PRE-WW2 GERMAN ARMY GEN LUDENDORFF 70TH B-DAY withBLOMBERG, FRITSCH PHOTO POSTCARD
PRE-WW2 GERMAN ARMY GEN LUDENDORFF 70TH B-DAY WITH BLOMBERG, FRITSCH PHOTO POSTCARD RPPC. PRE-WW2 GERMAN ARMY GENERAL ERICH LUDENDORFF 70TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT THE CENTER WITH PICKLEHAUB, INCLUDING (ON HIS LEFT) GERMAN DEFENCE MINISTER GENERALOBERST WERNER VON BLOMBERG, AND (TO HIS RIGHT). COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE GERMAN ARMY GENERAL DER ARTILLERY. Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff b. 1937 was a German general and politician. He achieved fame during WW1 for his central role in the German victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914. After his appointment as First Quartermaster General of the German General Staff in 1916, Ludendorff became Germany’s chief policymaker in a de facto military dictatorship until the country’s defeat in 1918. Later during the years of the Weimar Republic, Ally of the Freikorps he took. Part in the failed 1920 Kapp Putsch and the WW2 German Leader’s 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, thereby contributing significantly to the National Socialist’s rise to power. Ludendorff’s 70th birthday (1935): On April 9, 1935, General Erich Ludendorff was celebrated in Germany for his 70th birthday. It was a major national event, commanded by the German Fuhrer and was a way for the National Socialist Party’s regime to honor military greatness and rehabilitate Ludendorff’s image. At the event, Ludendorff delivered a controversial speech criticizing. And promoting a new pagan-like faith espoused by his wife. CAPTION IMPRINT ON THE REVERSE. The general’s 70th birthday. Ludendorff Publishing House, Munich 2 N. SHARP FOCUS WITH VERY FINE CONTRAST. THIS IS NOT A REPRODUCTION OR A COPY.