions that led him to take up alchemy and the worship of Woden. In Munich the Hitler Brown Shirts first appeared; the Hitler symbol, the ancient swastika; and the Hitler doctrine which included disfranchising Jews, repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles and Reparations; death to all Communists, and the abolition of department stores...
...hailing motorists for a lift. Tall and lean, she dresses plainly, wears cotton stockings. She plays the piano with exceptional skill, is locally famed as a china-painter. During the War she was under surveillance as a pro-German, suspected of being a distant relative of General Erich Ludendorff...