Word: hindenburgs
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...Fedor von Bock's cosmos, the Fatherland remained constantly deathworthy; the Emperor was interchangeable with, successively, Weimar Republicanism, Hindenburg, the Führer. He was completely unpolitical: he never plotted, was never purged...
When Bruening faced a budget deficit, the Reichstag refused to support his demand for additional taxation. In desperation, the bespectacled Chancellor asked President von Hindenburg to issue an emergency edict under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution...
...first gun in the Bruening epoch of "government by presidential decree," which weakened parliamentary democracy and hastened the rise of Hitlerism. When the Reichstag rebuked him for these Notverordnungen, Bruening asked von Hindenburg to dissolve the parliament and call an election...
...weary Chancellor turned increasingly to decree-laws. To diminish unemployment, he asked the aged Hindenburg for a decree chopping up the Junker lauded estates and resettling jobless workers on them. The President, dominated by monocled aristocrats like Kurt von Schleicher, demanded the resignation of the "agrarian Bolshevik...
Papen found other allies. There was Hindenburg's "notoriously lazy" son, Oscar, who "enjoyed parties in a slow way." And there was Dr. Otto Meissner who "was to have the unique distinction of having served Socialist Ebert, Field Marshal Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler in the same confidential capacity, giving the same satisfaction to all three...