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Hitler, his inner circle, and grammar
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 2:53 pm
by Patrick
I hope this question doesn't come across as glib, but...
Who (if anyone) amongst Hitler's inner circle addressed his as "du" rather than "sie"?
(We'll leave Eva Braun out of this one.)
Re: Hitler, his inner circle, and grammar
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 4:09 pm
by Prosper Vandenbroucke
The only one who said "Du" when he adressed him to A.Hitler was Ernst Röhm.
Sorry for my poor english
Regards from Belgium
Prosper.
P.S. I found it out in a book in french language
Re: Hitler, his inner circle, and grammar
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 7:59 pm
by Hans
"Röhm in fact is the only political associate known to have called Hitler by the familiar 'du'".
Source: James Taylor and Warren Shaw, A Dictionary of the Third Reich, Grafton Books, 1987, p. 276.
Must say that it didn't do him much good.
- Hans
Re: Hitler, his inner circle, and grammar
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 6:34 pm
by sawman
Albert Speer mentioned something about this on page #120 in his book Inside the Third Reich. He states "When Eckhart died in 1923 there remained four men with whom Hitler used the Du of close friendship: Herman Esser, Christian Weber, Julius Streicher, and Ernst Roehm. In Esser's case he found a pretext after 1933 to reintroduce the formal Sie; Weber he avoided; Streicher he treated impersonally; and Roehm he had killed." Cass
Re: Hitler, his inner circle, and grammar
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:21 pm
by Patrick
Thanks to all for your replies!