Fliegen - mein Leben - Gebundenes Buch

Hanna Reitsch (born March 29, 1912 in Hirschberg / Silesia, died August 24, 1979 in Frankfurt / Main) was the most successful aviator in the 20th century with more than 40 world records in different classes and with different types of aircraft. In the first part of her memoirs, which end with the end of the war and American camp detention, she describes her training as an aviator, the subsequent professional activity as a flight instructor at a gliding school, her participation in research expeditions to South America, numerous flight world records and her work as a pilot pilot to test military Planes.
Since 1937 working at the flight test center of the Luftwaffe Rechlin, she was the first woman in the world to fly a helicopter (Focke-Wulf Fw 61), a rocket plane (Messerschmitt Me 163) and the manned V 1. Hanna Reitsch was the only one after a serious crash in 1943 Woman in German history the Iron Cross First Class.
On April 26, 1945, she flew with Colonel General von Greim and a Fieseler stork to Berlin, which had already been included by the Russian army, and spent three days in the bunker. Hanna Reitsch's reports on the doom and gloom in the center of power of the Third Reich in the immediate vicinity of Hitler are of impressive intensity and an important authentic testimony.
On April 29, 1945, under constant fire, she managed to fly out of Berlin the wounded Generalfeldmarschall von Greim, who had been appointed Commander in Chief of the Air Force. For Hanna Reitsch, 18 months followed a humiliating and bullying American captivity. The fate of a passionate aviator and great German patriot.

    Hardcover: 275 pages
    Language: German
    Size and / or weight: 15.7 x 3 x 21.8 cm