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Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviator and test pilot. Along with Melitta von Stauffenberg, she flight tested many of Germany's new aircraft during World War II and received many honors. Reitsch was among the very last people to meet Adolf Hitler alive in the Führerbunker in late April 1945.
Hanna Reitsch was the leading female aviator and German pilot in the 20th century. (Read Orville Wright’s 1929 biography of his brother, Wilbur.) Reitsch originally trained in the 1930s as a flying missionary. She became the first German woman to win a captain’s license, the first female helicopter
Oct 5, 2017 · Hanna Reitsch: Hitler's Female Test Pilot | HistoryNet. Stories. One of Hitler’s Top Test Pilots Was a Woman Who Once Flew a Helicopter — Indoors. Hanna Reitsch would set more than 40 records in her lifetime. But she was slow to recognize the ruin into which the Nazis were leading her homeland. by R.E. Van Patten 10/5/2017.
German flier and test pilot, now recognized as one of the foremost aviators of the 20th century, who was imprisoned as a Nazi sympathizer after World War II, although her name was later cleared. Born Hanna Reitsch on March 29, 1912, in the village of Hirschberg, in German Silesia; died on August 24, 1979, of a heart attack, in Frankfurt ...
Jan 24, 2022 · 36K. 1.2M views 2 years ago. An examination of the true events surrounding the last plane to escape from embattled Berlin in April 1945, that carried famous test pilot Hanna Reitsch and the...
Hanna Reitsch was a German aviator known for setting many firsts in flying and for being a test-pilot of the German ‘Luftwaffe’. Born in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century it was her parent’s dream that she become a doctor like her father. However, in her own words, all she ever wanted to do was to fly as unfettered and free as a bird.
Sep 29, 2009 · http://digilander.libero.it/romanoarc... http://www.webalice.it/romanoarchives A tribute to Hanna Reitsch (1912-1979) in the 30th anniversary of her death. Excerpt from her last interview (1976...
1939: women's world record in gliding. 1943: While in the Luftwaffe, first woman to pilot a rocket plane ( Me 163). She survived a disastrous crash though with severe injuries and because of this she became the first and only German woman to receive the Iron Cross First Class.
Jul 1, 2008 · Drawing on the German, Indian and Ghanaian press, personal correspondence, published memoirs and diplomatic records, this article examines the career of gliding pilot Hanna Reitsch as a case study in transnational history. In the Third Reich, while working as a test pilot on military projects, Reitsch emerged as the most prominent female aviator.
Nazi Germany's leading woman stunt pilot and an enthusiastic admirer of Hitler who begged to be allowed to die with him in the Fuhrerbunker at the end of World War II, Hanna Reitsch was born in Hirschberg, Silesia, on 29 March 1912, the daughter of an ophthalmologist. A young Hanna Reitsch.
