HINDENBURG’S WILL
LONDON,'November 22. The Associated Press Nuremberg correspondent says that von Papen’s last act before entering the Nuremberg Courtroom to fight for his life was a reconstruction of Hindenburg’s will. The correspondent adds that von Papen as Hindenburg’s ViceChancellor prepared the testament in April, 1934, and handed it to Hitler after Hindenburg’s death. The Nakis later in 1934. published a purported Hindenburg testament, in which he called on Hitler to concentrate power in Germany in a single hand and deliver the German people from the disorders, disunity and unrest which threatened the Reich’s existence. Von Papen, reconstructing the will from memory, revealed that the Nazi version was spurious and stated that Hindenburg actually wanted a restoration of the Monarchy when order was restored. Hitler agreed to this stipulation.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 November 1945, Page 3
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