The Great War

Season 5, Episode 42

Episode Title: The Battle of the Selle - Ludendorff Resigns - Week 221

Air Date: 2018-10-18

Overview:

As the Germans are retreating further and further during the Battle of the Selle, Erich Ludendorff – the German Quartermaster General, one half of Germany's military dictatorship and mastermind behind the last big German offensive in spring 1918 – resigns under pressure by the Kaiser and the Reichstag. The German upper class realizes that their days might be numbered if the war continues in the current form and Austria-Hungary's Emperor Karl has the same epiphany.