ENMITY ENDS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 158, 1 April 1937, Page 11

ENMITY ENDS

Ludendorff and Herr Hitler

‘GERMANY’S INTEREST’ Reconciliation Follows Secret Meeting INFLUENCE OF SPAIN By Telegraph -Press Assn.—Copyright. (“Times’’ Cable.) Munich, March 30. The long-standing quarrel between the German Chancellor anti Fuehrer, Herr Hitler, and General Ludendorf, has been composed. Despite their being associated in Herr Hitler’s abortive putsch in 1923 and later tried together for high treason, they became bitter enemies. It is officially announced that, in tlie interests of the German people, their grievances have now been removed. General Ludendorff expressed satisfaction with Herr Hitler’s attitude to tlie Versailles Treaty, and especially his restoring full German sovereignty to the Rhine. Herr Hitler, in turn, welcomes the personal contact between General Ludendorff, the Third Reich, and the army.

General Ludendorff’s publication was confiscated in January for a denunciation of the German policy in Spain. It said that the only advantage would be to Italy.

It is now suggested that General Ludendorff may be given an important position in the Reichswehr. IMPORTANT POST Ludendorff May Go, To War Ministry (Received March 31, 10.45 p.m.) London, March 31. Tlie Munich correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says Herr Hitler and General Ludendorff on Tuesday met secretly at the village of Tutzing. 30 miles from Munich, where General Ludendorff has been living since _ his retirement and to which Herr Hitler specially motored for their first talk since 1924. The real purpose of the meeting is not revealed, but it is generally assumed that the Spanish situation prompted Herr Hitler to seek advice from Germany’s most experienced army commander. It is believed he persuaded General Ludendorff to leave his retirement and accept an active post at the German. War Ministry.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff, quarter-master-general of the Second Army in 1914, was one of the first officers to enter Liege in that year and became Chief of Staff to Field-Marshal von Hindenburg, and later first quartermastergeneral to the German commander-in-chief. He was prominent in events leading up to the fall of Bethmann-Hollweg and Kuehlmann and the conclusion of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1917. He retired in the following year. He was adviser to the new Government at the time of the Kapp coup-d’etat in 1920. In 1923 he was arrested, but later, released after taking part in the Hitler Putsch at Munich. He became a National Socialist member of the Reichstag in 1924 and in the following year was a candidate for the Presidency but received only one per cent, of the votes. He resigned from the Nazi Party in 1932, but since then has been active in support of the Teuton religious movement.