Who Said That?

"I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our nation into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery.  Future generations will damn you for what you have done."

Leave your guess in the comments section below (no google searches or cheating).  Answer to follow next week.

Update on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 04:52PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is General Ludendorrf's lament about Hitler to Reich President Hindenberg in January of 1933.

Comments

[John Yeazel]

Ludendorff was an officer in the German military who died in 1937 and was a member of the Nazi party- so, I do not see him making the quote. Hitler attended his funeral.

[Ken]

I'm gonna' say Bonhoeffer regarding the German National Church's support of the NAZI party.

[Kylein WI]

From 1924 to 1928 he was a Nazi member of the Reichstag. Erich was the was the right-wing Nationalist candidate in the 1925 Presidential Elections but won less than 1 per cent of the vote. Acutally Erich was a good nazi and a racist to the core, although he hated Hitler to the core. He only saw Hitler as just another manipulative politician This all happened in 1928. Hitler than offered in 1935 to make him a field mashal. Erich replied" a field marshal is born, not made." Erich hated Hitler. About the funeral. Erich made it clear that he did not want Hitler there at all, but Hitler used the his death as a propagadna tool, althouhg Hitler never spoke at the funeral.

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[Coyle]

Sounds like the consensus is bouncing between Obama, Lincoln, and Hitler, which is an interesting trio ("axis"? :) to lump together...
But I'll go off the beaten path and guess Charles Finney talking about Andrew Jackson

[Marv]

No fair, you altered the wording....dincha? Okay, so I cheated and googled.

[Kylein WI]

Reich in english does mean nation/empire.

[Stephen]

If it's Third Reich, I'd plump for Paul von Hindenburg, the President in 1933, or Braun, the rightish Catholic Chancellor up until months before Hitler was let in.

But as an Englishman, I'm thinking English Republic, not Cromwell, but someone around him, either about Charles I or about Cromwell.

[John Yeazel]

Kyle,

It probably is Ludendorff- I tried doing a quick study of him and did not spend enough time to put the pieces together. From what I know and have read of Bonhoeffer I cannot see him using such inflammed and "prophetic" rhetoric. Ludendorff was probably insane like Hitler but to a much lesser degree- more consistent with his beliefs and less opportunistic.