Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...servants say that Oscar must be nearly as old as the President's son, spruce Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg. With his nameless mate Oscar spends his winters in Africa, as do most East Prussian storks, but summer finds him always back at Neudeck to bring not babies but good luck to the 86-year-old Reichspräsident. In backward, superstitious East Prussia nothing is so unlucky for a great landed Junker as to lose his stork. "Take care of Oscar" the President benignly commands when leaving Neudeck, and Oscar, so peasants think, takes care of Old Paul...
Water, Wine & Order! Candles were winking in the old Neudeck manor house. When bristling Chancellor Hitler arrived in civilian clothes and sat down to dinner with President von Hindenburg, also in mufti and limping about on his cane. In a sense Neudeck is Nazidom's gift to the House of Hindenburg. Wealthy Junker admirers of Old Paul bought the estate and gave it in 1927 to Col. Oscar von Hindenburg, so that when the President died there would be no annoying inheritance tax. Later gifts of adjoining estates brought Old Paul's acres...
Hoch Siam! Hoch Siam! To take German minds off what the Chancellor was hatching every newsorgan in the Fatherland was ordered to play up as biggest news of the week a royal visit to President von Hindenburg by weak-eyed little King Prajadhipok of Siam and his equally short but amply curvesome Queen Rambui Barni. Oscar and the other venerable storks of East Prussia had not seen such pomp since Kaiser Wilhelm's day. Two private cars of the German State Railways sped Their Majesties out from Berlin, across the hated Polish Corridor (an emotional barrier...
...fashioned landauer. But for Royalty would this do? For Siam's little King, who dotes on the picturesque and is forever filming it with a Leica still camera and a Bell & Howell cinemachine. a landauer would have been just the thing. But swank Col. Oscar von Hindenburg insisted on a Mercedes. As the big car swept up to Neudeck an entire company of Reichswehr troops stood at wooden-soldier salute, flanked by peasants in bright, old-fashioned East Prussian costumes. Whrrrr went His Majesty's camera while the peasants roared: "Hoch Siam! Hoch Siam...
...examining a vast moated palace as grotesquely strange as some of the temples of Siam. "Really, you know." said King Prajadhipok. "I am very interested." In the visitors' book His Majesty dashed off a modest squiggle. less than a third the size of the eight-inch-wide VON HINDENBURG written by the President with a special monster pen which he carries for public autographing...