Europe’s Dark Angel of the 20th Century
6 min readMay 10, 2021
Over many of the darkest events of the 20th century looms the presence of one man: Erich Ludendorff. His influence is with us still.
Born in 1865, near what is now the Polish city of Poznań, Ludendorff was the son of minor Prussian nobility when that part of the world was still German territory. Entering the German military at an early age, he soon made a name for himself as a strict, humorless…
