Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down the Wilhelmstrasse, into the German Chancellery went bristle-lipped Adolf Hitler last week. He was led into the former office of the late great Bismarck. Seated at the Iron Chancellor's old desk, his soft white hands folded before him, sat aged President Paul von Hindenburg. Near him stood smooth, grey Chancellor Franz von Papen and the State Secretary of the Reich, Dr. Otto Meissner...
President von Hindenburg hoisted his old frame half out of his chair...
...saturation point. German Republicans feel that it is really on the downgrade, pointed out last week that three months ago there must have been thousands of Germans who would have voted for Hitlerite Deputies when they would not vote for Adolf Hitler in opposition to the National Hero VON HINDENBURG...
...House, President von Hindenburg's comfortable, unpretentious summer home in Neudeck, East Prussia a solemn assemblage gathered last week. There was old Paul, grimly upright in his chair; Chancellor Franz von Papen, looking more like a startled police dog than, usual; bald, ever smiling Defense Minister von Schleicher; a few assistants. Gravely the old Field Marshal reached for a pen and signed a document which, informed observers believe, had been drawn up the week that Chancellor von Papen took office...
...gamble of the first magnitude ... an amazing act of resolution for a man of von Hindenburg's great age to have staked all in making von Papen?an untried man?dictator just to keep Hitler from power...