“No taxation without representation!” was the battle cry of the American Revolution. Last week His Excellency General Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, President of the Reich, imposed upon ...

President Paul von Hindenburg today definitely declined to entrust the Chancellorship of the Reich to Adolph Hitler, head of the National Socialist Party. The decision of the president was made known ...

Not many imps of spleen and spite have ever gotten under the armored skin of President von Hindenburg. But once a little clubfoot in his Nazi newsorgan taunted Paul von Beneckendorff und von ...

On the eleventh of November 1918, the most deadly conflict the world has seen up until that point was coming to an end. Over 9 million combatants had died, and the total death toll exceeded sixteen ...

Last Friday, I released a video about the life of Paul von Hindenburg, and to give you a spoiler if you missed it: one of the battles that made him into a living legend, was the Battle of Tannenberg ...

Documents indicating President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s and German President Paul von Hindenburg’s concern over the Nazi treatment of Jews were contained in a new volume of captured German documents ...

ON the night of August 29, 1914, a German writer strolled into the office of a newspaper of Hamburg to learn the news from the front. The day’s bulletin of the General Staff had just arrived, with the ...

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