Top Ten Best Erich Ludendorff Quotes

Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff was a German general & presidential candidate.
The Top Ten
1 A field marshall is born, not made!
2 During the years of the so-called peace, politics—total politics—have only a meaning in as much as they prepare for total war.
3 ..must..understand..manly discipline-unconditional subordination to selfless leaders guided..by..public spirit,relegation of..thoughts,& confidence in..Führer..guarantee..moral force of..individual..aggregated into..power..effect..rebuilding..Fatherland.
4 I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring victory.
5 What the enemy allows to us and praises in us, must be bad for us.
6 Caught in the advanced zone by our hail of fire they often collapsed,& the lonely man in the shell-hole breathed again.Then the mass came on again.Rifle & machine-gun jammed with the mud.Man fought against man,& only too often the mass was successful.
7 The horror of the shell-hole area of Verdun was surpassed.It was no longer life at all.It was mere unspeakable suffering.And through this world of mud the attackers dragged themselves, slowly, but steadily, and in dense masses.
8 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,& deprived of all self-respect.
9 In twenty years' time, the German people will curse the parties who now boast of having made the Revolution.
10 The 5th act of..great drama in Flanders opened on..22nd October.Enormous masses of ammunition,such as..human mind had never imagined before the war,were hurled upon..bodies of men who passed a miserable existence scattered about in mud-filled shell-holes.
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