Paul von Hindenburg

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Could WWII have been avoided? How secret will of former German president Paul von Hindenburg may have knocked Hitler off course

The last will and testament of Baron Paul von Hindenburg, Germany's president until his death in 1934, rejected Adolf Hitler's claim to the Reichstag and urged the nation to embrace democracy.