Ep 44: Jay Lockenour on Erich Ludendorff ▪️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. ▪️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
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This podcast seeks to learn what war teaches. There has been a steady decline in the study of military history and its associated theoretical discipline, strategy.This podcast seeks to fill that gap through in-depth interviews on military and diplomatic history. Our guests have included former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis, and former China Select Committee chairman Mike Gallagher. We discuss the battlefield commanders, diplomats, strategists, policymakers, and statesmen who have had to make wartime decisions in the ancient and modern eras. The subject of an episode may be an historical battle, campaign, o...