What a wonderful piece of theatre!

They have, in any event, good reason to see Hindenburg as a reliable support of their rotten, crumbling system.

Against the clearly expressed wishes of the people, as shown in the Reichstag election of 1930, Hindenburg has supported and propped up Brüning’s government.

With his signature, Hindenburg has supported the Young Plan that destroyed the German economy, and supported the reparations-paying policies of the System parties.

The top picture shows “a meeting in the Reichstag restaurant,” the bottom a disabled war veteran.

Hindenburg approved and signed Reich Chancellor Brüning’s emergency decrees that reduced the support of German workers to the barest minimum, and plunged disabled war veterans into the bitterest poverty and misery.