Erich Ludendorff quotes
Erich Ludendorff was a German General and military strategist, most famous for his role in World War I. As a leading commander, he played a crucial part in major battles and in shaping Germany's war efforts. He later became involved in right-wing politics and remained an influential, though controversial, figure in German history. Here are 13 of his quotes:
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.
Erich Ludendorff
The fifth act of the great drama in Flanders opened on the 22nd October. Enormous masses of ammunition, such as the human mind had never imagined before the war, were hurled upon the bodies of men who passed a miserable existence scattered about in mud-filled shell-holes. The horror of the shell-hole area of Verdun was surpassed. It was no longer life at all. It was mere unspeakable suffering. And through this world of mud the attackers dragged themselves, slowly, but steadily, and in dense masses. Caught in the advanced zone by our hail of fire they often collapsed, and the lonely man in the shell-hole breathed again. Then the mass came on again. Rifle and machine-gun jammed with the mud. Man fought against man, and only too often the mass was successful.
Erich Ludendorff
We must all understand that only manly discipline-unconditional subordination to selfless leaders guided only by their public spirit, relegation of our own thoughts, and confidence in the Führer-can guarantee that the moral force of the individual shall be aggregated into a power that will effect the re-building of the nation and the Fatherland.
Erich Ludendorff
