Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the Duke and Duchess were on vacation in England and so was the Private Secretary, Commander Henderson. Belatedly Sergeant Irvine, head of the Castle guard, went up on the roof to half-staff the flag of Northern Ireland for Germany's late, great President von Hindenburg. As he fiddled with the ropes Sergeant Irvine smelt smoke. It curled in tiny wisps from the apartments of the private secretary. As he raised the alarm crackling flames burst through. Before fire engines could travel the twelve miles from Belfast, Hillsborough Castle was leaping skyward in a vast, black swirl...
Resourceful Dr. Goebbels at once got out phonograph records of the speech in which President von Hindenburg asked Germans to vote Ja in the last plebiscite. when the issue was Adolf Hitler's break with the Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations (TIME, Nov. 20). From this record appropriate excerpts were transferred to a new disk for broadcasting, and all last week the dead Hindenburg campaigned for the live Hitler...
Speakers lined up by Dr. Goebbels to campaign for "My Leader" this week: Col. Oscar von Hindenburg; the Graf Zeppelin's Dr. Hugo Eckener; Wilhelm II's Nazi son Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm; German Olympic Games Heroes Hans Sievert (world's decathlon record holder) and Otto Peltzer (sprinter) ; Munitioneer Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. For the first time newsorgans announced that Adolf Hitler will speak not to the German people but to "his people...
...Leader" last week which might be considered vote-getting was to decree two amnesties, general and political, calculated to set free from jails and concentration camps some 100,000 Germans. Under the general amnesty, fines or prison sentences imposed up to the date of President von Hindenburg's death were cancelled: for first offenders where the fine was not more than 1,000 marks, the imprisonment not more than six months; for second offenders where the fine was not more than 500 marks, the imprisonment not more than three months...
Dallying in Berlin last week Minister von Papen sought to jack up his personal kudos by letting it be known that his appointment bears "the last signature of the sainted Feldmarschall von Hindenburg." This announcement he closed with a "Heil Hitler...