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| Name | Ludendorff's warning to von Hindenburg when he appointed Hitler Chancellor |
| Video Uploader | Video From History on YouTube |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 08-03-2024 19:00:07 |
| Video Discription | On 30 January 1933, the President of Germany, Paul Hindenburg, appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor. Hitler had not won an election, nor any form of parliamentary majority, Hindenburg was persuaded to do this above all by three conservatives, business magnate Alfred Hugenberg, right wing politician Franz von Papen and Hindenburg’s own son Oskar. Hindenburg had allowed the conservatives to persuade him to do this against his better will. The appointment did not please everyone. One person it did not please was Hindenburg’s former colleague in arms from WW1. Erich Ludendorff. Ludendorf showed his displeasure in the following letter to Hindenburg, dated two days later : I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery. Future generations will damn you in your grave for what you have done. That is the translation of the message given in Ian Kershaw’s book on Hitler. This is what is left of what I think was the largest war memorial in the world at the time Ludendorf sent the message to Hindenburg. This is the exact spot of the centre of the Tannenburg Memorial, built to commemorate the Second Battle of Tannenburg in 1914. Today very little is left of it. However this memorial was in the 1930s the very focal point of the cult around Hindenburg and Ludendorf as the men who had jointly saved Germany from Russian invasion. They were the two greatest living Germans, the best known leaders of WW1, men who had worked closely together to foil invasion in 1914. That was the legend, and that in my opinion was precisely a legend but, as we shall see, it was not the only one. Ludendorf had clearly fallen out with Hitler but that was not always so. In 1923 Hitler had planned a putsch against the German state. This putsch was carried out in a Munich drinking establishment. A Munich drinking establishment may seem like a good place to start a putsch as if it fails at least you can get yourself totally sloshed in order to drown your sorrows. Ludendorf, at the time denied having been involved in the planning stage, although his son later admitted that he had. It is of course, somewhat hard to believe that the man who had allegedly planned the battles at Liege and in East Prussia in 1914, some of the great battles in the east and the western front offensives in 1918 could have been involved. That was possibly the way it appeared at the time. The putschists had managed to take over a beer hall where the leaders of Bavaria were meeting, together with an army barracks and kidnap a number of prominent politicians. For good measure they also terrorised a number of the citizens of Munich and robbed a number of businesses, netting a fortune – most of which was never seen again. It seems as though their plans were then to march on Berlin. After all, the previous year, Mussolini had marched on Rome and seized power and Hitler and his cronies had gone on a weekend out to Coburg so it might have seemed possible. Possibly they did not realise that despite what the propaganda might have said, Mussolini went to Rome in the train and the king instead of turning the army and police against the rebels had given in. The march on Coburg did not result in anything more than a handful of new supporters for the National Socialist party. If you get a globe, the whole world, and look up Munich and Berlin, you will see that there is some distance between the two. Nearly 600km. That is a long way to march. Once the beer hall had run out of beer, hundreds of tired and hung over Nazi rebels needed to do something whilst the authorities organised themselves to counter the rebels. Whilst stewing about what to do next, Ludendorf had insisted on a march to the centre of Munich. The point of this was, I think, to see if the army and police would stop them and to make a demonstration of force to the locals. The police did stop them. A confrontation with the police took place which resulted in 20 deaths (possibly more) and many injured. Ludendorf had been involved in far right politics for some time. He was effectively the leader of Germany in 1917 – 1918 and had to flee the country at the end of WW1 with a false beard and probably a silly hat. He did not stay out of the country for long, he returned and was involved in the Kapp Putsch in 1920. This failed but it did not effect his liberty. He went to live in Munich, a curious choice given his hatred of Catholics. Around this time, he met Hitler for the first time, introduced to him probably by early Nazi Max Erwin von Scheubner Richter. Legends were built around the Beer Hall Putsch by the Nazis. [9oxFVL3k4HM] |
| Category | Education |
| Tags | Ludendorff | Hindenberg | Hitler | von Hindenberg Hitler Chancellor |
