"Field Marshal von Hindenburg has forfeited the right to wear the field grey uniform of the army and to be buried in it. Herr Paul von Hindenburg has destroyed the very thing he fought for as Field Marshal."

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MonarchistsPeople of Nazi GermanyMilitary leaders from GermanyPrussiansPresidents of Germany
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Erich Ludendorff's remarks after Hindenburg signed the bills that ratified the Young Plan (c. 13 March 1930), quoted in W. M. Knight-Patterson, Germany from Defeat to Conquest, 1913–1933 (1945), p. 460