Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany, but at the sight of this one Berliners stopped, gaped, cheered. The Blatz Post American Legion Band of Milwaukee was the first to march behind the U. S. flag in Berlin since the War. When the bandsmen, with black crepe on their arms in honor of President von Hindenburg, reached the Sportpalast, largest auditorium in the city, 15,000 ticket holders shouted "hoch" and gave the Nazi salute...
President von Hindenburg (in a document which Colonel von Hindenburg produced last week as his father's political last will and testament): My Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, and his movement have taken a decisive stride of historical importance toward a great goal of leading the German people to inner unity regardless of differences of rank and class. I know much yet remains to be done, and from the bottom of my heart I wish that the act of National Regeneration and Unification may be followed by an act of Reconciliation to embrace the whole German Fatherland...
Even Paris agreed that it was a great Hitler speech. Orator Hitler played adroitly on the theme that revolution had been expected to break out in Germany upon the death of Hindenburg and that he had averted this catastrophe by prompt assumption of the President's powers...
With candor, real or assumed, Hitler said of Hindenburg: "After many battles he finally granted me his gracious friendship and thus founded a relationship which made me happy and was of the greatest help to the nation...
Leader Hitler scored a victory of 88.1% last week on the supremely personal issue of confirming him in the power of a Bismarck and a Kaiser and a Hindenburg rolled into one. This issue could scarcely be compared with that of last November when Chancellor Hitler won by 93.4% the approval of Germans for his policy of withdrawing from the Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations (TIME, Nov. 20). Nonetheless, anyone was privileged to say last week, and some did, that "opposition to Hitler has doubled"?i. e., the "noes" had risen from 4.9% to 9.9% in nine...