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Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg: My late departed father always recognized Adolf Hitler as his immediate successor. . . . Thus there comes to you, O German people, from the Field Marshal's tower in the Tannenberg Monument [tomb of von Hindenburg] this call: "Rally around and stand united behind Germany's Leader! Let all the world know that an indissoluble tie firmly unites the German people...
President von Hindenburg (in a document which Colonel von Hindenburg produced last week as his father's political last will and testament): My Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, and his movement have taken a decisive stride of historical importance toward a great goal of leading the German people to inner unity regardless of differences of rank and class. I know much yet remains to be done, and from the bottom of my heart I wish that the act of National Regeneration and Unification may be followed by an act of Reconciliation to embrace the whole German Fatherland...
Even Paris agreed that it was a great Hitler speech. Orator Hitler played adroitly on the theme that revolution had been expected to break out in Germany upon the death of Hindenburg and that he had averted this catastrophe by prompt assumption of the President's powers...
With candor, real or assumed, Hitler said of Hindenburg: "After many battles he finally granted me his gracious friendship and thus founded a relationship which made me happy and was of the greatest help to the nation...
...churchmen, Catholic Hitler spoke in a Nazi idiom not all of them understand. "The National Socialist State professes positive Christianity!"* He cried. "I will make an honest effort to protect the two great Christian confessions. ... It is further my intention to preserve the great cultural values inspired by our people in the past, including the prehistoric period...