This Date in History: August 2

Paul von Hindenburg, German Field Marshal in World War I, born October 2, 1847 in Posen, winner of the Pour le Mérite in World War I, second president of the Weimar Republic, died on August 2, 1934 in Gut Neudeck (East Prussia), said on Adolf Hitler: “Make that man [Hitler] my Chancellor?  I’ll make him a postmaster, and he can lick stamps with my head on them!”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)

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Andrej Andreyevich Vlasov, Soviet Lieutenant General, deputy commander of the Northwest Front, captured by the Germans after the Battle of Volkhov in 1942, leader of the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) which assisted the Germans, captured by the western allies and handed to the Soviets in 1945, executed by hanging on August 2, 1946 in Moscow, on German chances of winning the war: “You can’t even give me the right-size suit, and you want to conquer the world!”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)