Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Secretary Wallace mobilized his followers for another battle, not against nature this time but against public opinion hostile to the New Deal's treatment of the agricultural crisis. As the great defensive system of the Germans during the War was the Hindenburg Line, so AAA last week relied on its own chief defense...
...butchers and promised them safe entry into Germany. This blunder was irretrievable but it gave intuitive Chancellor Hitler one of his bright ideas. He has long been looking for a way to ease German Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, protégé and "best comrade" of President von Hindenburg, out of his Cabinet (TIME, July 9). Impulsively Chancellor Hitler dashed off an effusive letter, "requesting you, Dear Herr von Papen to aid ... in [bringing] back to normal and friendly paths our long unfortunate relations to the German Austrian State. ... I have, therefore, . . . proposed to the Reichspräzident [von Hindenburg] that...
According to Chancellor Hitler he was and is the champion of the career Reichswehr generals and President von Hindenburg. The nefarious plotters, he said, included onetime Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher, Reichswehr careerist par excellence, Captain Roehm and "a foreign diplomat." Simple Storm Troopers, declared the Chancellor, knew nothing of this plotted coup against the Reichswehr. They naively supposed that what was wanted was a "new and in this case a bloody uprising?'The Night of the Long Knives'?as it was gruesomely described...
Vote for the Kaiser's Henchman? Vote for the Profiteer's Friend? Vote for the Hangman of Democracy? If you would elect all four VOTE FOR HINDENBURG...
Today Adolf Hitler, except that he is no Kaiser's henchman, has fulfilled most of the sardonic 1925 reasons for voting-or not voting-for Hindenburg. The President votes for Hitler-that is, last week he endorsed the blood bath in a personal telegram to his Chancellor and last week his knobby old fingers steadied but scarcely guided the helm...