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...Schwerin a German railwayman named Ulrich Middelborg was executed for taking food from a freight car. At Hamburg an air-raid warden went to the gallows for taking a few yards of blackout cloth from a bombed house. At Hindenburg, in Upper Silesia, Bank Manager Georg Miethe was put to death for conversation which "failed to set an example of loyalty for his employes...
...chemist and a devout Roman Catholic, Max Jordan got his Ph.D. in religious philosophy at Jena, then got sidetracked into journalism and radio. He scored many radio scoops during ten years as NBC's European chief. He was the first broadcaster from Nazi-occupied Paris, from the Zeppelin Hindenburg over the Atlantic and the first to send the Munich Pact text...
...beneath a flaming canopy of torches. Leaning far out over the Reich's Chancellery balcony, Adolf Hitler, with sparkling eyes, watched them march past. Battalion after battalion swung by, bands crashing out the song Die Fahne Hoch. ... In a nearby window, a rocklike silhouette, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg gazed on the parade with age-dimmed eyes...
Social Democracy died; Otto Wels fled to Prague. Naziism rolled on. In June 1934, Hitler purged his Party ranks of dissidents, linked arms with big business and the military to give his government greater power. Hindenburg died; the Dictator became President. Wehrfreiheit was proclaimed-freedom to arm. A year after the new Wehrmacht was born, on March 7, 1936, a thin column of field-grey troops followed a blaring band across the Rhine to reoccupy the territories under French guard since Versailles. The officers carried in their pockets sealed orders to retreat if France resisted. France did not resist...
What was the age of Hindenburg atTannenberg? He had been recalled from retirement, and his age was 67, but he had four years of high command, ably conducted, before...