On the night of Feb. 27, 1933, an arsonist attacked the Reichstag, Germany’s historic parliamentary building. It was a ...

Germany has had a total of 13 presidents, such as Friedrich Ebert, Paul von Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler, Karl Dönitz, Theodor ...

Interestingly, though the Hindenburg founder did not mention a specific reason for the decision to shut down, it comes before President Biden's term ends and Donald Trump takes over. The US market ...

Hitler was a sore loser. In April 1932, he stood for the presidency against president Hindenburg, who won comfortably by millions of votes. Hitler claimed that the election had been stolen and ...

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 ...

Ryback focuses on a single year, 1932; in the July elections, Hitler’s party won a slim plurality but not a majority, and Paul von Hindenburg, Germany’s president, refused to appoint him ...

19 Aug 1934 Hitler became Führer: when Hindenburg died, Hitler declared himself jointly president, chancellor and head of the army. Members of the armed forces had to swear a personal oath of ...

He could not get the Reichstag to agree to his actions, so President Hindenburg used Article 48 to pass the measures by decree. Anger and bitterness helped the Nazis to gain more support.