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Erich Ludendorff
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“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 (1865–1937) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My War Memories, 1914–1918" - by Erich Ludendorff - 1919
“The German people had themselves coined the phrase "Prussian militarism," although this very "Prussian militarism," the spirit of unselfish loyalty, of the surrender of the individual to the conception of the State, had created Prussia and guaranteed Germany's brilliant development. People mistook externals for the substance of militarism, and failed to realize the national strength that issued from it. It should not have been resisted, but encouraged.”
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My War Memories, 1914-1918" - by Erich Ludendorff - 1919, p. 361-2
“What the enemy allows to us and praises in us, must be bad for us.”
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kriegsführung und Politik (Berlin, 1922), p. 334, quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 114
“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 (1865–1937) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kriegsführung und Politik (Berlin, 1922), p. 337, quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 27
“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.”
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kriegsführung und Politik (Berlin, 1922), pp. 337-338, quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 147
“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.”
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Der Totalkrieg (Berlin, 1933), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 139
“During the years of the so-called peace, politics—total politics—have only a meaning in as much as they prepare for total war.”
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Der Totalkrieg (Berlin, 1933), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 357
“There is but one hope, and this hope is embodied in the national groups which desire our recovery.”
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Black Book: The Nazi Crime Against the Jewish People" - Page 18 - World War, 1939-1945 - 1981
“He is the only man...who has any political sense. Go and listen to him one day.”
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About Hitler. Quoted in "Will Germany Crack?: A Factual Report on Germany from Within" - Page 134 - by Karl Boromäus Frank, Anna Caples - 1942
“A field marshal is born, not made!”
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an attempt to regain Ludendorff's favor, Hitler paid Ludendorff an unannounced visit in 1935 and offered to make him a field marshal. Infuriated, Ludendorff thundered back with this statement. Quoted in "World War I:…
“I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring victory.”
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Origins of the Military Dictatorship of Hindenburg and Ludendorff" by Jon Bridgman - 1960
“I reject Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.”
Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Deutsche Gottglaube, quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 9
“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 (1865–1937) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My War Memories, 1914-1918" - by Erich Ludendorff - 1919