Word: hindenburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal Petain retains the innocuous title and role of Chief of State. Doubtless Pierre Laval would have no objection to the aged bulk of the Marshal walking, as Field Marshal von Hindenburg once walked, beside Adolf Hitler on the day of triumph...
...Captain Rosendahl and his followers will not be content with blimps. They are after giant 10,000,000-cubic-feet dirigibles (half again as large as the Hindenburg], airships that will cruise at 85 knots, serve as the battleships and plane carriers...
...Fedor von Bock's cosmos, the Fatherland remained constantly deathworthy; the Emperor was interchangeable with, successively, Weimar Republicanism, Hindenburg, the Führer. He was completely unpolitical: he never plotted, was never purged...
...first gun in the Bruening epoch of "government by presidential decree," which weakened parliamentary democracy and hastened the rise of Hitlerism. When the Reichstag rebuked him for these Notverordnungen, Bruening asked von Hindenburg to dissolve the parliament and call an election...
...weary Chancellor turned increasingly to decree-laws. To diminish unemployment, he asked the aged Hindenburg for a decree chopping up the Junker lauded estates and resettling jobless workers on them. The President, dominated by monocled aristocrats like Kurt von Schleicher, demanded the resignation of the "agrarian Bolshevik...