April
1925, campaign for the presidential elections. The statue, in
cardboard-stone, depicts Marshal Hindenburg, a former monarchist and
chief of staff of the German army during the First World War.
The photo is taken in the Tauentzienstrasse, only meters from the Kurfürstendamm and the Gedächtniskirche, in the heart of West Berlin.
Hindenburg was elected president. Hitler did not deem himself strong enough to stand for election. The man in uniform in the seat of the truck is branding a red-white-black flag, the imperial flag (the Weimar Republic adopted the black-red-yellow, the same as the current one).
The photo is taken in the Tauentzienstrasse, only meters from the Kurfürstendamm and the Gedächtniskirche, in the heart of West Berlin.
Hindenburg was elected president. Hitler did not deem himself strong enough to stand for election. The man in uniform in the seat of the truck is branding a red-white-black flag, the imperial flag (the Weimar Republic adopted the black-red-yellow, the same as the current one).
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