Erich Von Ludendorff was at the German military commander in the World War I. He was
named chief staff to the Eighth Army. In 1918 he became a member of the National Socialist Party and wrote “Der Totale Krieg (The National at war). Erich Ludendorff became the nominal deputy to chief of the general staff of Paul Von Hindenburg. Ludendorff embodied the strengths and weaknesses of the German Ray in the twentieth century. He is described as representing everything negative in the rise of the generation of the office. Such as the bourgeois by birth, specialists by training, and philistine by instinct. Ludendorff did succeed in getting the army to estimates increased in the face of a Reichstag whose parties, from right to left, above all disliked voting for the taxes. He paid the price of his conviction in 1913 by being transferred to common an undistinguished regiment. When the war was over in August 1914, Ludendorff was restored to favor as a deputy chief of the staff for the second army.