NOUN
- German field marshal and statesman; as president of the Weimar Republic he reluctantly appointed Hitler as chancellor in 1933 (1847-1934)
How To Use Hindenburg In A Sentence
- Thus, after a few scant weeks of training, Monk Eastman and the New Yorkers were abruptly pitchforked into the great final push of the conflict — an attack on Germany's Hindenburg Line. A Gangster Goes to War
- Hindenburg is an example of this branch of Junkerdom.
- With the proper concepts the Hindenburg line may be breached.
- Thus Erich Ludendorff, Hindenburg's leading general and strategic collaborator, decided to capitalize on whatever advantage the Central Powers had gained from Russia's withdrawal in 1917 e.g., a shifting westward of German forces, along with needed food and fertilizer. The Bitter End
- General Byng's attack covered the whole length of what had become known as the redoubtable and supposedly impregnable "Hindenburg line," so called because it had been established by that greatest of all German military geniuses, Field Marshal von Hindenburg. The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders Or, the Fighting Canadians of Vimy Ridge
- Whereupon President Hindenburg appointed Hitler to the chancellorship, and the Nazis started taking over.
- Since the demise of the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg, helium was in big demand as the buoyant gas for airships.
- Hindenburg regarded such a prospect with abhorrence.
- In August, after von Hindenburg's death, a plebiscite made Hitler the Chancellor. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
- In front of it lay the very strong Hindenburg Line - a defensive position in which the Germans put a great deal of trust.