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In an attempt to regain Ludendorff's favor, Hitler arrived unannounced at Ludendorff's home on his 70th birthday in 1935 to promote him to field marshal. Infuriated, Ludendorff allegedly rebuffed Hitler by telling him: "An officer is named General Field-Marshal on the battlefield!
Hitler and many of his inner circle had distanced themselves from Ludendorff over his increasingly erratic and bizarre beliefs. Ludendorff died of cancer in 1937, but his anti-democratic and antisemitic “Stab-in-the-Back” contention remained a powerful weapon in the Nazi propaganda arsenal.
General Erich von Ludendorff, the famous German Commander in the Great War, who was associated with Hitler in their joint putsch in Munich in 1923, has now declared war on his old...
After Germany's defeat in 1918, Ludendorff then became deeply involved in German nationalist movements, culminating in the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 in Munich, where he collaborated with Hitler, marching with him through the city.
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Oct 29, 2009 · Aligning himself with nationalist and right-wing circles, Ludendorff joined Hitler in the failed Beer Hall Putsch coup attempt in 1923, aiming to overthrow the Weimar Republic. Although he...
Erich Ludendorff (born April 9, 1865, Kruszewnia, near Poznań, Prussian Poland—died Dec. 20, 1937, Munich, Ger.) was a Prussian general who was mainly responsible for Germany’s military policy and strategy in the latter years of World War I.
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