Hindenburg Enjoys 86th Birthday At Home in Prussia

(9 Oct 1933) STORY
Aged German President keeps occasion quietly among his own folk.
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[@hermanator74301]

Imagine an 86-year-old with grandchildren that young!

[@gustavabensberg4260]

Deutsche Qualität

[@BigWheel.]

People often waited until they were in the full swing of their adult lives before having children, especially the wealthy. Now it is more common to have kids in your early 20s or younger. I have classmates from high school who had children barely a year after graduating. There were girls in my sophomore class who had one year olds too. And they felt that it was fine and normal.

[@steven_2005-z4f]

An 86 year old’s grandkids should be teenagers or young adults.

[@hofnarrtheclown]

​@@steven_2005-z4fNo If You're A 86 Year Old Grandpa Then Your Grandchildrens Should Be In Thier 30's 40's And Even 50s If You're Lucky In Being One Of The Young Grandpas

[@HJ-bd6mb]

My 90 year old grandparents had grandchilden between the ages of 3 to 40 by the time they died

[@Sameoldfitup]

"The German people are in favour of all possible means to make war impossible. I have seen three wars. A man who has seen three wars never will wish another war. He must be a friend of peace." Paul von Hindenburg.

[@OtaBengaBokongo]

Hitler had seen just one war (WW1), so nobody can blame him for starting his second.one.

[@zeckenlausimspeckmantel1568]

@@ohio Started..Yes..BUT not started entirely voluntarily..warmongers like churchill WANTED THE WAR!

[@gurjeetsingh-gd1wr]

@@zeckenlausimspeckmantel1568 and that is why he attacked Czech, poland, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium,france, ussr, greece, Yugoslavia, uk etc ,ha ha ha

[@gurjeetsingh-gd1wr]

@@zeckenlausimspeckmantel1568 such a peaceful man ,such a peaceful speaker etc,lol

[@jamahariya]

@@zeckenlausimspeckmantel1568 You are right.

[@antiantifa1250]

So sweet seeing him with his grandchildren.

[@Cjnw]

#ANTIFALIVESMATTER‼️‼️

[@armincuc3356]

Get this stupid shit out

[@shivmalik9405]

@@Cjnw Delete this stupid statement. What does it have to do with the comment

[@derlasercrafterwally4342]

Does his family still live today?

[@nickvonhindenburg8788]

@@derlasercrafterwally4342 I am his great, great-grandson

[@flybeep1661]

His last birthday, he'd never reach 87.

[@gluemuncher1986]

Can you imagine someone informing him today what had happened after his death? He would widen his eyes and say, “Holy shit.”

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Kelby Edmonson - „Heilige Scheiße!“

[@ottokar1872]

At his funeral Feldmarshall had wanted only kaiserreich flags no hakenkreuzfahnen . so did was.

[@pzkpfwviausfh3517]

@@ohio I actually read that Hindenburg used to wear all of his awards when in presence of Hitler (Who only wore a Wounded badge in iron and an iron cross 2nd class) to ridicule the "lucky corporal".

[@fritzlang4941]

@@ohio good thing Germany was raped by Versailles without Hitler in charge. But does not make a difference to you cnuts who don't know history.

[@brandenburg2388]

Paul von Hindenburg was such a fine exemplary man. He is truly missed by millions today....

[@JMARCO-ty2ow]

Prussian elders were very good shaped, like Hindenburg, Mackensen and Lettow-Vorbeck

[@careliacarelita2294]

The old lion!...""🇩🇪🦁👊

[@pb7784]

Herrliche Zeiten!

[@flybeep1661]

Interbellum?? Rise of Nazism? NO FUCKIN WAY.

[@pb7784]

@@flybeep1661 Hier wird DEUTSCH gesprochen

[@realtk6482]

@@pb7784 Hahahhaha genau Kamerad

[@realtk6482]

@@flybeep1661 Hat nix mit Nazis zu tun. Hindenburg war gegen Hitler, er musste jedoch ihn zum Reichskanzler ernennen da der Druck aus dem Volk zu groß wurde.

[@pb7784]

@@realtk6482 Pass gut auf, die kommen wieder, dann hat sich's ausgelacht.

[@oslopedroza2181]

Tenho estudado a vida do Sr Hindenburg, um líder impressionante...mas, algo que o homem pode conquistar e ter uma família...os netos e filhos o calor familiar...

[@urlaubsman1638]

Der Held von Tannenberg!

[@cleristonnaylon7378]

#riphindenburg (1847-1934)

[@lukefriesenhahn8186]

Herr Hindenburg was a true gentleman. He loved the way of life for the German people, and loved his country to the fullest. When I say he was a true gentleman, he was a great example to live by, which is why I try to be at least a bit like him.

[@ChatGPt2001]

His birthday is on October 2, 1847. If it were the 86th birthday celebration, it would have taken place in the year 1933. Paul von Hindenburg served as the President of Germany from 1925 to 1934. It's important to note that he played a significant role in German politics during a crucial period, including appointing Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933. However, he passed away on August 2, 1934, and therefore, he would not have celebrated an 86th birthday.

[@marksmale827]

Don’t forget that he refused twice to appoint Hitler chancellor, distrusting and disliking him.

[@poderosoeuropeo3852]

Honor!!!

[@cristianiiv6418]

wtf a legit NS?

[@joaogabrielimperial7777]

​@@cristianiiv6418why? hindenburg was hitler enemy and when he dies NS raised

[@l.lawliet164]

He looks so sad even with all this people cheering him up, he knows they lose the war and he feels really deep sad for that.

[@TariqMahmood-dx6uf]

At the age of 86 he can not dance for a person like you to make you realize he is ok and not sad.

[@ottovonbismarck4561]

Happy Birthday dear friend

[@sparrow9004]

It's very cute his grandchildren..

[@user-xe5sb2pq6b]

Fieldmarshal, stil Fieldmarshal at 86. Great person.

[@GeneralPlompie]

Gutentag, jungs.

[@sparrow9004]

The start of the music sounds, like star wars theme song..

[@elrjames7799]

It's puzzling why PvH ever appointed Hitler to the chancellorship in the first place. He could've imposed martial law after the nature of the NAZI regime became apparent, except that he was advised the Army couldn't defend the frontiers of the Reich at the same time as suppressing internal paramilitaries. When President PvH appointed Hitler as Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Ludendorff sent him a telegram: "[you've] just handed over our sacred German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I prophesy to you this evil man will plunge our Reich into the abyss and will inflict immeasurable woe on our nation."

[@Albrecht777]

He didn't live long enough to see the true nature of the NS regime. When Hitler visited him in 1934 after the so-called "Röhm Putsch" (cunningly beating von Papen to it), Hindenburg was so far gone that he didn't even know who Hitler was. He passed away soon after.

[@elrjames7799]

@@Albrecht777 Plausible. Are you alluding to the broadcast speech written for Papen?

[@Albrecht777]

@@elrjames7799 Excuse me. I had the Röhm-Putsch in my mind, as it happened soon after. However, I was indeed alluding to the speech written for Papen by Edgar Jung, who became a victim of the shootings carried out due to the so-called "Röhm-Putsch". It is also worth noting that Hindenburg consistently refused to appoint Hitler as Chancellor, even at the high point of NS electoral success in summer 1932. Hindenburg referred to AH as the "Bohemian private", initially mistakenly thinking that he came from Braunau in Bohemia, not Austria. He also said that he would not entrust the man with a position in a post office, let alone anything more. However, Franz von Papen and those around him managed to convince Hindenburg at the start of 1933 that they could control Hitler, fence him in, and use his mass support for their own ends. Papen was an arch-enemy of Kurt von Schleicher, and was effectively intriguing against him (although Schleicher was gifted in this respect, too). It's easy to say with the benefit of hindsight that Hindenburg shouldn't have appointed AH as Chancellor. However, that would have been anti-constitutional after Schleicher submitted his resignation. It also would have ignored AHs (still strong) mass support. One should further not forget that Hitler had dialled back his radicalism and anti-Semitism since 1930, leading people like Papen to believe that he had become more moderate and could be hedged in by those like himself. This also meant that no-one could foresee what lay on the cards with a Hitler chancellorship, and Papen believed (with some justification) that AH would be gone in a few months, like so many chancellors before him, anyway. There was no love lost between Hindenburg and Hitler, and Hindenburg only grudgingly allowed him to be convinced by Papen and his clique. Watch the videos where AH gives the "German greeting" (Nazi salute) in Hindenburg's presence. Hindenburg never once does the same. Papen, of course, tried to justify his actions after 1945, whereas Hindenburg, as mentioned above, had already passed away in 1934.

[@Albrecht777]

Sorry, another aside. Papen's speech was held at Marburg University and, to my knowledge, was not broadcast. Apparently, he hadn't even read the content of what Jung had written for him until he was on the train, when it was too late to change things. The National Socialists managed to stop widespread reporting of the speech, although, if I recall correctly, a Frankfurt newspaper was quick enough to get a story about it out there. Supposedly, when Papen appeared for the first time in public later, he was greeted with rapturous applause and positive comments due to the "Marburger Rede".

[@elrjames7799]

@@Albrecht777 Good extra info; thank you.

[@scheunenfund6449]

Sehr gut das auch in Grossbritanien Filme über den zweiten deutschen Reichspräsidenten gezeigt werden.

[@lebensbornguardianazis3907]

Que ano foi esse aniversario?..😉

[@jacquelinebridou4099]

1933

[@lebensbornguardianazis3907]

@@jacquelinebridou4099 año del ascecion del furer*a chanceller🎃

[@alfredbernasek6761]

EIN GIGANT

[@ricardolopez1228]

🤚🤚

[@eniuthegamer]

today Poland (his palace today is in Warmińsko Mazurskie voivodeship)

[@JudasPriestSUCKS]

🤮🤮🤮

[@wolterzz3267]

Man, to think he was in a higher position and couldn't do anything to stop Hitler...

[@fritzlang4941]

Sure the Allies would never have waged war against Germany, just like in WW1. Oh,wait...

[@dieterkaub8926]

Das alte Preußen...

[@russiaexitcrimea2203]

Prussia?

[@rainerzufall6245]

Opening music sounds like Star Wars or Superman. Pick one. 🤔

[@carlosidaaustria4446]

Hurrah!

[@Odinokiy-410]

86-летний 2-ух метровый дед с шикарными усами.

[@SoftPillow501]

🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪

[@keville1896]

Was ist das für ein Geburtstagsständchen?

[@MrJohann1900]

Ein feste burg ist unser gott.

[@delachambrearnaud1291]

1934 ! hindenburg du haut de ses 86 ans allait partir .

[@alfredbernasek3912]

PAUL DER GROSSE

[@MrBorish123]

They also shout horrah!! Wtf

[@CpKreFLeX]

What’s so astonishing?

[@Octopetala]

@@CpKreFLeX maybe he is american and think's the US marines started with the "hoo-rah" stuff lol

[@pacajalbert9018]

práve dnes je v Rusku už druhý brexit po 1989

[@andrzejzuchow7084]

Polexit.

[@minimax9452]

go - please go! All the best from germany!

[@chrissheppard5068]

..and he gave the keys of government to Hitler.

[@bismarck6093]

The army trusted Hitler. Paul von Hindenburg couldn't do anything.

[@chrissheppard5068]

@@bismarck6093 After Czechoslovakia and then the defeat of France before this they were very scared of him getting into another war.

[@daucuscarota6602]

@@bismarck6093 No, no, that had nothing to do with the Army. Hindenburg personally disliked Hitler at first. They were totally different personalities. Hindenburg, a Prussian aristocratic General, a Protestant, and for many the impersonification of Prussian virtues - discipline, modesty, restraint, sincerity, self-restraint ...) and on the other side Hitler, the Austrian Corporal, coming from a Catholic background, in his speeches loud, aggressive, boasting ... But Hindenburg was ill-advised - to a large extent by his own son Oskar von Hindenburg - and finally believed that the Nazis would revive again the spirit of his beloved Prussia - nothing further from the truth. In hin speech he says: "Unser teures deutsches und preußisches Vaterland: Hurra, Hurra, Hurra!" (Our beloved German and Prussian Fatherland: Hurrah, Hurrah, Hurrah!). For many Germans he was an adored father figure, an "Ersatzkaiser" (Kaiser substitute).

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@ozshaul5687 Correct

[@jayvoke188]

Hindenburg's birthday. I wonder if he got a lot of gift certificates for free Zeppelin ride?

[@Neo2266.]

🅱russia

[@andymurday4538]

Has the look of a dictator

[@JICKY2.0]

Fortunately then he died, and God put the Greatest Man of all time in his place

[@bigkozlov]

Nice guy... but let's not forget his last choice for Germany's Chancellor

[@JamesRichards-mj9kw]

It was not his choice.

1:28 This was already a heil. Too bad for people trust in 1 person.

[@neinnein9306]

Can't see clear "Heil" arm movements here. And the people shout "Hurra!" instead. The hands are not stretched out.

@@neinnein9306 Come on, it is almost the same thing and gesture from blind people before a "leader".

[@neinnein9306]

@ Sure. But as an example: you can not take some people greeting the Queen and say it's a Heil. She would be very angry. ^^

[@Cjnw]

And Trump's doing it *all over again!!*

[@derlasercrafterwally4342]

He said something like : "for our glorious Prussian and German fatherland" and everybody went like hooray Can't understand it correctly

[@MrDaiseymay]

The Prussian Army was the most belligerent ,uncivilised inhumane force in war. The terrible way they treated the poor peasants of occupied Belgium and Northern France during WW1, has shamefully been subdued by all so-called Historians.

[@neinnein9306]

Right. But in that case we should speak about the Imperial German Army. The original Prussian Army under Frederick the Great acted different. He ordered, that every chicken his soldiers take, must be paid for, just as an example. And I really don't know if it's really the most uncivilised inhumane force (?) Ever heard of SS, IS, Vietnam, Stalin's cleansings, Pinochet...? Do you really think WW1 German Army was much worser? At least, the French soldiers took bitter revanche towards the civilian population in the occupied parts of post war Germany. That is also a part of history, which has shamefully been subdued by all so-called Historians.

[@neinnein9306]

@Hissam Ullah LOL yes.. GB and FRA had 2/3 of the world and complained about GER being aggressive. ^^

[@sinphus]

Philip Croft well the British starved innocent German civilians

[@undrgrnd734]

@@neinnein9306 atrocities must be pointed out. Imperial German Army in world war 1, at least in the early stages, looted and raped their way through belgium. Belgians cut off the hands of africans in the congo and the french none the better in their own colonial holdings. They were all states capable of terrible things and I agree that to the point that they aren't the most terrible force of war but their atrocities must be pointed out.

[@neinnein9306]

@@undrgrnd734 That's fine. We can meet here. But that rape-thing is new for me.

[@joaogabrielimperial7777]

last breath of germany