Frasi di Paul von Hindenburg

Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg è stato un generale e politico tedesco.Figura importante della prima guerra mondiale, esercitò il comando supremo dell'esercito tedesco sul fronte orientale, ottenendo notevoli vittorie contro i russi. Dal 1916, promosso feldmaresciallo, assunse la guida militare di tutte le forze del Reich, dirigendo, in collaborazione con il suo abile capo di Stato Maggiore generale Erich Ludendorff, lo sforzo bellico tedesco fino alla fine della guerra nel novembre 1918.

Godendo di grande fama e prestigio presso il popolo tedesco anche dopo la sconfitta, fu Reichspräsident della Repubblica di Weimar dal 1925 al 1934, anno della sua morte. Durante il suo secondo mandato presidenziale assistette agli eventi che condussero alla nascita del Terzo Reich hitleriano e in parte li avallò.

Hindenburg era un esponente dell'aristocrazia terriera prussiana ed era ritenuto un conservatore che auspicava una restaurazione della monarchia tedesca. Anche se sperava che uno dei principi Hohenzollern venisse nominato a succedergli come capo di Stato, non tentò di usare i suoi poteri in favore di una tale restaurazione e si considerò vincolato dal giuramento di fedeltà che aveva prestato alla Costituzione di Weimar.

Lo zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg portava tale nome in suo onore. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. Ottobre 1847 – 2. Agosto 1934
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Paul von Hindenburg: Frasi in inglese

“Prosperity can come through peace alone.”

Contesto: Prosperity can come through peace alone. The German people are in favor 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.
But I am not a pacifist. All my impressions of war are so bad that I could be for it only under the sternest necessity — the necessity of fighting Bolshevism or of defending one's country.

“Fundamentally, Britain is responsible for the war. She was jealous. British business men wanted this war. It is a British business war. … We have no dislike for France, nor Russia. We think highly of the French. But Britain! We hate Britain!”

Interview with Senator Beveridge (March 1915), Paul Dehn, Hindenburg, als Erzieher (1918), p. 43, quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 174
Supreme Commander of All German Forces in the East

“In the Great War ledger, the page on which the Russian losses were written has been torn out. No one knows the figure. Five or eight Million?”

As quoted in With Snow on Their Boots : The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France During World War I (1999) by Jamie H. Cockfield, p. 28
Undated

“Interview of 1929, as quoted in "Nations are greatly concerned over death of German President" in Berkeley Daily Gazette”

1 August 1934
Variant translation:
I am not a pacifist. That is not my attitude. But all my impressions of war are so bad that I could be for it only under the sternest necessity — the necessity of fighting Bolshevism or of defending one's country.
As quoted in TIME magazine (13 January 1930)
President

“Recently, a whole series of cases has been reported to me in which judges, lawyers, and officials of the Judiciary who are disabled war veterans and whose record in office is flawless, have been forcibly sent on leave, and are later to be dismissed for the sole reason that they are of Jewish descent.
It is quite intolerable for me personally…that Jewish officials who were disabled in the war should suffer such treatment, [especially] as, with the express approval of the government, I addressed a Proclamation to the German people on the day of the national uprising, March 21st, in which I bowed in reverence before the dead of the war and remembered in gratitude the bereaved families of the war dead, the disabled, and my old comrades at the front.
I am certain, Mr. Chancellor, that you share this human feeling, and request you, most cordially and urgently, to look into this matter yourself, and to see to it that there is some uniform arrangement for all branches of the public service in Germany.
As far as my own feelings are concerned, officials, judges, teachers and lawyers who are war invalids, fought at the front, are sons of war dead, or themselves lost sons in the war should remain in their positions unless an individual case gives reason for different treatment. If they were worthy of fighting for Germany and bleeding for Germany, then they must also be considered worthy of continuing to serve the Fatherland in their professions.”

Letter to Chancellor Adolf Hitler http://alphahistory.com/nazigermany/hindenburg-and-hitler-on-jewish-war-veterans/, (April 4th 1933)
President

“In case of a resumption of hostilities we are militarily in a position to reconquer, in the east, the province of Posen and to defend our frontier. In the west, we cannot, in view of the numerical superiority of the Entente and its ability to surround us on both flanks, count on repelling successfully a determined attack of our enemies. A favorable outcome of our operations is therefore very doubtful, but as a soldier I would rather perish in honor than sign a humiliating peace.”

Letter to Friedrich Ebert after the Treaty of Versailles was presented to Germany (17 June 1919), quoted in Andreas Dorpalen, Hindenburg and the Weimar Republic (Princeton University Press, 1964), p. 39 and John W. Wheeler-Bennett, The Nemesis of Power: The German Army in Politics 1918-1945 (London: Macmillan, 1964), p. 52
Chief of the German General Staff

“I need them for the manoeuvring of my left wing in the next war.”

Recommending the annexation of the Baltic Provinces at the Crown Council at Kreuznach (18 December 1917), quoted in John W. Wheeler-Bennett, The Nemesis of Power: The German Army in Politics 1918-1945 (London: Macmillan, 1964), p. 511, n. 2
Chief of the German General Staff

“You cannot wage war with sentimentality. The more ruthlessly war is conducted, the more merciful is it in fact, for it finishes the war the sooner.”

Remark (November 1914), Paul Dehn, Hindenburg, als Erzieher (1918), p. 12, quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 74
Supreme Commander of All German Forces in the East

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