Theos-Talk Archives (December 1997 Message tt00132)

Dear Frank:

	The Cranston biography is being revised yet again, and we will
relay the message below to the editor/publisher, who is off-line
temporarily due to a computer theft:

>The H.P.B. Biography by Sylvia Cranston, revised edition, has an error on=
>
>page 597 conc. to EN 124. The text runs: "The Reichsfuhrer [Adolf
>Hitler]..."
> =
>
>In fact the title "Reichsfuhrer" (with umlaut - two points over the "u")
>belonged not to Hitler but to Himmler. Hitler himself was called "The
>Fuhrer"
>(with umlaut, too). In detail, the official title of Heinrich Himmler fro=
>m
>June
>17, 1936 on was "Reichsfuhrer-SS und Chef der deutschen Polizei". Already=
>
>"Reichsfuhrer SS" since January, 6, 1929, but chief of the police he got
>not
>before 1936. Source: Ludwig Peters, Volkslexikon Drittes Reich,
>Tubingen,
>1994.
> =
>
>Anyone should be so glad to inform both the author and the publisher or
>give me the addresses.
> =
>
>Frank Reitemeyer

Thanks again,
			Dara Eklund