MARSHAL LUDENDORFF
QUIET NIGHT PASSED CONDITION IMPROVED MUNICH, Nov. 30. Field-marshal Ludendorff had a quiet His condition is slightlyimproved.
General von Ludendorff is 71 years of age. German historians give him the credit of having been “ the brains behind Hindenburg ” in Germany’s spectacular successes on her eastern front in the Great War.
After Germany’s complete collapse on the western front in the late autumn of 1918 von Ludendorff fled to Sweden. He returned to Germany in the spring of 1919, to become the focus of all reactionary conspiracies. In 1923 he took part in Hitler’s fruitless “ putsch ” at Munich. Only his past reputation saved him from the consequence of that ignominious fiasco. In late years he has been conspicuous for his vehement denunciation of Christianity. In 1925 he stood for the Presidency and gained 1 per cent, of the votes cast. He has sought converts to “ the Germanic faith,” as revealed in the old Nordic songs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23364, 2 December 1937, Page 11
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