Andreas Dorpalen
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Professor of History, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1958β78. Author of Hindenburg and the Weimar Republic.
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Paul von Hindenburg was a German field marshal during World War I and the second president of the Weimar Republic (1925β34). His presidential terms were wracked by political instability, economic depression, and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, whom he appointed chancellor in 1933. Hindenburg wasβ¦
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