| LUDENDORFF’S SECOND FRIEDEN- STURM. Ex-Quartermaster General VON LU- DENDORFF, on trial for high treason, took the stand in his own defense and, operating-along interior lines, de- livered an attack in rapid succession on several fronts, after the manner of the famous Spring days of 1918. He drove deep salients into the Socialists, the Jews, the Pope and the ex-Kaiser, but seems to have done little to pro- mote his strategic objective, which was to state ‘whether he did or did not set out to overthrow the German Government by force of arms. “A government of Marxists and Jews ” is the standard epithet for the Berlin Government in monarchist circles. LUDENDORFF, in applying the phrase, is careful to take in the Pope, though it is uncertain whether he did it in anger or out of calculation. Pos- sibly it may have occurred to him that Socialists and Jews are by no means the whole answer to that break-down in German morale, from LUDENDORFF'S point of view, which led to the loss of the war, again from LUDENDORFF'S point of view. The famous peace res- olution adopted by the Reichstag on July 19, 1917, which rejected the policy of forced annexations and is now re- garded by the German reactionaries as the first breach in the nation’s mo- rale, was engineered by the Catholic Centre Party, with ERZBERGER at the head. It was ERZBERGER who signed the armistice for Germany, and it wag another leader of the Catholic Centre in the person of Chancellor WIRTH who made a serious effort toward a policy of treaty fulfillment. ¥IirTH'S For- eign Minister, RATHENAU, was assas- sinated and ER2BERGER narrowly es- caped assassination. As for the So- cialists and their loyalty to Germany, LuDENDORFF might have recalled that it was a Socialist Minister named NOEKE who suppressed the Sparta- cides, with ruthless severity saved the country from communism. The task which LUDENDORFF has now set himself is obviously a formi- dable one. If he is out to save Ger- many from the Céntrists, Socialists, Radicals and Jews, he is engaged in saving Germany from four-fifths of the German people. The New York Times Published: March 3, 1924 |
1937
| Attacks on Ludendorff End BERLIN, April 7 (AP).—The Minis- try of Propaganda today ordered the German press, including all the church papers, to cease attacks on | General Erich Ludendorff and his neo-paganist "German God Move- ment.” The order followed upon General Ludendorff’s recent confer- ence with Chancellor Adolf Hitler, with whom he had had differences of long standing. The New York Times Published: April 8, 1937 |
2023
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Flynn is ‘reawakening’ the The answer? — nationalism. [Snipped] Retired general and Trump national The “ReAwaken” road show The ReAwaken America Tour Many of its adherents go further, Christian nationalists advocate Like much of far-right extremism, Christian nationalists figured The red cross on white background A prominent photo from the Jan. 6 Contrary to what the movement Drafters of the Bill of Rights created Most Christian nationalists realize Everyone who wants to live in a Tom Mockaitis is a professor Published: August 14, 2023 |
