Blaming his wife, the former Mathilda Kemnitz, for having tricked him into agitating against the Jews and Masons and for his adoption of certain unorthodox religious practices, General Erich von Ludendorff, former commander-in-chief of the Imperial German armies has filed suit for divorce. Madame Ludendorff, who was once a psychiatrist, is now the editor of the Ludendorff organ “Wochenschau” which has been zealously spreading the most fantastic anti-Semitic tales.
The suit for divorce was brought by General Ludendorff upon the advice of his friends, who made him realize that his wife had foisted upon him her fantastic theory that the Jews and Masons were plotting against the lives of noted Germans. So zealously has he propagated her ideas, which have become his own, that the former German war lord has been entirely isolated and ignored because of the obviously stupid and false legends he has been creating.
Since the end of the war, General Ludendorff has been an active anti-Semite, having at one time been associated with Adolph Hitler, leader of the anti-Semitic National Socialists. Among his ridiculous charges against the Jews were that the increase in railway accidents in Germany was due to the “machinations” of Jewish manufacturers of aeroplanes and automobiles for the purpose of furthering their industries.
At one time he was also connected with a scheme to make gold from baser metals. He also began a crusade for a return to the worship of the ancient pagan gods.
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