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He ran for President in 1925 with Nazi support, though he performed poorly. The First Nazi: Erich Ludendorff, The Man Who M...

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Ultimately, Ludendorff grew wary of Hitler, correctly predicting that the "Bohemian Corporal" would lead Germany into a catastrophic new war. Despite their falling out, the mechanisms Ludendorff built—the cult of the military leader, the scapegoating of minorities, and the demand for "Living Space" ( Lebensraum )—were the exact tools Hitler used to dismantle German democracy. Erich Ludendorff was the architect of Germany's total

Erich Ludendorff was the architect of Germany's total war strategy during World War I and the ideological bridge between the old Prussian military order and the rise of the Nazi Party. While he was never a member of the NSDAP, his actions and rhetoric created the blueprint for Adolf Hitler’s eventual seizure of power. The Warlord of the Great War

Ludendorff marched alongside Hitler during the failed 1923 coup in Munich.

In his later years, he moved beyond traditional nationalism into extreme anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism, even publishing a journal called The Völkische Watchman . A Complicated Legacy