In 1925, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg became the second president of Germany's postwar Weimar Republic.

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Field Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg was the most famous of the accused Germans, but the Allies never touched him.

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After winning about a third of the vote in Germany's 1932 election, Hitler convinced ailing President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint him chancellor on Jan. 30, 1933 setting Germany on a course to war and genocide.

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