# Ludendorff — Now It Can Be Told character guide

> Ludendorff in Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** IX, Ludendorff, IX Ludendorff

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Who they are

German general and military strategist.

## In the story

### [XXI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/xxi)

Ludendorff is implied as part of the German General Staff concerned with declining infantry morale.

### [Part VII: The Fields of Armageddon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/part-vii-the-fields-of-armageddon)

Ludendorff is referenced for his reckoning of British losses at three to one, and as a symbol of the German High Command's calculations.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/i)

Cited for his memoirs and his cold-blooded gamble with millions of lives; his miscalculations are a central focus.

### [The Devastated Region](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/ii)

Ludendorff is quoted justifying the retreat and destruction as a brilliant military performance; the narrator contrasts this with the human suffering.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/iv)

Quoted admitting the staggering moral effect and heavy cost of the British mine explosions.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/v)

Quoted describing the German agony and the 'terrific' battles, acknowledging enormous losses and the demoralization of German units.

### [The German Offensive of 1918](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/viii)

Plays his trump cards on March 21st, launching the great German offensive.

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/ix)

Quoted on the broken morale of German troops and the 'black day' of August 8th.

### [After the Armistice: Occupation and Reflection](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/x)

Ludendorff is noted as not starving or dying while German children starved.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/i)

Mentioned alongside Hindenburg as a figure of German military authority.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/iii)

Listed among the war lords who were less punished than the innocent in the peace treaty.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/now_it_can_be_told_se/chapters/vi)

Ludendorff is noted for confessing that German soldiers were 'infected' with Bolshevism.

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