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Here you see a fresh Adolf Hitler, quickly ascending the ranks of power.

Contrast to an old timer handle bar mustached top hat dying breed, who had endured Germany through defeat in WWI and the Weimar Republic.

Alfred Hugenberg, a powerful media mogul of the time, described Hindenburg as a "tool of the left" who "had no will of his own."

If Hugenberg is accurately describing him in the late 20's early 30s, then he's a bought and owned stooge like politicians today.

Although Hindenberg was the outgoing generation and Hitler was the incoming generation, and the rivalry this caused, they were still both opposed to the leftist factions and shared a desire to invade Poland.

Hindenberg probably overstayed his time in politics, like most stooge politicians do late in their careers. He was even accused of memory problems. It's easier to milk an existing coalition rather than build a new one. There was a void in leadership that Nazis were able to be opportunistic about.

>In the first round of voting in March 1932, Hindenburg was front-runner, but failed to gain the required majority.[192] (Nicolls, Anothony (2000). Weimar and the rise of Hitler. New York: Macmillan. p. 159.) In the runoff the following month Hindenburg won with 53 percent of the vote. However, he was disappointed because he lost voters from the right, only winning by the support of those who had strongly opposed him seven years before. He wrote "Despite all the blows in the neck I have taken, I will not abandon my efforts for a healthy move to the Right".He called in the party leaders for advice. During the meetings Meissner led the discussions while Hindenburg would only speak briefly on crucial points. Schleicher took the lead in choosing the cabinet, in which he was Reichswehr Minister. Groener was now even more unpopular to the right because he had banned wearing party uniforms in public. On 13 May 1932 Schleicher told Groener that he had "lost the confidence of the Army" and must resign at once.[194] Once Groener was gone, the ban was lifted and the Nazi brownshirts were back battling on the streets.

Looks like the 1932 election showed that he was right leaning, but losing support among the right and still barely hanging on to power with support of fickle moderates.

>When Hindenburg met with Hitler, Papen would always be present. The new cabinet included only three Nazis: Hitler, Göring and Wilhelm Frick. Besides Hitler, Frick was the only Nazi with a portfolio; he held the nearly powerless Interior Ministry (unlike the rest of Europe, at the time the Interior Ministry had no power over the police, which was the responsibility of the Länder). Göring did not receive a portfolio, but critically was made Prussian interior minister, controlling the largest police force in which he promoted Nazis as commanders.

>Hitler's first act as chancellor was to ask Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag, so that the Nazis and Deutschnationale Volkspartei ("German Nationalists" or DNVP) could win an outright majority to pass the Enabling Act of 1933 that would give the new government power to rule by decree, supposedly for the next four years. Unlike laws passed by Article 48, which could be cancelled by a majority in the Reichstag, under the Enabling Act the chancellor could pass laws by decree that could not be cancelled by a vote in the Reichstag. Hindenburg agreed to this request. In early February 1933, Papen asked for and received an Article 48 bill signed into law that sharply limited freedom of the press. After the Reichstag fire on 27 February, Hindenburg, at Hitler's urging, signed into law the Reichstag Fire Decree via Article 48, which effectively suspended all civil liberties in Germany. Göring as Prussian Interior Minister had enlisted thousands of Sturmabteilung (SA) men as auxiliary policemen, who attacked political opponents of the Nazis, with Communists and Social Democrats being singled out for particular abuse

Fucking badass. Way to go Göring. Perhaps we should read and learn more about Hermann Göring. This bad ass used his political power to promote Nazi loyalists in to take over the police force and then once they got to pass laws by decree, thanks to Hindenberg's support, could send Nazi police to assault and beat the marxist communist jews in the streets. Fucking "based." Hermann Göring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring

Hindenburg's house is now a kebab shop. Its a shame he didn't do more to reign in degeneracy when he was president for almost a decade, things might've worked out better in the long run for Germany and the rest of Europe.

>Hindenburg met Adolf Hitler for the first time in October 1931 at a high-level conference in Berlin. Everyone present saw that they took an immediate dislike to one another. Afterwards Hindenburg privately often referred to Hitler as "that Austrian corporal", "that Bohemian corporal" or sometimes simply as "the corporal". He also ridiculed Hitler's Austrian accent.[185] Hitler for his part called Hindenburg "that old fool" or "that old reactionary" in private conversations. REFERENCE Astore, William J.; Showalter, Denis E. (2005). Hindenburg: icon of German militarism. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books. p. 106.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_von_Hindenburg

How did Hindenburg gain popularity?

>After World War I began in 1914, Hindenburg was recalled and achieved fame on the Eastern Front as the victor of Tannenberg. He oversaw crushing victories against the Russians that made him a national hero and the center of a pervasive cult of personality. By 1916, his popularity had risen to the point that he replaced General Erich von Falkenhayn as Chief of the Great General Staff.[2] He and his deputy, General Erich Ludendorff, exploited Kaiser Wilhelm II's immense delegation of power to the Supreme Army Command to establish a de facto military dictatorship. Under their leadership, Germany secured Russia's defeat and achieved the largest advance on the Western Front since the early days of the war. However, after the United States entered the war on the side of the Allies, Germany's fortunes were sharply reversed after its army was decisively defeated in the Second Battle of the Marne and the Allies' Hundred Days Offensive. Following the armistice, Hindenburg stepped down as Chief of Staff, before retiring again in 1919.

Stop using the word "Nazi". It's a slur that the enemies of the White race use.

You must say National Socialism to refer to the ideology, and NSDAP to refer to Hitler's party.