Martin Antonenko
A Fixture
- Joined
- Jul 11, 2008
- Messages
- 8,997
The End Of The Weimar Republic!
After a conversation with Reich President Paul von Beneckendorff and Hindenburg...
... explains the independent German Chancellor (and General of the Infantry) Paul von Schleicher...
...his resignation on January 28, 1933.
There is no sign of a parliamentary majority in the deeply divided Reichstag that he could rely on.
Schleicher recommends Hindenburg as the new Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler...
...to appoint and put in charge of forming a new government.
According to Schleicher, however, this new government should not only consist of Nazis, but also of right-wing bourgeois members, in order to politically wall the extremist Hitler in, so to speak.
What he doesn't know:
Hindenburg, heavily intriguing behind the scenes, has long since tied his threads to Hitler!
His confidant Franz von Papen (here with Schleicher) is negotiating on Hindenburg's behalf...
... already with Hitler about his chancellorship - and a well-upholstered ministerial chair for yourself!
Papen will be rewarded with the desired ministerial post (without business) in Hitler's first government, which will not be associated with any power.
As a "figurehead" he is only supposed to make the Nazis palatable to the old Prussian and monarchist-minded elites.
Here he sits to the right of Hitler and Goering...:
After the conversation with Hindenburg, Schleicher goes back to his official apartment on Unter den Linden, packs up his personal belongings, puts his two dachshunds on a leash...
...and goes home.
The moment the above photo is taken, the Weimar Republic is practically over - one could also say: At the end...
Like most of his colleagues in the higher ranks of the Reichswehr, Schleicher was certainly not a friend of the Weimar Republic. But he tolerated them, served them loyally and knew about the fate that the National Socialists would bring their country if they ruled alone - something he never made a secret of.
His name is therefore already on the "black list" of the Nazis.
They will seize the first opportunity - the so-called "Röhm Putsch" on June 30, 1934 - to kill the last chancellor of German democracy and his wife Elisabeth...
... to be killed by a murder squad in their house in Neubabelsberg near Berlin...
Germany's way into the abyss has begun...
After a conversation with Reich President Paul von Beneckendorff and Hindenburg...
... explains the independent German Chancellor (and General of the Infantry) Paul von Schleicher...
...his resignation on January 28, 1933.
There is no sign of a parliamentary majority in the deeply divided Reichstag that he could rely on.
Schleicher recommends Hindenburg as the new Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler...
...to appoint and put in charge of forming a new government.
According to Schleicher, however, this new government should not only consist of Nazis, but also of right-wing bourgeois members, in order to politically wall the extremist Hitler in, so to speak.
What he doesn't know:
Hindenburg, heavily intriguing behind the scenes, has long since tied his threads to Hitler!
His confidant Franz von Papen (here with Schleicher) is negotiating on Hindenburg's behalf...
... already with Hitler about his chancellorship - and a well-upholstered ministerial chair for yourself!
Papen will be rewarded with the desired ministerial post (without business) in Hitler's first government, which will not be associated with any power.
As a "figurehead" he is only supposed to make the Nazis palatable to the old Prussian and monarchist-minded elites.
Here he sits to the right of Hitler and Goering...:
After the conversation with Hindenburg, Schleicher goes back to his official apartment on Unter den Linden, packs up his personal belongings, puts his two dachshunds on a leash...
...and goes home.
The moment the above photo is taken, the Weimar Republic is practically over - one could also say: At the end...
Like most of his colleagues in the higher ranks of the Reichswehr, Schleicher was certainly not a friend of the Weimar Republic. But he tolerated them, served them loyally and knew about the fate that the National Socialists would bring their country if they ruled alone - something he never made a secret of.
His name is therefore already on the "black list" of the Nazis.
They will seize the first opportunity - the so-called "Röhm Putsch" on June 30, 1934 - to kill the last chancellor of German democracy and his wife Elisabeth...
... to be killed by a murder squad in their house in Neubabelsberg near Berlin...
Germany's way into the abyss has begun...
