After—successful campaigns various fronts, in, 1916 and 1917, and the collapse' of Russia in 1018, Ludendorff thought he saw the opportunity for bringing the war to 0 quleke conclusion by a. victorious offensive in the Champagne. That, however, proved the bestinnins of the end'and, with Marshal Foch's counter-offensive, the collapse the German Army set In, On October 24, 1918, the Kaiser. under pressure from the political parties, removed Ludendorff from his post, Fearful of Impeachment, he fled to Swecon; but he bore his Kaiser no malice.
'He took with him the picture of the Kaiser on horseback near the front, with the inscription in letters two inches high, "To my dear Luvlendorf, September 1917." that the Kaiser' had given him. This he kept all his life and always displayed ina prominent position in his
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