How the cult of personality around this German WWI figurehead helped usher in Hitler.

The vital lesson of how Adolf Hitler took advantage of democracy to become a dictator.

No sooner had 19,359,642 German ballots re-elected President von Hindenburg for a second seven-year term last week than audacious Adolf Hitler (who had won 13,417,460 votes) began talking of "My ...

By 1932, Hitler had managed to secure German citizenship, and he ran for the presidency against President Paul von Hindenburg, who was approaching the end of his seven-year term.