Ninety-one years ago today, on August 2, 1934 (June 22, 1934), Hindenburg died and Hitler succeeded him as President of Germany. After Hitler's death, Hitler combined the positions of president, chancellor, and supreme commander of the three armed forces to establish an outright fascist dictatorship. On August 2, 1934, President Hindenburg died. Hindenburg participated in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. He served as a German marshal during World War I and president in 1925. After taking office, he actively cooperated with the Nazi Party and played a role in fueling the rise of Nazi fascism. As early as the 1932 presidential election campaign, the Communist Party pointed out: "Whoever elected Hindenburg elected Hitler, and whoever elected Hitler elected the war." This prophecy has been fully proven by history. Hindenburg died Just as German President and Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was dying, Hitler's cabinet enacted a law to combine the positions of president and chancellor into one. Hitler's final consolidation of power came at the end of a two-month political bloodbath in Germany and Austria, with Hitler disposing of his former colleague and power-ambitious Stormtrooper leader Enns-Romm (left)