Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul von Hindenburg, last President of the German Republic really paved the way for the Nazi revolution, by refusing to allow Heinrich Bruening to accept the premiership of Prussia while still Chancellor of the Reich, Bruening charged yesterday, in his last Godkin lecture...
...Hindenburg then intrusted Herr Von Papen with the government although that cabinet had the confidence of only 10% of the members of the Reichstag. "The price which Hindenburg had to pay for the Nazi's support of Von Papen's cabinet, was that the President would allow the reestablishment of the Brown Shirts troops. These troops had been dissolved by me during the Prussian election," said Bruening, clearing up the question as to why the German President had ever allowed the return of the Storm Troopers...
...Bruening said that by giving Hitler complete power, Von Hindenburg had two hopes. "First, he thought it was the only way to maintain his own power, and secondly he hoped that it might lead to a restoration of the monarchy. In both, he was mistaken...
Berlin's Mayor since April 1931 has been hulking Dr. Heinrich Sahm-"Long Heinrich'' to Berliners. A favorite of old President Paul von Hindenburg and highly popular in Berlin, he is no Nazi at heart, has had most of his functions taken over by the Nazi Commissar for Berlin. Dr. Julius .Lippert. Last week, word went round the coffee houses that the Brown Shirts finally had got the Mayor. Up before a secret party court he was hauled, charged with high crime: not bribery, not corruption in office, but buying articles for his own use from...
...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...