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Updated: June 14, 2025
Ludendorff was a great patriot, desiring nothing for himself, but seeking only the happiness of his country; a military genius, a hard man, utterly fearless and for all that a misfortune in that he looked at the whole world through Potsdam glasses, with an altogether erroneous judgment, wrecking every attempt at peace which was not a peace by victory.
Ludendorff, referring to the German offensive in March, 1918, tells us, "Our artillery relied on gas for its effect. Such a point becomes of greater importance as the influence of other arms decreases. If we assume international arrangements for the limitation of other types of armament in the future, chemical warfare at once stands out as decisive. Controlling Factors; Rapid Manufacture.
To destroy Paris means a price of 750,000 Germans at least. The probabilities are that so heavy a price would mean a political revolution in Germany. But what if Ludendorff gets to Paris? Rome was twice destroyed, and later the city of brick was rebuilt as a city of marble. Nearly fifty years ago the people of Paris destroyed their own city, at an expense of hundreds of millions of francs.
MAURY: It's attributed, I believe, to General Ludendorff. PARAMORE: Surely you're joking. MAURY: Have another drink. PARAMORE: I oughtn't to. MURIEL: Oh, let's take up the rugs and dance! MURIEL: Come on, you lazy-bones. Get up and move the furniture back. DICK: Wait till I finish my drink. Let's each fill one glass, drink it off and then we'll dance. MURIEL: My head is simply going round now.
During the German retreat to their Hindenburg line we saw the full ruthlessness of war as never before on the western front, in the laying waste of a beautiful countryside, not by rational fighting, but by carefully organized destruction. Ludendorff claims, quite justly, that it was in accordance with the laws of war. That is true.
Kühlmann suggested to Ludendorff that he should come to Brest himself and take part in the negotiations.
To deal first with the reason which actuated me in visiting General Ludendorff, I reproduce below the dialogue which took place thereanent before the Examination Committee: Delegate Dr.
In order to exculpate themselves all the leaders in Germany declared that America would, in any case, have gone to war, and that the U-boat had merely given the last impetus. Whether this is quite true appears doubtful; it cannot either be asserted or denied positively. The world has become used to looking upon Hindenburg and Ludendorff as one; they belonged together.
My notes about the interview I had with General Ludendorff ran as follows: General Ludendorff received me with the following words: "In America you wanted to make peace. You evidently thought we were at the end of our tether." I replied: "No, I did not think that; but I wanted to make peace before we came to the end of our tether." Whereupon the General said: "We, however, did not want to.
"And then many of them will die." She wept a little. I thought of those other babies in Amiens, and of the old Reverend Mother. "How will God punish all this? Alas! it is the innocent who suffer for the guilty." Of those things General Ludendorff does not write in his Memoirs, which deal with the strategy and machinery of war.
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