Hitler met privately with Hindenburg for over an hour.

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The German Army maintained its frontline over the winter of 1916-17, before withdrawing from the Somme battlefield in February 1917 to the fortified Hindenburg Line.

In early June 1934, defence minister Werner von Blomberg, on Hindenburg's behalf, issued an ultimatum to Hitler: unless political tension ended in Germany, Hindenburg would likely declare martial law and turn over control of the country to the army.

The Allies eventually breached the Hindenburg Line by 5 October, and the war was essentially over.

After Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff replaced the more ineffectual Erich von Falkenhayn at the General Staff in the summer of 1916, his hopes for American President Woodrow Wilson's mediation at the end of 1916 came to nothing, and, over Bethmann Hollweg's objections, Hindenburg and Ludendorff forced the adoption of unrestricted submarine warfare in March 1917, which led to the United States's entry into the war the next month.

Brüning agonized over how to stem the growing Nazi tide, especially since Hindenburg could not be expected to survive another full term as president should he choose to run again.

After two rounds of voting Hindenburg was re-elected with a substantial majority over his main opponent Adolf Hitler.

During the German elections of 1932 Mackensen supported Hindenburg over Adolf Hitler, but following the latter's accession to power Mackensen became a visible, if only symbolic, supporter of the Nazi regime.

In 1914 during World War I a German army under the command of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg won an important victory over two Russian armies in the Second Battle of Tannenberg ( which actually took place closer to Olsztyn-then known as Allenstein-but was named as " Tannenberg " by the victorious Germans for propaganda purposes, to cast it as revenge for their medieval defeat ) who had invaded East Prussia.

Exacerbating the problem, the Germans were trying to advance over areas which had been devastated during the Battle of the Somme in 1916 or to which the Germans themselves had applied scorched earth techniques during their retreat to the Hindenburg line in February – March 1917, where communications were difficult.

Hindenburg and Ludendorff rejected the offer, because, after victory over Russia, they again believed themselves to be in a stronger position.

* The Nazi Party requisitions the dirigibles Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg to conduct leaflet-dropping propaganda flights over Germany to garner support for Hitlers planned remilitarization of the Rhineland.

Kathie Rauch from Milwaukee, Wisconsin sends a letter to the German Embassy in Washington, D. C. claiming the Hindenburg zeppelin will explode after flying over New York.

The disaster scene ends when the camera pans over wreckage, towards a strip of burning fabric that says " Hindenburg " on it.

Hoffmann was then able to devise a plan for an encirclement victory over Alexander Samsonov's Second Army in the south ; which Hindenburg quickly put into action upon his arrival, leading to the Battle of Tannenberg.

In early June, Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg decided that unless Hitler did something to end the growing political tension in Germany, he would declare martial law and turn over control of the government to the army.

The decision to build the line was made by Field-Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and General Erich Ludendorff, who had taken over command of Germany's war effort in August 1916, during the final stages of the First Battle of the Somme.

* April 25, 1925 Second round of presidential elections: Paul von Hindenburg, the canditate of the right wing parties, wins over Wilhelm Marx, candidate of the Centre party

* Apr 10, 1932 Hindenburg reelected to Reichspresident with over 40 % of the vote.

It was awarded only twice, over a century apart, to Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher in 1813 and to Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg in 1918.

Having received the Distinguished Service Order in 1917 for his actions at the Battle of Polygon Wood, Wark was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1918 for his leadership and gallantry when in temporary command of his battalion over a three-day period, while conducting operations against the Hindenburg Line.

Promoted major on 12 July, he rejoined his battalion later in the month, and during the 4th Brigade's advance to the Hindenburg Line over subsequent months, was involved in actions at Messines, Ploegstreert Wood, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle and Passchendaele.

Zabrze ( German: 1915-1945: Hindenburg O. S., full form: Hindenburg in Oberschlesien, 1905-1915: Zabrze, Silesian: Zobrze ) is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice.

Dedicated by Hindenburg on the 10th anniversary of the battle of Tannenberg in 1924 near Hohenstein ( Ostpreußen ) ( now Olsztynek, Poland ), the structure, which was financed by donations, was built by the architects Johannes and Walter Krüger of Berlin and completed in 1927.

Winston Churchill considered him to be the ablest by far of the German generals in World War I. Dupuy also ranks him near the top of the German commanders, just below Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff ( The Encyclopedia of Military History, p. 915 ).

Thus, the Germans decided to pull out of the St. Mihiel Salient and consolidate their forces near the Hindenburg Line.

The Hindenburg Line near Bullecourt, seen from the air

Image: 46th division DSC03145. JPG | 46th Division Memorial near Bellenglise ( Hindenburg Line )

On the evening of 5 May 1917, the battalion returned to their barricades on the Hindenburg Line, near Fontaine-les-Croisilles, France.

Soon after his Victoria Cross action, he was promoted to major and earned a Bar to his Distinguished Service Order during an attack on the Hindenburg Line near Bullecourt.

South of the British Expeditionary Forces, the French First Army approached the Hindenburg Line on the outskirts of Saint Quentin during the Battle of Savy-Dallon () ( 10 September ), and the French Tenth Army approached the Hindenburg Line near Laon during the Battle of Vauxaillon () ( 14 September ).

It was one of three bridges built to improve railway links between Germany and France during World War I, the other two being the Hindenburg Bridge at Bingen am Rhein and Urmitz Bridge near Koblenz.

LZ 129 Hindenburg | Hindenburg at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, 1936

* 1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

* May 6 – Hindenburg disaster: In the United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

LZ 129 Hindenburg | Hindenburg at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, 1936

This restriction was dropped for special occasions, as in the case of the German dirigible airship Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey, in 1937.

The Hindenburg disaster, occurred on May 6, 1937, the German zeppelin Hindenburg arriving from Frankfurt am Main caught fire at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station.

The township is noted for containing the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, the site of the infamous Hindenburg disaster of May 6, 1937.

Fire-damaged Duralumin cross brace from the Zeppelin airship LZ 129 Hindenburg | " Hindenburg " ( DLZ129 ) salvaged from its crash site at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey | NJ on May 6, 1937.

However the age of the dirigible ended following the destruction by fire of the zeppelin Hindenburg just before landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937, killing 35 of the 97 people aboard.

* May 6 – The Hindenburg disaster occurs when the German dirigible Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed at the end of a transatlantic flight while attempting to dock with a mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

* Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, the location of the Hindenburg Disaster

As the Hindenburg makes its way to Lakehurst Air Field, events conspire against Ritter and Vogel.

Thereafter, DELAG used both the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg for regular scheduled passenger services across the North Atlantic, from Frankfurt-am-Main to Lakehurst.

On May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg disaster took place two hours before air time, and The March of Time created a segment that focused on the history of airship travel and ended with the news of the disaster in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

Shot at Lakehurst, New Jersey at the hangar that would house the U. S. Navy and later the Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg.