Today -100: April 27, 1925: Oh the huma... no that doesn’t really work

Paul von Hindenburg wins the German presidential election run-off (can it be called a run-off if he wasn’t in the first round?) with 49.3%, Wilhelm Marx getting 45.3%, and Communist candidate Ernst Thälmann getting 6.4%. The field marshal did well in right-wing areas like East Prussia, as expected, but also in Bavaria, where some expected the Catholic Marx to do better.

The NYT says Washington is “unperturbed” by the election of the monarchist militarist.

Women in the Communist “Red Cat organization” ride around Berlin on trucks singing “the famous Miau-Maiu song,” whatever that might be (it can’t be the Rossini thing, right? that would make no sense at all).

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