Hanna Reitsch

andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Tue Jun 3 15:42:00 CDT 1997


Henry Musikar writes:

> . . . Hanna Reitsch appears in history books as 
> the lone pilot who -- in the final days of the siege of Berlin -- 
> flew into the Nazi capital to rescue Adolf Hitler at the very last 
> moment. (Hitler insisted on staying behind, and killed himself in his 
> bunker.)"

If I recall correctly Albert Speer recounts this story in his memoirs,
`Inside the Third Reich'.


Andrew Dinn
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And though Earthliness forget you,
To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
To the rushing water speak:  I am.



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