It has been said that the Weimar Republic died twice,” Timothy Ryback writes. “It was murdered, and it committed suicide.” In his new book, “Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power,” we know who the ...

The appointment of Adolph Hitler today following a conference with President Paul von Hindenburg, was as unexpected as the sudden fall of General Kurt von Schleicher after less than two months in ...

The most well known of the Zeppelin airships was named after former German President Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg. Also known as the LZ129, the 803 foot-long vessel was nearly four-times the ...

On the massive desk of old President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg last week lay a letter heavy with Dutch seals. It contained a dignified appeal from Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria ...

Some have even compared him to Paul von Hindenburg, the elderly German caretaker president who agreed to elevate Adolph Hitler to power in 1933. And while he should never have made the destructive ...

The military leadership—specifically Field Marshals Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff—convinced the German civilian government to sue for peace in the fall of 1918. An interpretive ...

Paul von Hindenburg took direct control of the German government in 1931 using the emergency powers allowed under the Weimar Constitution. He feared a seizure of power by Hitler, but came to ...

Wednesday marks the 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's attainment of power. It took the Führer just 12 years to plunge Europe into the darkest chapter of its history and unleash the Holocaust.