HIST 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Erich Ludendorff, Independent Social Democratic Party Of Germany, Xenophobia
28 Nov 2016
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Ludendorff says, on september 20, 1918, that the war will end with a german defeat: this harms germany"s cause at the peace table. Ludendorff says that the army did not lose the war, but the weak people on the home front lost the war for germany. Hindenburg even says that the german army was stabbed in the back. Both ludendorff and hindenburg blame specific groups on the home front. The people really at fault for the loss of the war were the german high command and the kaiser himself, but it was better to blame the undesirables in german society. German high admiral wants to needlessly sacrifice the german navy against a combined british- American fleet, which is undeniably impossible to overcome alone: sailors and naval personnel revolt against the admiralty. This spurns a national revolt against the kaiser and the government.
