Word: ludendorffs
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...when German armies in the West were plunging through France toward the Marne, the Russian steamroller bit deep into East Prussia. General Hindenburg was jerked from retirement, sent to oppose Russia with brilliant, erratic Erich Ludendorff as Chief of Staff. Followed the most brilliant campaign of the whole War. At Tannenburg one Russian army was annihilated, the other was completely broken up; one Russian General committed suicide. Hindenburg overnight became Germany's hero. His appointment as Chief of Staff was inevitable. Germany burgeoned with wooden Hindenburg idols, stuck full of nails...
...that he first gained popularity. It was with Germany in defeat that he entered the hearts of his countrymen. The Kaiser fled to Holland, Ludendorff fled to Sweden. Old Paul stayed on with his troops, ready to take what was coming to him. There came another retirement for Old Paul until 1925, when Junker and Royalist factions decided that the way to restore the monarchy was to elect Old Paul, most faithful of the Kaiser's servants, President of the Reich to succeed President Ebert. They did, but they forgot the old man's sense of duty. When...
Because, lecturing in 1928, he had stated that Count Stanislaus Dohna, 80, one time Grand Master of German Freemasons, knew in 1911 that the Serbs planned to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand of Austria (nominal cause of the Great War) and took no steps to prevent it, eccentric General Erich Ludendorff was given a choice of paying 500 marks in fine or spending ten days in jail, by a court at Gotha, Germany...
General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing last week presented My Experiences in the World War, in book form, to take its place beside the military memoirs of Foch, Haig, Hindenburg, Ludendorff.? Dedicating his volume to the Unknown Soldier, the only commander since George Washington to lead a U. S. Army throughout an entire war focused his full attention upon the military contribution of the U. S. to Allied victory. Outside the range of his crisp impersonal narrative are the billions of dollars, the tons of supplies and food with which the U. S. bolstered up France and Britain after...
...plunged into journalism. The War put a stop to his propaganda paper, Fatherland (later resumed as American Monthly), brought Viereck persecution but no bodily harm. In the post-War millennium he thrives again. Other books: The House of the Vampire, Confessions of a Barbarian, As They Saw Us (Foch, Ludendorff and other leaders...