President Paul von Hindenburg with 15th Chancellor Adolf Hitler in May 1933
Hindenburg was 84 years old, and Hitler was 43 years old
The Weimar Republic was a historical period of the German state from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional republic for the first time in history.
"It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic"
On November 08, 1918, a meeting was scheduled between military officers and politicians of Germany and the main Allies of the First World War.
The location was a railway carriage in the forest of Compiègne in northern France.
The Germans thought that they were there to negotiate terms.
However, Marshal Foch, the top French military leader, made it clear that they were, in fact, there to sign Germany’s unconditional surrender.
Three days of fruitless negotiations followed before the Germans signed the armistice, lodging a formal complaint about the harsh terms imposed on Germany by the victorious Allies.
