Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Erich Ludendorff

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German politician Erich Ludendorff.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Erich Ludendorff

Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff was a German general, politician and military theorist. He achieved fame during World War I for his central role in the German victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914. Following his appointment as First Quartermaster-general of the Imperial Army's Great General Staff in 1916, he became the chief policymaker in a de facto military dictatorship that dominated Germany for the rest of the war. After Germany's defeat, he contributed significantly to the Nazis' rise to power.

The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity.
Leadership: Lions led by donkeys.
I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth. — © Erich Ludendorff
I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.
I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring victory.
By the Revolution the Germans have made themselves pariahs among the nations, incapable of winning allies, helots in the service of foreigners and foreign capital, and deprived of all self-respect. In twenty years' time, the German people will curse the parties who now boast of having made the Revolution.
A field Marshall is born, not made!
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