Focke Wulf Fw 61 - luftwaffe test pilot Hanna Reitsch

In February 1938, it was demonstrated by Hanna Reitsch indoors at the Deutschlandhalle sports stadium in Berlin, Germany. It subsequently set several records for altitude, speed and flight duration culminating, in June 1938, with an altitude record of 3,427 m (11,243 ft) and a straight line flight record of 230 km (143 mi).

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[flon5flon]

Wasn't she hanged at Nurnberg??

[spottydog4477]

@flon5flon I dont think she was a criminal...she was just a miltiary flyer..and she lived till..umm... about 1977'ish............

[flon5flon]

@spottydog4477

So she didn't know like the majority of the Germans? (Sie hatte es nicht gewußt?).

Fortunately there were some Germans that knew and took their responsability.

[spottydog4477]

@flon5flon she was not SS not a NAZI not a jew hater. ...you cant blame EVERY German for the war..many did their duty for their country.......

[flon5flon]

@spottydog4477 I never met Herr und Frau EVERY. I know about Sophie Scholl, about those who sang Die Moorsoldaten ....usw. People can make choices. So called duty to one's country is no excuse to be on the wrong side

[spottydog4477]

@flon5flon USA bombed Vietnam killing thousands of civillians. Are ALL their Americans criminals too?

USA bombardierten Vietnam-Tötungtausenden civillians. Sind ALLE ihre Amerikaner Verbrecher auch?

[pedowife4kids]

Aside of the question who made the first helicopter it is really shameful for Berlin to destroy the Deutschlandhalle, which was under protection as historical building. It was the only or first exposition hall in which a flight demonstration was performed. Shame onto the senatoryship of Berlin!

[ollenhauer1]

wumens in sozialismuis better

[justjooniin]

She seems highly enthusiastic about aviation, great interview.

[izelxx1]

She really loved to fly; You can hear it in her voice ; She was a pragmatic person and so she just did what was needed so that she could fly; People seldom especially in that era questioned their country.

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@moriya2k2 And that says what? That she loved her country?

I dont like her personally, I just find this sentence hillarious.

[GenBanks]

Haha she seems so nostalgic for 1938

[moriya2k2]

@Walters78s Hannah Reitsch was a Nazi. In one of her last interviews, she said her biggest regret of WWII is that they lost.

[Pinkfacedmonkey02]

Hannah Reisch said the only guilt she felt about the war was, she felt guilty they lost.