Erich Ludendorff citáty
Erich Ludendorff
Datum narození: 9. duben 1865
Datum úmrtí: 20. prosinec 1937
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff byl pruský a německý generál a politik. Byl s Paulem von Hindenburgem hlavním strůjcem německé taktiky během první světové války.
Citáty Erich Ludendorff
„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
Quoted in "The Origins of the Military Dictatorship of Hindenburg and Ludendorff" by Jon Bridgman - 1960
„A field marshall is born, not made!“
— Erich Ludendorff
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: Encyclopedia" - Page 716 - by Spencer Tucker, Priscilla Mary Roberts - History - 2005
„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
Quoted in "My War Memories, 1914-1918" - by Erich Ludendorff - 1919
„He is the only man... who has any political sense. Go and listen to him one day.“
— Erich Ludendorff
About Hitler. Quoted in "Will Germany Crack?: A Factual Report on Germany from Within" - Page 134 - by Karl Boromäus Frank, Anna Caples - 1942
„There is but one hope, and this hope is embodied in the national groups which desire our recovery.“
— Erich Ludendorff
Quoted in "The Black Book: The Nazi Crime Against the Jewish People" - Page 18 - World War, 1939-1945 - 1981
„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
Quoted in "My War Memories, 1914–1918" - by Erich Ludendorff - 1919
