[Andreas Brekken]

Hi, all

The interpretation (or should we say version) of the truth presented by an author or authors will always represent the knowledge of said author(s) at the time of conception for a publication.

I have the utmost respect for the work done by Prien et al - but I also know that they have the same understanding expressed in discussions here and elsewhere - the last word is not said on each and every topic they cover in their excellent book series - simply because there are still discoveries of new nuggets of reference gold even today and because their ground breaking work cover such an immensely large number of them - 70 or even in the case of the He 51 production mentioned here - 80 years later.

I doubt there are many people that have used more time and money on trying to understand the pre-war German aircraft production complex than seaplanes - and your dismissal of his work I find quite rude.

So - do an effort and try to verify which version is the correct one (by for example visiting the Bundesarchiv, The Heinkel archives or the National Archives - which in this case seaplanes has already done on several occasions) - or just keep your opinions on who is right or wrong to yourself, and politely say thank you for the additional information presented to you on a plate in this forum.

Regards,
Andreas B