Monday, Aug. 29, 1927
"Our Hindenburg"
The Educational Department of the Ufa Co., Germany's great cinema combine, turned from filming the lives of butterflies, bugs, reptilia, to the career of General Feldmarschall Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, President of the German Reich.
Herr Hindenburg, as democratic Teutons prefer to call him, is the "best known soldier in the world," according to Emil Ludwig, able, German biographer. Fame came to him after the battle of the Masurian Lakes, when Berliners paid exorbitant prices for the honor of driving nails and other scraps of iron into his well-known wooden effigy. He became the symbol of
Prussian militarism to the Allies and the hero of the War to the Germans. Fame came to him again when he became the second President of the Fatherland. This time he symbolizes the Republic. Thus does time parody the great.
On Oct. 2 President Hindenburg will celebrate his 80th birthday. Herr Hugenberg, ardent monarchist chieftain, who controls the Ufa Co., will produce a film illustrating the President's career from Second Lieutenant to Field Marshal. It is to be entitled Our Hindenburg and is expected to be ready for the birthday celebrations.