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1865–1937 Germany
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (April 9, 1865 – December 20, 1937) was a German general, the victor of the Battle of Liège and the Battle of Tannenberg. From August 1916, his appointment as Quartermaster general made him the leader (along with Paul von Hindenburg) of the German war efforts during World War I.
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There is but one hope, and this hope is embodied in the national groups which desire our recovery.
A field marshal is born, not made!
I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring victory.
During the years of the so-called peace, politics—total politics—have only a meaning in as much as they prepare for total war.
What the enemy allows to us and praises in us, must be bad for us.
I reject Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.
He is the only man...who has any political sense. Go and listen to him one day.
For example, Italy and Soviet Russia, superficially considered, each seem to constitute a united people. But any scrutinising glance will perceive there tensions which will disintegrate the peoples of these two States immediately the outbreak of war permits them to explode.
The un-Germanness in and about us...lies primarily in a lack of racial sense ... in international, pacifistic and defeatistic thinking and, finally, in the considerable advancement of the Jewish people within our boundaries.
By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign capital, and deprived of all self-respect. In twenty years' time, the German people will curse the parties who now boast of having made the Revolution.
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