Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pious Old Paul von Hindenburg grew so troubled by the Nazi v. non-Nazi schism in German Protestantism that Catholic Chancellor Hitler had to call on the Protestant President one day last week and personally assure him that somehow everything would come out all right...
...Berlin nearly every kiosk blossomed with a poster of Der Marschall und der Gefreite. Onetime Gefreite (lance-corporal) Adolf Hitler was shown in Nazi uniform, Feldmarschall von Hindenburg in the sack suit of a President. Together they appealed to all Germany in giant capitals to KAMPFEN MIT UNS FUR FRIEDEN UND GLEICHBERECHTIGUNG! ("Battle with us for peace and equality!"). The great plebiscite decreed by Chancellor Hitler to vindicate his withdrawal of Germany from the Disarmament Conference and resignation from the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 23 et seq.) was on. Adolf Hitler, born an Austrian, was about to make good...
...final trump Chancellor Hitler played a gruff, five minute radio speech to the Fatherland by President von Hindenburg. "It is a lie, it is a vilification," rumbled der Feldmarschall, "if the outside world imputes warlike intentions to us [but] true peace can be achieved only on the basis of equality. Let your votes be a profession with me and with the Chancellor for the principle of equality and for peace with honor...
...firebugs escaped through the Reichstag's famed underground passage leading to the house of the Speaker, who was then Göring himself? Could he make plausible the Nazi charge that Communists set a fire which provided Chancellor Hitler with the opportunity to rush straight to President von Hindenburg, obtain dictatorial powers on the plea of national emergency and proceed to suppress first the Communist Party and later all others except his own? In Berlin last week General Göring, famed for his dashing appearances at Nazi rallies in swank uniforms created by himself, chose to appear before...
...Germany must have Hindenburg. He is a symbol," declared the speaker in answer to a question concerning what influence the President exerted. "Germany has always had Hindenburgs. There were Hindenburgs in the Middle Ages; during the period of the Kaisers there were Hindenburgs. Now there are two--Hindenburg and Hitler...