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...East Prussia, Reichsführer Hitler, Field Marshal von Mackensen and many another stood at attention in impressive ceremony as the body of Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg was transferred from a side tower of the massive Tannenberg war memorial to a permanent vault in the centre tower. Over the national hero's coffin lay the old German war flag with the iron cross on red, white and black. At half-mast everywhere else in Germany only the new Nazi swastika banner was allowed...
...last German who dared to flay the Nazi lunatic fringe was Franz von Papen, and President Paul von Hindenburg sent an Army detachment to guard his life during the ensuing "blood purge" (TIME, July 9, 1934). His career broken, von Papen became Minister to Austria. No sooner had Dr. Schacht spoken this week than Nazi local satraps began blustering against "reactionaries"?i. e. Schacht. All parts of his speech embarrassing to Nazis were omitted from German newsorgans by order of Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels. Sensing the showdown which cannot be put off forever, Germany...
Flush with profits, von Ribbentrop turned to dabbling in German politics at a period when any mention of Adolf Hitler would cause President von Hindenburg to snort: "I wouldn't appoint that Austrian poltroon so much as a postman!" Undismayed, Major von Ribbentrop kept dropping hints among Der Feldmarschall's military entourage that it might be the smart thing to make some sort of deal with Hitler. Finally in January 1933, at the home of Cologne Banker Franz von Schroeder, von Ribbentrop engineered the first meeting of Political Upstart Adolf Hitler and weak, perpetually scheming Lieut.-Colonel Franz...
...ballot but his words are long extended, for he was the "national collegiate oratorical champion" in 1916. Something of a poet and artist, he rates today among the most effective speakers in the House. For ten months during the War his oratory was confined to a trench opposite the Hindenburg Line. Fortnight ago when the War Profits Bill was before the House, his oratory burst forth to demand nationalization of munitions plants...
Asked by Washington newshawks if he had read the late Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg's War memoirs, which praised him highly. Lord Byng of Vimy, commander of Britain's 3rd Army in the War, replied: "I have read nothing about the War. In extenuation neither have I written anything about...