Post-war Activity
Ludendorff was largely sidelined after her husband's 1937 death, as Adolf Hitler had long since broken from the general. She continued to express anti-Semitic ideas after the war and was found guilty during the Denazification process, although her judgement was lessened in 1951.
In 1955 she founded a Schule für Gotterkenntnis to propagate her religious beliefs, although the related Bund für Gotterkenntnis was ordered dissolved in 1961 after being judged unconstitutional. The latter movement, the origins of which could be traced back to 1951, had as many as 12,000 members before the judgement of the Bavarian Administrative Court banned it. She died five years after the judgement. In 1977 -- because of procedural errors -- the ban was lifted, though it remains under observation of several constitutional protection agencies. In a reduced form it survives to this day.
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