The old man became GENERAL-FELDMARSCHAL von HINDENBURG. Behind that gigantic cloak moved a neurasthenic, a genius, a man too eccentric and of too insignificant family to be given so august a title ...

President-elect Hindenburg, his son and daughter-in-law, alighted. The aged Field Marshal was welcomed to Berlin by the Chancellor, his Cabinet, General von Seeckt, Commander of the Reichswehr ...