| Show VON YON HINDENBURG HIND EN BURG BURGIS IS LAID AT REST Hitler Says Great Leader Opened Door to Bring Nazis to Power By fly Associated Press Pren TANNENBERG Germany Aug 7 Germany buried Paul von Hindenburg Hinden burg in in a shrine it holds sacred today today today to to- day after Adolf Hitler in an emotional emotional emo emo- lional eulogy at the the bier said the late nazi nazi- president opened the door to ism B Brief i f and simple was the funeral as the old w warrior statesman had wished but thousands of ot uniforms gave it a military atmosphere The body of the old year leader was placed to rest resl in one of the towers lowers of the national W war r monument ment erected on the scene of Von Hindenburg's great triumph over o the Russian army in 1914 Thousands of ol mourners were turned away but the entire nation paused during the funeral hour in a a farewell tribute to its revered leader Eulogizes Hitler as on yesterday esterday at a memorial memo memo- rial nial service of the reichstag eulogized eulo cub in glowing terms the m map p whose power he took look over o but he failed to give the expected ted indications of ol his future policies Diplomats and high government officials of wore were among those seated in inthe inthe inthe the draped black court of the memo memo memo- nat fiat Everywhere were seen the uniforms uniforms uni uni- forms of various army detachments the nazi storm troops the picked schutz gua guards ds and the thc tary organization of ot war veterans The coffin coWn was placed In front of ofa a slender tall cross of ol bronze Hitler and the Rev Mr Bohrmann Von army ch chaplains plains were the only speakers Hitler Hitter praising the the theman man who served Germany as as field marshal when he himself fought as a lance corporal said T Twice ce in the life me of ot a soldier honorable hon non ot orabe be mention comes to him alone alone- after a great victory and after death Hitler then reviewed Von linden linden- d on Page Pue Three iON ON HINDENBURG Is S 8 LAID TO REST Hitler Says Great leader Leade Opened Door to Bring Nazis to Power I I Continued from tram Pace Pue PigeOns One burgs burg's b rg'S eventful life beginning wi with his iLs baptism of fire at nd d through the war of 1870 is name was like that of u un I ted d. d thousands of officers un officers un known to to th the great at mass of the people people peo peo- pie the chancellor said j When the German people 44 years Jik liter later remembered Von Hindenburg Hindenburg's s name the clouds douds of war hung over Europe In the worst of these thes times Kaiser Wilhelm called upon Von Hindenburg to take over the supreme command of ot the army Six days l later Iter ter guns cuns were were booming and three days das later church bells rang in celebration tion of the victory of The unfortunate end of ot the war be circumstances can c can n under no charged against him It merely passes pisses judgment on the inability of the politicians of that day Was Last Triumph When I ua In 1925 the German people could find no better man than the field marshal-general marshal to head th the nation nation na na- na tion his election constituted the last triumph of the great army of the World war It was under his presidency that reparations could be made for the resurgence of the German nation It w was s he who open opened d the door to the representatives of that resurgence In his name name a union was achieved between between be be- tween the past and the future Twenty years ago the bells beUs of Germany rang out the name of Von Hindenburg Now as we return to the scene of ot his gr great t achievement the bells again are ringing in his honor bonor Our field marshal has gone into Valhalla Then came The Song of the Good Comrade and pl played with it was Deutschland Lied the nazi Hors Horst Wessel Song the air reverberated with the booms of the honor salutes Which h were fired amidst the strains of pf the military marches of the regiments regi ments with which Von Hindenburg had been identified Shunned Glorification Von Hindenburg's charge to his army chaplain was I I 1 wish no eulogy no rio glorification at my funeral only commend me to the mercy of God d. d This was told by the Protestant chaplain the Rev Mr Dohrmann in his funeral oration The brief eulogy was based on a text which Von Hindenburg himself selected from Revelations Be thou faithful unto death and I will give Sive thee the a crown crown of life Through a mile 60 lane of flaring torches Von Hindenburg's body was brought from his home at Neudeck to Tannenberg first by a motorized escort and at the end infantry by and ande e cavalry valry forces to his bis last resting place At sunrise the cor cortege ge stopped at ata a knoll outside the village of or Froe Proc genau Here it was that Marshal von Hindenburg Hindenburg Hin Hin- denburg and his staff directed the winning inning battle against the Russians at the start of the world war They paused five minutes then went on to the national memorial at Tannenberg where the coffin was placed In the Hall of Commanders Members of the family said their last farewell to the patriarch in his tudy study The coffin was borne out and placed near two flags of the Three battalions formed a t wide circle about the manor A A. A tattoo sounded and a gun carriage car car- niage drawn by six sic horses came to the door Six Sic officers lifted HUed the coffin cof cof- fin covered ered b by a black and white Germ German n. n war flag on the limber Umber I The procession headed b by seven army colonels carrying the field marshals marshals marshal's marthat's mar mar- that's baton and tokens of honor started down the long avenue of ash trees The only sound to be heard was the soft rolling roiling of drums |
