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Thus Erich Ludendorff, Hindenburg's leading general and strategic collaborator, decided to capitalize on whatever advantage the Central Powers had gained from Russia's withdrawal in 1917 e.g., a shifting westward of German forces, along with needed food and fertilizer.
The Bitter End William Anthony Hay 2011
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Gershwin's comments, assuming they reflect his thinking (the quote does sound a bit like a press release), show him on the cutting edge for 1933, both culturally and politically; this is, after all, only a few months after the Reichstag fire, and still prior Hindenburg's death.
Someone to watch over me Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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That worked well at the start, but then most of the Hindenburg's flight was uneventful as well.
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The very next day, he was in President Hindenburg's office urging the aging statesman to issue a patriot act, a decree entitled, "For the Protection of the People and the State."
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She does print a somewhat less damning picture taken moments earlier, which as honesty goes is fair enough, and her own account of what happened during a "two-minute lapse of sanity [that] will haunt me until I die" is predictably overwrought, a mite disingenuous, and as fascinating as a lecture on zeppelin safety from the Hindenburg's captain.
Calamity Jane 2005
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But hydrogen got a bum rap in that disaster, since the Hindenburg's flaming demise was likely due to the airship's flammable powdered-aluminum coating.
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Many note that other political factors played a role in the long-term demise of the zeppelin, but nothing captured the moment more perfectly than the image of the Hindenburg's flaming metal skeleton as silhouetted people scattered in terror.
Top 10 Worst Marketing Gaffes, Flops, and Disasters - The Consumerist 2007
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She does print a somewhat less damning picture taken moments earlier, which as honesty goes is fair enough, and her own account of what happened during a "two-minute lapse of sanity [that] will haunt me until I die" is predictably overwrought, a mite disingenuous, and as fascinating as a lecture on zeppelin safety from the Hindenburg's captain.
Calamity Jane 2005
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Two months later, upon President Hindenburg's death, Hitler took two steps to solidify his position.
Garden of Beasts Deaver, Jeffery 2004
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Hitler refused Hindenburg's request that he serve as a vice chancellor under Papen.
1931, May 11 2001
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