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...years ago General Erich von Ludendorff, Wartime Chief of Staff of the Imperial German Army, surprised his countrymen by becoming a convert to the worship of Woden, fierce Teuton god. Said the general last spring: "Charlemagne introduced Jewish Christianity into Germany. He destroyed the Teutonic faith in Woden. . . . Behind all our troubles lie Charlemagne and the Pope" (TIME, June 16). Other recent eccentricities of General von Ludendorff include an interest in alchemy and the manufacture of gold from baser metals. Consistent with his Woden worship, he published and had his second wife edit a journal called Volkswarte, dedicated to antiSemitism...
...Demagog Hitler and General Erich von Ludendorff gathered the nucleus of the present German Fascist party, attempted a revolution in 1923 which they hoped would make them Germany's dictators but which unhappily only brought them to trial for treason. Ludendorff was released, retired to obscurity and the private worship of Norse war gods (TIME, June 16). Hitler, sentenced to five years of military imprisonment, was released at the end of eight months, so completely destitue of a following did he seem...
...disgruntled Prussian militarists of the Ludendorff school blame Germany's loss of the War on Christianity. They have started a cult of Wodan, the Teuton's remorseless God of War. Last week a sermon on Wodan was preached by General Erich von Ludendorff himself to a group of Wodanists assembled in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein...
Socialism as well as Christianity is a Ludendorff bête noir. In reporting his "sermon" the great Berlin Socialist daily Vorwarts headlined: "Perfectly Silly!," declared it scandalous that a Missionary of Wodan is allowed to draw a general's pension from the Republic's Treasury...
...Elliot Warne left his snug little parish in England to go to France as an earnest, sensitive, high-minded chaplain, he could not have picked a worse time. He joined his unit, an artillery brigade in Cough's Fifth Army, in the spring of 1918, four hours before Ludendorff launched his spring offensive. The first barrage shattered Chaplain Warne's nerve. For the next three weeks of nightmare, as the lines bent daily backward but never quite broke, he was in an increasing agony of bewildered fear and uselessness. Said one of the mess: "This parson of ours...