
267 The Brown Battalions
The History of the Twentieth Century
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German democracy had survived under hindenberg this far, kind of there was no reason to i that would change much in a second term. But politics, as they say, makes strange bedfellows. And so terrified by the prospect of a president hitler, the social democratic party and the centre party forewent the nomination of candidates of their own parties and instead endorsed hindenburg. Ironically, hindenburg, the right winged candidate who had frustrated the wimar coalition back in 19 25, would this time around be the candidate of the socialists and the catholics,. Whether he liked it or not, and he most certainly did not like it.
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