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Assess the impact of the role of Paul von Hindenburg in the period following World War 1 and prior to World War 2.
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... Assess the impact of the role of Paul von Hindenburg in the period following World War 1 and prior to World War 2 Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Hindenburg und Benechendorff was a German field marshal and right-wing politician. He was born into a Prussian Junker family in Posen, Prussia in 1847 being the eldest of three sons. His military interest was sparked at an early age when he attended two cadet schools in Wahlstatt and Berlin. He entered the Prussian Army and served in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and then in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. His rank rose steadily as he was appointed to the general staff in 1878, by 1903 he had rose to the Commanding General of the Fourth Army in Magdeburg but in 1911 he retired from military service. He married a woman named Gertrud von Sperling in 1879 and had three children, one














