Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems that when Feldmarschall von Hindenburg was chosen President, an old friend of army days said to him: "What will you do when you get nervous, as you must often be, among all those politicians and with all your new responsibilities...
...When I am nervous," replied President-elect von Hindenburg, "I whistle...
Tale-Teller Herbert von Hindenburg, added: "My uncle was not boasting. I think it is true that no one has seen him nervous or heard him whistle, either as Feldmarschall or Reichspraesident...
...less pleasant echo of Wartime days came bellowing last week, from that brilliant yet brittle strategist General Erich von Ludendorff, once famed as the "Brains of Hindenburg." Today Ludendorff appears to be the victim of delusions of persecution and a strange religious mania. The too-brilliant, too-brittle brain has seemingly snapped at last...
...General has consistently criticized Feldmarschall von Hindenburg for that "disloyalty to our Kaiser" which he showed by allowing himself to be elected President. For at least three years the two old warriors have not met or spoken. Therefore it was all the more remarkable that Erich von Ludendorff appealed to Paul von Hindenburg to save him from the "pests...