biography
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Ludendorff, Erich von
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pronunciation:
[ludendaw(r)f]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1865–1937)
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| biography:
| General, born near Poznan, WC Poland (formerly Posen, Prussia). He became chief-of-staff under Hindenburg, defeated the Russians at Tannenberg (1914), and conducted the 1918 offensives on the Western Front. In 1923 he was a leader in the unsuccessful Hitler putsch at Munich, but was acquitted of treason. He became a Nazi, but from 1925 led a minority party of his own. |
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