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A biography of Hanna Reitsch, associate of Hitler and flying heroine of Nazi Germany. Equally fanatical pilot and patriot, she flew such revolutionary aircraft as the Gigant, the Me 163 and the manned version of the V1. As the second war ended she was the last to fly in and out of Berlin and was in the bunker until only a few hours before Hitler's death. Suspecting her of having flown Hitler to safety, the American authorities imprisoned her. Although she could not escape the post-war stigma of having associated with the Nazis, she became a close friend of Nehru and Mrs Gandhi and was received at the White House by President Kennedy. In the 1960s she set up a gliding school in Ghana at the personal invitation of President Nkrumah. She continued to make and break gliding records until just before her death in 1979 at the age of 67, but despite her accomplishments in the air, the German press continued to attack her politically. Drawing on interviews with people who knew the pilot at all stages of her life, including her American interrogator and her wartime colleagues, the author examines why Hanna Reitsch remained for many a symbol of Nazi Germany. Judy Lomax has also written "Women of the Air" and "Walking in the Clouds - Impressions of Nepal".

A biography of Hanna Reitsch, associate of Hitler and flying heroine of Nazi Germany. Equally fanatical pilot and patriot, she flew such revolutionary aircraft as the Gigant, the Me 163 and the manned version of the V1. As the second war ended she was the last to fly in and out of Berlin and was in the bunker until only a few hours before Hitler's death. Suspecting her of having flown Hitler to safety, the American authorities imprisoned her. Although she could not escape the post-war stigma of having associated with the Nazis, she became a close friend of Nehru and Mrs Gandhi and was received at the White House by President Kennedy. In the 1960s she set up a gliding school in Ghana at the personal invitation of President Nkrumah. She continued to make and break gliding records until just before her death in 1979 at the age of 67, but despite her accomplishments in the air, the German press continued to attack her politically. Drawing on interviews with people who knew the pilot at all stages of her life, including her American interrogator and her wartime colleagues, the author examines why Hanna Reitsch remained for many a symbol of Nazi Germany. Judy Lomax has also written "Women of the Air" and "Walking in the Clouds - Impressions of Nepal".

Biographers' Club Prize-winner Clare Mulley’s The Women Who Flew for Hitler―a dual biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women pilots.Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous, and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make their names in the male-dominated field of flight in 1930s Germany. With the war, both became pioneering test pilots and were awarded the Iron Cross for service to the Third Reich. But they could not have been more different and neither woman had a good word to say for the other.Hanna was middle-class, vivacious, and distinctly Aryan, while the darker, more self-effacing Melitta came from an aristocratic Prussian family. Both were driven by deeply held convictions about honor and patriotism; but ultimately, while Hanna tried to save Hitler’s life, begging him to let her fly him to safety in April 1945, Melitta covertly supported the most famous attempt to assassinate the Führer. Their interwoven lives provide vivid insight into Nazi Germany and its attitudes toward women, class, and race.Acclaimed biographer Clare Mulley gets under the skin of these two distinctive and unconventional women, giving a full―and as yet largely unknown―account of their contrasting yet strangely parallel lives, against a changing backdrop of the 1936 Olympics, the Eastern Front, the Berlin Air Club, and Hitler’s bunker. Told with brio and great narrative flair, The Women Who Flew for Hitler is an extraordinary true story, with all the excitement and color of the best fiction.

Biographers' Club Prize-winner Clare Mulley’s The Women Who Flew for Hitler―a dual biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women pilots.Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous, and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make their names in the male-dominated field of flight in 1930s Germany. With the war, both became pioneering test pilots and were awarded the Iron Cross for service to the Third Reich. But they could not have been more different and neither woman had a good word to say for the other.Hanna was middle-class, vivacious, and distinctly Aryan, while the darker, more self-effacing Melitta came from an aristocratic Prussian family. Both were driven by deeply held convictions about honor and patriotism; but ultimately, while Hanna tried to save Hitler’s life, begging him to let her fly him to safety in April 1945, Melitta covertly supported the most famous attempt to assassinate the Führer. Their interwoven lives provide vivid insight into Nazi Germany and its attitudes toward women, class, and race.Acclaimed biographer Clare Mulley gets under the skin of these two distinctive and unconventional women, giving a full―and as yet largely unknown―account of their contrasting yet strangely parallel lives, against a changing backdrop of the 1936 Olympics, the Eastern Front, the Berlin Air Club, and Hitler’s bunker. Told with brio and great narrative flair, The Women Who Flew for Hitler is an extraordinary true story, with all the excitement and color of the best fiction.