2 1932 NY Times newspaper HINDENBURG & HITLER vie in RUNOFF ELECTION in GERMANY

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2 1932 NY Times newspaper HINDENBURG & HITLER vie for power in a RUNOFF ELECTION in GERMANY 2 1932 NY Times newspaper PAUL VON HINDENBURG & ADOLPH HITLER vie in RUNOFF ELECTION in GERMANY - inv # 3A-346 Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS MORE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS for SALE or at auction SEE PHOTO(s) - Lot of two (2) COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPERs, the NY Times dated Match 15 and 16, 1932. This lot of 2 original newspapers contains front page headings and long detailed coverage of the 1932 election in Germany for President. Neither PAUL VON HINDENBURG or ADOLPH HITLER received an over 50% majority, thus they would hold another election in April, 1932 for the Presidency of Germany. Hindenburg would win the run-off but shortly after this election he died allowing Hitler to rise to become the undisputed leader of Nazi-ruled Germany. This election of 1932 marked the beginning of Hitler's rise to power in post-WW I Germany. The 1932 German presidential election was held on 13 March, with a runoff on 10 April.[1] Independent incumbent Paul von Hindenburg won a second seven year term against Adolf Hitler of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). Communist Party (KPD) leader Ernst Thälmann also ran and received more than ten percent of the vote in the runoff. Theodor Duesterberg, the deputy leader of the World War I veterans' organization Der Stahlhelm, ran in the first round but dropped out of the runoff. This was the second and final direct election to the office of President of the Reich (Reichspräsident), Germany's head of state under the Weimar Republic. Under the Weimar Republic, which had arisen from Germany's defeat in World War I, the presidency was a powerful office. Although the Weimar Constitution had provided for a semi-presidential republic, structural weaknesses had resulted in a paralyzed Reichstag and this combined with the Great Depression resulted in a government that had governed exclusively via presidential decrees since March 1930, giving the President much power. Hindenburg had been elected to the office in 1925 with the support of a coalition of several parties on the right who hoped that he would overturn the Weimar Republic, which was never particularly popular. The NSDAP, whose members were known as "Nazis", had risen from being a fringe group to the second-largest party in the Reichstag. Led by Hitler, who exercised sole control over its policy and direction, its ideology combined extreme hostility towards the Weimar Republic with fervent antisemitism and German nationalism. The threat of Hitler caused many on the left to support Hindenburg; at the same time, Hindenburg's failure to overturn the Weimar Republic had disappointed many of those who had supported him in 1925. The combined effect of these two influences resulted in a reversal of those who supported Hindenburg between the two elections. Some on the left were still lukewarm towards Hindenburg; the Communists exploited this by running Thälmann and promoting him as "the only left candidate". Hindenburg failed to receive the requisite majority of votes in the first round, but was able to win reelection in the runoff. Hindenburg's reelection failed to prevent the NSDAP from assuming power. Two successive federal elections later that year left it as the largest party in the Reichstag and anti-republic parties in the majority. Under this political climate, Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. Upon Hindenburg's death in 1934 Hitler de facto assumed the presidency, which he combined with the chancellorship to become the Führer und Reichskanzler. This would be the last presidential election in what would become West Germany and East Germany until 1949. It remains, until today, the last direct election of the German President. Very good condition. This listing includes the 2 complete entire original newspapers, NOT just a clipping or a page of them. STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the items that we sell with a no questions asked, money back guarantee. Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description. U.S. buyers pay USPS Media Mail postage which includes waterproof plastic and a heavy cardboard flat to protect the purchased item from damage in the mail. International postage is quoted when we are informed as to where the package is to be sent. 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