Erich Ludendorff quotes

Erich Ludendorff quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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

Source : "My War Memories, 1914-1918". Book by Erich Ludendorff, 1919.

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“I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.”
-- Erich Ludendorff

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“You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery. Future generations will damn you in your grave for what you have done.”
-- Erich Ludendorff

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“A field Marshall is born, not made!”
-- Erich Ludendorff

Source : "World War I: Encyclopedia". Book by Spencer Tucker, p. 716, 2005.

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“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

Source : "The Origins of the Military Dictatorship of Hindenburg and Ludendorff". Book by Jon Bridgman, 1960.

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“Leadership: Lions led by donkeys.”
-- Erich Ludendorff

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“The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity.”
-- Erich Ludendorff

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