Hindenburg Programme
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The Hindenburg Programme of August 1916 is the name given to the decision by Erich Ludendorff
to double German industrial production to greatly increase munitions.
The plan required enormous infrastructural investment and consequently soldiers were taken from the front line; 1.2 million in September 1916 and a further 1.7 million in July 1917.
Men, horses and fuel were taken from agricultural production for the army and munitions, which resulted in food shortages and high food prices, leading to the close of 1918 seeing Germany on the verge of starvation.
Erich Ludendorff
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff was a German general, victor of Liège and of the Battle of Tannenberg...
to double German industrial production to greatly increase munitions.
The plan required enormous infrastructural investment and consequently soldiers were taken from the front line; 1.2 million in September 1916 and a further 1.7 million in July 1917.
Men, horses and fuel were taken from agricultural production for the army and munitions, which resulted in food shortages and high food prices, leading to the close of 1918 seeing Germany on the verge of starvation.