Ep 44: Jay Lockenour on Erich Ludendorff

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Jay Lockenour, associate professor of history at Temple University and author of Dragonslayer: The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich, joins the show to talk about the life of the infamous German general and politician.

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Times

• 01:30 Introduction

• 02:00 Ludendorff’s Significance

• 03:08 Ludendorff’s Early Life

• 05:02 Not Quite A Matinee Idol

• 07:13 The German General Staff

• 11:43 A General Without Portfolio

• 17:50 The War And The Myth

• 22:23 For The Record - The German Military Lost

• 26:12 The Early 1920’s

• 29:49 Erich And Adolf

• 34:10 Ludendorff And The Right

• 37:00 The Holocaust And Ludendorff