General Paul von Hindenburg, 1914 (HD)

This rare and remarkable footage follows von Hindenburg, beginning in 1914 when the 66-year-old served as Germany’s Chief of General Staff in World War I. It includes battle scenes as well as those with him in strategy sessions with other officers and in the field with German troops. Following the war, von Hindenburg was twice elected President of Germany. During his second term, under pressure, he appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor and several scenes show him with Hitler where von Hindenburg’s dislike for the man he called a “Bohemian Corporal” is obvious. The footage concludes in 1933, one year before von Hindenburg’s death. This was scanned from 7 minutes and 18 seconds of silent 16mm B&W print film shot at 18fps.

[@deltakappa4970]

Er war nie ein Nazi....
05:48

[@awc6007]

Hindenburg really is a legend

[@andreeodisk5458]

Der beste Präsident, den unsere deutsche Nation je hatte! Er war kein böser Mensch. Er liebte uns Deutsche!

[@Honecker89]

Bismarck kann er trotzdem nicht das Wasser reichen und Ludendorff hat ihn verflucht für seine nicht vorhandene Weitsicht was Hitler betraf. Er war kein schlechter Mensch aber hat mit einer falschen Entscheidung alles zerstört was bis heute hätte bestand haben können.

[@joshuahernandezratia5817]

He would be turning in his grave if he knew about the anti-patriotic weaklings who have held the office of president after his death.

[@alfredbernasek3912]

EIN GROSSARTIGES ZEITDOKUMENT

[@louisxxx0073]

Er war Oberhaupt der Reichswehr und nicht der Wehrmacht

[@robertstewart6956]

So sad that White Europeans were fighting and killing each other. We created and accomplished so much over the centuries of conflict over religion, dynasty, the balance of power, and politics, think of how much more we might have accomplished had we not been battling each other....But, perhaps, conflict and struggle were the impetus of our creativity, innovation, and accomplishment...

[@adamnoman4658]

Robert Stewart : If genocidal self-slaughter was the price, then Ezra Pound was right in his "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" :
"There died a myriad,
And of the best, among them,
For an old bitch gone in the teeth,
For a botched civilization. ...
For two gross of broken statues,
For a few thousand battered books."
That said, everything one may have ever thought the Nazis invented in the Third Reich had already been invented by von Hindenburg and Ludendorff during the Great War. Interesting how at the Tanneberg anniversary Hitler is dressed as a mere fawning civilian politician.
PS. @ 1 40 : Is that a little "baby" Roman salute thrown by Hindenburg circa 1918?

[@elrjames7799]

@@adamnoman4658 Good depth with Pound, but do you mean to imply that PvH was actually a fascist sympathizer (collaborator)?

[@elrjames7799]

@Robert Stewart. 'We': (assumption of primary approbation) seems a flawed implication (premise), so isn't what you've written to follow simply 'begging the question', rather than either a logical or sound corollary ?

[@shahidkhattak7271]

My late father WWII used to tell me about this great general

[@МаксимС-в4с]

музыкальный ряд здесь совсем ни к месту

[@lebensbornguardianazis3907]

Lo Matadeiro del Tanemberg😆

[@asengeorgiev5834]

The stop the war effort at this time was really stupid!

[@asengeorgiev5834]

The marsileese?

[@gaygambler]

Nice 1812 overture 👍