the October reform

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When Ludendorff came to realise that an allied invasion of germany would lead to destructive internal disturbances, he pushed for political change. Ever since Imperial Germany was created it had been an autocracy (a system where one person has absolute rule). Now Ludendorff wanted to change Germany into a constitutuinal monarchy (where the monarch has limited power within the lines of a constitution) through the kaisers handing over political power to a civillian government. So he aimed to establish a more democratic government while maintaining the German monarchy.

Ludendorffs political turnaround had two aims

1) He wanted to secure the best possible terms from the Allies for Germany- it was believed that the Allied leaders would be more sympathetic to a democratic regime in Berlin. 

2) He hoped the change would prevent the outbreak of political revolutionary disturbances. 

Ludendorff had a 3rd more cynical motive. He saw…

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