Word: beneckendorff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gentleman. After the war, Germany was not merely a house divided, but a house politically atomized. All that stood between the German people and collapse was an old gentleman of 80, himself close to death-President Paul von Beneckendorff & von Hindenburg. "He called the Cabinet his General Staff, and the Chancellor his Chief of Staff," but "cooperated with Parliament in the manner of an old gentleman who likes order in his household." By virtue of Paragraph 48 of the Weimar Constitution, his chancellor could issue decrees "on the sole sanction of the President's signature." If the Reichstag objected...