Amerikali gazeteci, savas muhabiri ve tarihci William L. Shirer’in olum yildonumu (28 Aralik 1993)
“Hic olmeyecekmis gibi gorunen Hinderburg butun yaz boyunca coktukce coktu ve sonunda 2 Agustos sabahi, saat dokuzda, seksen yedi yasinda oldu. Uc saat sonra, ogle uzeri, bir gun once kabinenin almis oldugu bir karar geregince, Basbakanlik makami ile Cumhurbaskanligi makaminin birlestirildigi, Adolf Hitler’in Devlet Baskanligi ve Silahli Kuvvetler Baskomutanligi gorevini uzerine aldigi aciklandi. Cumhurbaskani unvani kaldirildi; Hitler’e Fuhrer ve Alman Basbakani (Sansolyesi) denilecekti. Artik diktatorlugu tamamlanmisti. Hitler herhangi bir delik birakmamak amaciyla butun silahli kuvvetlerdeki subaylara ve erlere bir baglilik yemini ettirdi: subaylar ve erler, Almanya’ya ya da Hindenburg'un yerine gececek Cumhurbaskaninin sectirilmemesiyle bozulmus olan Anayasaya bagliliklari uzerine degil, Hitler’in sahsina bagliliklari uzerine yemin etmislerdi.”
“All through the summer the seemingly indestructible Hindenburg had been sinking and on August 2, at nine in the morning, he died in his eighty-seventh year. At noon, three hours later, it was announced that according to a law enacted by the cabinet on the preceding day the offices of Chancellor and President had been combined and that Adolf Hitler had taken over the powers of the head of state and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. The title of President was abolished; Hitler would be known as Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor. His dictatorship had become complete. To leave no loopholes Hitler exacted from all officers and men of the armed forces an oath of allegiance—not to Germany, not to the constitution, which he had violated by not calling for the election of Hindenburg’s successor, but to himself.”



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