Social Democrats in 1925

The Social Democrats surpassed everyone in this noble battle in throwing filth at the venerable field marshal of the World War. Vorwärts thundered and raged about the presumption of a general, a Junker, to be the successor of the Social Democrat Ebert in the Reich President’s seat.

Vorwärts wrote:

“A catastrophic president... He busies himself by polishing his medals... Save the republic! Two million dead admonish us: Never again Hindenburg!”

Whenever Vorwärts dislikes an opponent, the noble paper uses the term “catastrophic politician.” At the moment, the Socialist party hacks use this method against the evil Nazis.

7 Years ago!

“Now you know what German loyalty is.” (Vorwärts, 18.4.25)

[The cartoon shows Hindenburg and Tirpitz walking past a begging war veteran.]

“A particularly vile trick!”

That’s what the SPD-Jew Ernst Heilmann called the National Socialist refusal to support an extension of the Reich President’s term of office.

Herr Heilmann!

How, then, would you describe that miserable, nasty insult that a dirty rotten fink published on 18 April 1925 on the occasion of Hindenburg’s election in your official party newspaper Vorwärts?

Herr Heilmann!

The German people will know what to say to you and your “iron” party in the Reich presidential election about this “particularly vile trick!”

Vorwärts also wrote in 1925:

“... The new pilgrimage is to the Haarmann Building [Haarmann was a mass murderer], the place where 30 people died. The good citizen stands outside and shudders, goose bumps on his back and goose bumps in his soul, with a bloodthirsty monster in the soul and curiosity in the eyes, to see where Haarmann once lived... the street is filled with cars, coaches and people, and everyone asks: ‘Were did Haarmann live?’ Germans from every Gau of our fatherland... And only thirty people!

People also gather in front of the villa in the Hindenburg district where the old general lives, the one who sent hundreds of thousands of people to a useless death in his offensives. Here, too, one has that titillating feeling of horror, a trembling of the lip, as one tries to strike a blow against France. The beer drinkers are excited. How promising the future looks, and what parallels to the past. [I can’t quite figure out this paragraph. If you can, let me know. Here’s the original: ““Aber ebenso stauende Menschen vor der Villa im Hindenburgviertel, wo der alte General wohnt, der in allen Offensiven Hunderttausende von Menschen in den Tod getrieben und nutzlos geopfert hat. Auch hier dieses herrliche grausige Gefuhl, die Gänsehaut auf der Lippe, mit der man siegreich Frankreich schlagen will. Und Gänsehaut auf der Bierleber. Welche Zukunftsaussichten und welche Parallelen.”]

Let the old gentleman in Hanover sleep, and give him a fair of fancy pants! But let everyone vote for Wilhelm Marx.

... Hindenburg’s candidacy is a threat to peace... His election would bring great misery to the German people... Germany’s currency would be endangered once again. He who votes for Hindenburg is voting for a new inflation...”

One of the most revolting items in this area comes from the main organ of the Bavarian Marxists, the Münchner Post. In its 23 April 1925 issue, it insulted the then candidate of the national opposition as a “Jewish offspring,” claiming to reveal the fact that Hindenburg’s great uncle had been a Hebrew.

Two days later, the same Münchner Post thundered in an election call:

“Strike a blow against the greatest military loser in world history, strike a blow against Hindenburg and you will also be striking the stubborn military which defended the shameful Prussian election law [which set up categories of voters with varying degrees of significance] that denied equal political rights to you, while at the same time you were bleeding in the trenches. If Hindenburg had any political sense at all, if he had the slightest idea of international political and economic relations, he would never have let himself be talked into candidacy. Those on fat pensions, those who profited from inflation, those who opposed revaluing the currency, they are the ones who will benefit from a Hindenburg victory.”

One can see that the Red Socialist party hacks’ screams about inflation are nothing new. Back then, the Red gutter journalists accused Hindenburg of responsibility for inflation. Today it is supposedly the Nazis. The same old filth.

The old Social Democratic President Bock wrote an open letter to Hindenburg in which he said:

“Field marshal! Your acceptance of the presidential nomination of the German national rightist block proves once more that age does not protect one from foolishness.”

No less than Karl Severing, the Prussian Minister of the Interior, who the Social Democrats are so eager to claim as a great statesman, wrote on 12 April 1925:

“National Labor”. By Karl Severing,Prussian Minister of the Interior.

... A policy of revanchism and saber rattling would only bring the working class new misery and new enslavement. That must be stopped.”

Back then, the SPD used every possible method to fight the hated field marshal. The Reichsbanner did not even shy away from accepting 300,000 Reichsmarks from France to use for election propaganda against electing Hindenburg Reich President, the funds detouring through the German Peace Society.