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Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934)

, ignored threefolding, and accepted the post-Versailles political settlement that produced Hitler.Kühlmann, the operational embodiment of the German military elite that displaced LudendorffGerman Chief of the General Staff August 1916; Reich President 1925-1934; the figure who named Hitler Chancellor January 30, 1933. The "glory-covered field marshal" whose mendacious October 1917 speech Steiner cited as exemplifying the German political class's hollow phraseology. Died August 2, 1934. Together with