![]() ![]() Old generals with younger men eager to serve their Führer and follow ![]() Who never changed his mind once he made a firm decision and would do anythingįor Hitler, the moment had arrived to clean house, to replace the crusty The generals didn't realize they were dealing with a man And any attempts to get him to change his mind were a complete Into a new European war with catastrophic consequences.īut Hitler didn't care about consequences. Hossbach conference, in which Hitler first revealed his war plans, theyĮxpressed great fear that the quest for Lebensraum would plunge Germany His troops out of fear the French might attack. The Rhineland a few years earlier they had repeatedly urged Hitler to withdraw Grab more living space for the German people. Lacked the nerve to go along with the Führer's ambitious plans to However, by the beginning of 1938, it seemed the old-school generals Of course, knew where he stood with them and he tolerated their quiet disdain The man referred to by Hindenburg as the "Austrian corporal."Īlthough the Führer might be admired by millions, he would never beįully accepted by the upper echelons of his own General Staff. ADVERTISEMENTĪmong this closed society, Adolf Hitler would always be an outsider, Of soldiers just as their fathers and grandfathers had. Traditions, knowing even in childhood they would one day command battalions Old school, born into aristocratic Prussian families with long military Ludendorff, along with Germany's other senior generals were men of the ![]() Reich into the abyss and will inflict immeasurable woe on our nation." I prophesy to you this evil man will plunge our Just "handed over our sacred German Fatherland to one of the greatestĭemagogues of all time. Of Germany in 1933, Ludendorff sent Hindenburg a telegram saying he had When President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor Years earlier and never forgave Hitler for scooting away amid the gunfire Ludendorff had participated in the failed Beer Hall Putsch fourteen Not wanting to utter any words of praise for a man who had come to despise At the memorial service Hitler chose not to speak, Of General Erich Ludendorff, the famed World War I military leader and A few days before Christmas in 1937, Adolf Hitler attended the funeral ![]()
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