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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...
There were four steps in Papen's plan: 1) to win over Hindenburg; 2) to eliminate Bruening; 3) to eliminate the Reichswehr's "political general," Schleicher; 4) to eliminate Adolf Hitler...
...President. They also shared the same Junker ideal of life. They discussed their estates, they went shooting together, and spoke of the Kaiser as His Imperial Majesty. It was a well-known fact that nobody could make the Field Marshal laugh as heartily and as often as Fraenzchen." To Hindenburg, he was soon "a mixture of aide-de-camp, foster son and confidential adviser...
Rundstedt, the oldest, is also the best. Before the Nazis came to power, he was a stanch royalist, a faithful Hindenburg man. Now he is the Nazis' high priest of strategy. Belittlers of Chief of the High Command Wilhelm Keitel used to say that Keitel was such a coxcomb that he wouldn't even listen to Rundstedt. Rundstedt is easily the most experienced German commander. He alone of the present crop of generals was an Army Corps Chief of Staff in World War I. He will go down in German history as a hero because...
...Aluminum relics of the Navy's late dirigible Shenandoah turned up in Ohio where the airship crashed 16 years ago. Into a collection bin at Point Pleasant, N.J., went a fragment of the German Zeppelin Hindenburg, which burned at Lakehurst...