Ludendorff in a sentence

Erster General-Quartiermeister Ludendorff might have endorsed the term, but Ludendorff was a military fanatic.

In his memoirs Ludendorff takes credit for the encirclement Ludendorff, 1919, p. 59. and most historians give him full responsibility for conducting the battle.

Having a piece of the Ludendorff Bridge is a reminder of where we came from and what First Army has achieved,” Braafladt said.

And thus was born a legend which has never entirely perished. citation The phrase was to Ludendorff's liking, and he let it be known among the general staff that this was the "official" version, and so it was disseminated throughout German society.

Around 10:30 p.m., Ludendorff released Kahr and his associates.

By 1916, Germany was effectively a military dictatorship run by Hindenburg and Ludendorff, with the Kaiser reduced to a mere figurehead.

Despite all this, Ludendorff completely ruled out the idea of marching on Moscow and Petrograd to remove the Bolshevik government from power.

He requested that the battle be named Tannenberg (an imaginative touch that both Ludendorff and Hoffmann claimed as their own).

Hindenburg and Ludendorff watched from a hilltop, with only a single field telephone line; thereafter they stayed closer to the telephone network.

However, when a consignment of papers relating to Landsberg prison (including the visitor book) were later sold at auction, it was noted that Ludendorff had visited Hitler a number of times.

In 1917, Hindenburg and Ludendorff decided that Bethman-Hollweg was no longer acceptable to them as Chancellor and called upon the Kaiser to appoint somebody else.

In 1918 Wilhelmshöhe became the seat of the German Army High Command (OHL): it was there that the military commanders Hindenburg and Ludendorff prepared the German capitulation.

It was a good story that Hoffmann treasured and retold frequently, citation so it reappears in many histories, but not in either Hindenburg’s or Ludendorff’s memoirs.

Ludendorff had expected Hindenburg to follow him by also resigning, but Hindenburg refused on the grounds that in this hour of crisis, he could not desert the men under his command.

Ludendorff, however, was interested in shifting the blame for the lost war to the politicians and to the Reichstag parties.

Ludendorff offered his resignation and Wilhelm II accepted.

Ludendorff replied with his list of excuses, including that the home front failed the army.

Ludendorff's eyes lit up and he leapt upon the phrase like a dog on a bone.

Ludendorff showed up a little before 9 p.m. and, being shown into the ante-room, concentrated on Lossow and Seisser, appealing to their sense of duty.

Ludendorff, who had fallen out with Hindenburg over the decision to continue seeking the armistice in October 1918, was concerned that Hindenburg might reveal that it was he who had advised seeking an armistice the previous month.