Autograph - Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) - handwritten and signed quote card, 1922

Autograph - Erich Ludendorff (1865–1937) - handwritten and signed quote card, 1922.
Cardboard card (8.5 x 13 cm) bearing a handwritten inscription: "Nothing stands higher (?) than the fatherland – Munich, May 13, 1922 – Ludendorff." Ludendorff—who, alongside Hindenburg, had been a key figure in the Third Supreme Command of the Army during the First World War—subsequently developed the "stab-in-the-back" conspiracy theory (*Dolchstoßlegende*). In his 1922 publication *Warfare and Politics* (*Kriegsführung und Politik*), he attributed the military defeat to socialists and pacifists. Furthermore, beginning in the early 1920s, he moved politically closer to Hitler and the NSDAP; however, following the failed Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch of November 9, 1923, this relationship cooled significantly due to mutual recriminations.