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Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg: My late departed father always recognized Adolf Hitler as his immediate successor. . . . Thus there comes to you, O German people, from the Field Marshal's tower in the Tannenberg Monument [tomb of von Hindenburg] this call: "Rally around and stand united behind Germany's Leader! Let all the world know that an indissoluble tie firmly unites the German people...
...Paul's funeral, shushed his son Col. Oscar von Hindenburg who wished the burial to take place in the family plot at Neudeck in East Prussia, and announced the von Hindenburg bones will lie in the Field Marshal's Tower of the huge, ugly, fortress-like memorial at Tannenberg. "Men only will be permitted to attend the funeral service," announced Dr. Goebbels. Correspondents were given privately to understand that it would be inappropriate for a German hero's obsequies to be marred by wailing women...
...pudgy-jowled monster. The other was a meek-looking infant with bangs. The ugly picture had a credit line - Acme Photo. The other one was credited to the German consulate in Chicago. Below the pictures was printed a copy of a letter from the Acting Consul General, Dr. Wilhelm Tannenberg, to the Tribune. Excerpts...
Germany's rebuttal was to hold two monster Nazi demonstrations, one near the Polish border on the battlefield of Tannenberg, the other near the French border at quiet little Rudesheim on the Rhine. By roaring 600 mi. across Germany in a fast plane. Handsome Adolf was able to appear and speak at both. At Tannenberg he presented to Old Paul von Hindenburg a tract of land adjacent to his Neudeck home; at Rudesheim he whooped it up for the Saar plebiscite of 1935 which may return the Saar Basin to Germany...
...Germany immediately wanted to know: If not von Hindenburg, whom would the Nazis support? They must have a hero, preferably a War hero, a man around whom could be thrown some of the glamour that attached itself to the Hero of Tannenberg. The Nazis had such a man: handsome, stern-faced Franz...