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The remarkable strategic swings of 1917 had led General Erich Ludendorff, the German army’s First Quartermaster General and its de facto operational commander, to this desperate gamble. In April that year, Germany’s long-term prospects, already dimmed by years of grueling attritional combat and hunger at home, had been doomed by the United States’ entry into hostilities. They lost the World War.
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