Retirement of Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg, son of the late President of Germany, leaves unsolved the mystery of exactly what role he has played in the rise to power of Adolf Hitler’s Nazis, the ...

Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was born on October 2, 1847, in Posen. At the age of nineteen he became a sub-lieutenant in the Third Guards Regiments.

CONCORD, N.H. – The last remaining survivor of the Hindenburg disaster, Werner Gustav Doehner, who suffered severe burns to his face, arms and legs before his mother managed to toss him and his ...

Anna von der Goltz, Hindenburg: Power, Myth and the Rise of the Nazis (Oxford University Press, 2009) Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918 (Penguin, 2015) ...