Fubrer's Congratulations On "Return to Health"
Berlin, Apr. 9.
General Werner von Fritsch, former Chief of the German General Staff, will shortly be reinstated in the ranks of the Reich's active army, claim persistent rumours here. "These obtain support from the fact that Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler recently wrote to the general and congratulated him on his regained health.
General von Fritsch "retired" on February 4, because of "health reasons." His leaving the active Army servite, however, coincided with the day of the assuming of military leadership by Herr Hitler in the widely-publicized February 4 "bloodless purge."
At the time, current reports claimed General von Fritsch had been taken out of office because of a virtual ultimatum he had handed to the Fuhrer demanding that the Army be left free of too radical National Socialist movements. German quarters, however, ridiculed these reports.—Havas.
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