| Ludendorff became optimistic that Passchendaele Ridge could be held and ordered the 4th Army to stand fast. |
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| Austria and Hungary warned that they could only continue the war until December, and Ludendorff recommended immediate peace negotiations. |
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| Knowing the government of Prince Maximilian of Baden would veto any such action, Ludendorff decided not to inform him. |
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| Once it was clear that Germany was going to be defeated, Ludendorff had ordered the destruction of the mines in France and Belgium. |
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| By 1916, Germany was effectively a military dictatorship run by Hindenburg and Ludendorff, with the Kaiser reduced to a mere figurehead. |
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| In August 1916 the German leadership along the western front had changed as Falkenhayn resigned and was replaced by Hindenburg and Ludendorff. |
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| However, in the Spring Offensive of 1918, Ludendorff used artillery only briefly and infiltrated small groups of infantry at weak points. |
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| Clark attributed this remark to the German generals Max Hoffmann and Erich Ludendorff but later admitted that he lied. |
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| On 30 April Ludendorff called a halt to the Flanders offensive. |
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| Falkenhayn was replaced by Erich Ludendorff, and with no success in sight, the German Army pulled out of Verdun in December 1916 and the battle ended. |
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| When Bulgaria signed a separate armistice on 29 September, Ludendorff, having been under great stress for months, suffered something similar to a breakdown. |
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