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Show Hated Jews, U. S. GENERAL Ll'DENDORFF Heathen . . . Proud of it GERMAN WAR I LEADERJIES MUNICH, Dec. 20 (UP) General Erich Ludendorf, one of Germany's most brilliant soldiers in the World war and an anti-Christian, anti-Jewish anti-Jewish leader after It, died today. He was 72. Regarded by many as Germany's master mind In the war, credited with successes that made the late Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and others world figures, he became after the war an embittered man, Ludendorffs postwar activities included campaigns in favor of his neo-pagan sect and against Christianity Chris-tianity and Jews, and participation in the Kapp putsch and Adolf Hitler's Hit-ler's beer cellar putsch. He died in a Catholic hospital attended at-tended by Catholic nuns. Fuehrer Adolf Hitler was expected ex-pected to offer a state funeral. Friends, however, predicted that his body would be removed to his home at Tutzing, outside Munich, and buried privately. They recalled that be had announced on October 20: "I have stated in my last will and testament that no official or military mili-tary observance of any sort should be held at my funeral." Ludendorff had been 111 for several sev-eral weeks. At his bedside were his two physicians and his wife, the former Dr. Mathilda von Kem-nitz, Kem-nitz, whom he married in 1926 after being divorced by his first wife, who named her corespondent Within three weeks of the outbreak out-break of the World war Ludendorff was sent to the eastern front as chief of staff to the then General Paul von Hinderburg. On August 29. 1916. Ludendorff was mad general gen-eral chief of stAff. Ludendorff interested himself, In his retirement here. In his hates-Christian hates-Christian doctrinaires, 'Jews, Jesuits, Jes-uits, Freemasons and Americana "I am not merely an opponent of Christianity. I am literally anti-Christian anti-Christian and a heathen, and proud of it." Toward the end of his life Ludendorff Luden-dorff more and more devoted himself him-self to religious questions. He preached a "German knowledge of God" and preached against Christianity, Chris-tianity, saying it was unfit for the German race. His own sect was recognized officially of-ficially under public law. |