] He met Adolf Hitler for the first time in October 1931, at a high-level conference in Berlin. Everyone present saw that they took an immediate dislike to each other. Afterwards Hindenburg in private often disparagingly referred to Hitler as "that Austrian corporal", "that Bohemian corporal" or sometimes simply as "the corporal" and also derided Hitler's Austrian dialect.[173] For his part, Hitler often labeled Hindenburg as "that old fool" or "that old reactionary". On 26 January 1933, Hindenburg privately told a group of his friends: "Gentlemen, I hope you will not hold me capable of appointing this Austrian corporal to be Reich Chancellor".[174] Hindenburg made it clear that he saw himself as the leader of the "national" forces and expected Hitler to follow his lead.[172]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_von_Hindenburg
And yet despite all this somehow Hitler was appointed Chancellor anyway and this is how Hitler began his takeover of the German Government.
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