by Clare Mulley
18 Ibid. p. 72.
19 Ibid. pp. 76, 77.
20 Deutsches Museum archive PERS/F/102228/2, Luftwelt [Air World], 10, Peter Riedel, ‘German Gliding in Argentina’ (1934), p. 175.
21 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 82.
22 Martin Simons, German Air Attaché: The Thrilling Wartime Story of the German Ace Pilot and Wartime Diplomat Peter Riedel (Airlife, 1997), p. 12.
23 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Jutta Rudershausen, ‘Frau über den Wolken: Ein Leben für Wissenschaft und Fliegen’ [Woman Above the Clouds: A Life for Science and Flying] (unpublished manuscript, nd), p. 40.
24 Norman H. Baynes, The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922–August 1939 (OUP, 1942), pp. 52, 59.
25 Elisabeth zu Guttenberg, Sheridan Spearman, Holding the Stirrup (Duell, Sloan, Pearce/Little, Brown, 1953)
26 Norman H. Baynes, The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922–August 1939 (OUP, 1942), p. 731.
27 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Natur und Geist: Monatsheft für Wissenschaft, Weltanschauung und Lebensgestaltung [Nature and Spirit: The Monthly Bulletin of Science, Philosophy and Lifestyle] 3.12 (December 1935).
28 Klara Schiller quoted in Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013), privately translated, p. 39.
29 Ibid.
30 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Paul von Handel, ‘Erinnerungen an Litta’ [Memories of Litta] (nd).
31 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Jutta Rudershausen, ‘Frau über den Wolken: Ein Leben für Wissenschaft und Fliegen’ [Woman Above the Clouds: A Life for Science and Flying] (unpublished manuscript, nd), p. 54.
32 C. G. Sweeting, Hitler’s Squadron: The Führer’s Personal Aircraft and Transport Unit, 1933–45 (Brassey’s, 2001), p. 20.
33 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 100.
34 Winston Churchill, Great Contemporaries (Odhams Press, 1947, first published 1937), pp. 206, 208.
35 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Paul von Handel, ‘Erinnerungen an Litta’ [Memories of Litta] (nd).
36 Konstanze von Schulthess, Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg: Ein Porträt [A Portrait] (Piper, 2009), p. 71.
37 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Paul von Handel, ‘Erinnerungen an Litta’ [Memories of Litta] (nd).
38 Elisabeth zu Guttenberg, Sheridan Spearman, Holding the Stirrup (Duell, Sloan and Pearce/Little, Brown, 1953), p. 184.
39 Count Berthold von Stauffenberg, Mulley interview (05.11.2014).
40 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Jutta Rudershausen, ‘Frau über den Wolken: Ein Leben für Wissenschaft und Fliegen’ [Woman Above the Clouds: A Life for Science and Flying] (unpublished manuscript, nd), p. 52.
41 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 83.
42 Ibid. p. 85.
43 Ibid. p. 91.
44 Ibid. p. 125.
45 Martin Simons, German Air Attaché: The Thrilling Wartime Story of the German Ace Pilot and Wartime Diplomat Peter Riedel (Airlife, 1997), p. 88.
46 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 105.
47 Ibid. p. 109.
48 Isolde Baur, A Pilot’s Pilot: Karl Baur, Chief Test Pilot for Messerschmitt (J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing, 2000), p. 27.
49 Ibid. p. 28.
50 Ernst Udet, Ace of the Black Cross (Newnes, 1935), p. 162.
51 Ibid. p. 243.
52 Deutsches Museum archive, 130/101, Walter Stender, ‘Politische Erklärung’ [Political Statement] (01.07.1947).
53 Deutsches Museum archive, 130/101, letter Horst von Salomon/Kaplan Volkmar (27.04.1947).
54 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 91.
55 Cooper C. Graham, Leni Riefenstahl and Olympia (Scarecrow, 2001), p. 75.
56 Bernd Rosemeyer, Elly Beinhorn’s son, interview, ZDF-History, ‘Himmelsstürmerinnen, Deutsche Fliegerinnen’ [Sky-Strikers, German Aviators] (2011).
57 Isolde Baur, A Pilot’s Pilot: Karl Baur, Chief Test Pilot for Messerschmitt (J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing, 2000), p. 72.
58 Britain’s Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain ‘Winkle’ Brown, BBC2 documentary (ed. Darren Jonusas ASE, Executive Prod. Steve Crabtree, 01.06.2014).
59 Eric Brown, James Holland interview, www.griffonmerlin.com (2012); and Eric Brown, Wings On My Sleeve: The World’s Greatest Test Pilot Tells His Story (Phoenix, 2007), p. 4.
60 Eric Brown, Mulley interview, West Sussex (18.03.2013).
61 Ibid.
62 Eric Brown, Wings On My Sleeve: The World’s Greatest Test Pilot Tells His Story (Phoenix, 2007), p. 3.
63 Eric Brown, Mulley interview, Chalke Valley History Festival (29.06.2013).
64 Helen Boak quoting the New York Times, Women in the Weimar Republic (Manchester University Press, 2013), p. 265.
65 David Clay Large, Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936 (W. W. Norton, 2007), pp. 290–91.
66 Janet Flanner, New Yorker, August 1936, quoted in Cooper C. Graham, Leni Riefenstahl and Olympia (Scarrow, 2001), p. 127.
67 A. Scott Berg, Lindbergh (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1998), p. 361.
68 David Clay Large, Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936 (W. W. Norton, 2007), p. 210.
69 Judy Lomax, Hanna Reitsch: Flying for the Fatherland (John Murray, 1988), p. 33.
4: PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS
1 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Melitta Schiller, DVL job reference (23.11.1936).
2 Ibid.
3 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013), privately translated, p. 40.
4 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Jutta Rudershausen, ‘Flugkapitän Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg’ (nd), p. 54.
5 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013), privately translated, pp. 40–41.
6 Judy Lomax, Hanna Reitsch: Flying for the Fatherland (John Murray, 1988), p. 75.
7 Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten (1937), quoted in Bernhard Rieger, ‘Hanna Reitsch: The Global Career of a Nazi Celebrity’ in German History: The Journal of the German History Society, vol. 26, no. 3, p. 388.
8 Deutsches Museum archive, 130/111, letter Hanna Reitsch/Herr Stüper (07.02.1974).
9 Eric Brown, speech, Chalke Valley History Festival (29.06.2013).
10 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 128.
11 Ibid. p. 132.
12 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013), privately translated, p. 48.
13 Nevile Henderson, Failure of a Mission: Berlin 1937–1939 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1945), p. 84.
14 Richard Perlia, Mal oben – Mal unten [Sometimes Up – Sometimes Down] (Schiff & Flugzeug-Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2011), p. 194.
15 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013), privately translated, p. 49.
16 Thomas Medicus, Melitta von Stauffenberg: Ein Deutsches Leben [A German Life] (Rowohlt, 2012), p. 154.
17 Count Berthold von Stauffenberg, letter to Thomas Medicus (21.05.2012).
18 Peter Hoffmann, Stauffenberg: A Family History 1904–1944 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008), p. 94.
19 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Paul von Handel, ‘Erinnerungen an Litta’ [Memories of Litta] (nd).
20 Count Berthold von Stauffenberg, Mulley interview (05.11.2014).
21 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Klara Schiller, ‘Memories of Klara Schiller’ (nd).
22 Konstanze von Schulthess, Nina Schenk Gräfin Stauffenberg: Ein Po
rträt [A Portrait] (Piper, 2009), p. 72; Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013), privately translated, p. 223.
23 Heidimarie Schade, Mulley interview, Berlin (01.10.2014).
24 Konstanze von Schulthess, Nina Schenk Gräfin Stauffenberg: Ein Porträt [A Portrait] (Piper, 2009), p. 87.
25 Nina von Stauffenberg quoted by Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013), privately translated, p. 223.
26 Papers in the Bavarian State Archives (Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv), quoted by Thomas Medicus, Melitta von Stauffenberg, Ein Deutsches Leben [A German Life] (Rowohlt, 2012), p. 155.
27 Nina von Stauffenberg quoted by Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013) (privately translated), p. 223.
28 Ibid.
29 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Paul von Handel, ‘Erinnerungen an Litta’ [Memories of Litta] (nd).
30 Judy Lomax, Hanna Reitsch: Flying for the Fatherland (John Murray, 1988), p. 46.
31 Nevile Henderson, Failure of a Mission: Berlin 1937–1939 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1945), p. 71.
32 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 137.
33 Ibid. p. 135.
34 Ibid. p. 135.
35 Ibid. p. 136.
36 Aeroplane Monthly, ‘Flugkapitän Hanna Reitsch’ (July 1985), p. 348.
37 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 139.
38 Angus Evening Telegraph, ‘Plane that Flies Backwards’ (04.11.1937).
39 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 139.
40 Hanna Reitsch in The Secret War, BBC (1977).
41 Deutsches Museum archive, 130/109, letter Karl Franke/Hanna Reitsch (1977/8).
42 Hanna Reitsch quoted in Blaine Taylor, ‘She Flew for Hitler’, Air Classics (February 1989), p. 68.
43 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 140.
44 Ibid. p. 141.
45 Angus Evening Telegraph, ‘Plane that Flies Backwards’ (04.11.1937).
46 Nottingham Evening Post, ‘Helicopter’s Amazing Performance’ (05.11.1937).
47 A. Scott Berg, Lindbergh (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1998), p. 368.
48 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Jutta Rudershausen, ‘Flugkapitän Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg’ (nd), p. 60.
49 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013), privately translated, p. 54.
50 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Jutta Rudershausen, ‘Flugkapitän Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg’ (nd), p. 64.
51 Paul von Handel quoted in Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013), privately translated, p. 101.
52 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Jutta Rudershausen, ‘Flugkapitän Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg’ (nd), p. 64.
53 Richard Perlia, Mal oben – Mal unten [Sometimes Up – Sometimes Down] (Schiff & Flugzeug-Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2011), p. 193.
54 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, anonymous press clipping.
55 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Jutta Rudershausen, ‘Flugkapitän Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg’ (nd), p. 54.
56 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013), privately translated, p. 61.
57 Richard Perlia, Mal oben – Mal unten [Sometimes Up, Sometimes Down] (Schiff & Flugzeug-Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2011), p. 236.
58 Richard Perlia, Mal oben – Mal unten [Sometimes Up – Sometimes Down] (Schiff & Flugzeug-Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2011), p. 135.
59 Bernd Rosemeyer, son of Elly Beinhorn and Bernd Rosemeyer, Mulley interview (23.09.2013).
60 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Jutta Rudershausen, ‘Flugkapitän Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg’ (nd), p. 44.
61 Judy Lomax, Hanna Reitsch: Flying for the Fatherland (John Murray, 1988), p. 47; Deutsches Museum archive, 130/111, letter Hanna Reitsch/Herr Stüper (07.02.1974).
62 Deutsches Museum archive, 130/111, letter Hanna Reitsch/Herr Stüper (07.02.1974).
63 Richard Perlia, Mal oben – Mal unten [Sometimes Up – Sometimes Down] (Schiff & Flugzeug-Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2011), p. 236.
64 AKG Images, 7-I1-34032602.
65 IWM, film archive, GWY 556, Deutsche Luftgeltung 1937 [German Air Retribution 1937] (1938).
5: HOVERING
1 Sophie Jackson, Hitler’s Heroine: Hanna Reitsch (History Press, 2014), p. 70; Judy Lomax, Hanna Reitsch: Flying for the Fatherland (John Murray, 1988), p. 46.
2 Winston Churchill, Great Contemporaries (Odhams Press, 1947, first published 1937), pp. 204, 210.
3 Oliver Lubrich, Travels in the Reich: Foreign Authors Report from Germany, 1933–1945 (University of Chicago Press, 2010), p. 160.
4 Bernd Rosemeyer, son of Elly Beinhorn and Bernd Rosemeyer, Mulley interview (23.09.2013).
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 www.omnibusarchiv.de ‘A Historical Review: The International automobile Show’ (IAA) and Mercedes-Benz (18.09.2010).
8 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 146.
9 Judy Lomax, Hanna Reitsch: Flying for the Fatherland (John Murray, 1998), p. 53.
10 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 144.
11 Ibid. p. 145.
12 Ibid. p. 144.
13 Ibid. p. 146.
14 Eric Brown, James Holland interview, www.griffonmerlin.com/ww2_interviews/captain-eric-winkle-brown
15 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 147.
16 Eric Brown, Mulley interview (18.03.2013); Eric Brown in Hanna Reitsch: Hitlers Fliegerin [Hitler’s Pilot], Interspot Film (dir. Gerhard Jelinek and Fritz Kalteis, 2010).
17 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 148.
18 Britain’s Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain ‘Winkle’ Brown, BBC2 documentary (01.06.2014).
19 Mail Online, Robert Hardman, ‘Hero who makes Biggles look like a wimp’ (07.05.2013).
20 Eric Brown, Mulley interview (18.03.2013).
21 Eric Brown in Hanna Reitsch: Hitlers Fliegerin [Hitler’s Pilot], Interspot Film (dir. Gerhard Jelinek and Fritz Kalteis, 2010).
22 Eric Brown, Mulley interview (June 2013).
23 Eric Brown, James Holland interview, www.griffonmerlin.com/ww2_interviews/captain-eric-winkle-brown
24 Eric Brown, Mulley interview (23.06.2014).
25 Ibid.
26 Eric Brown, Mulley interview (18.03.2013).
27 Ibid.
28 Eric Brown, Mulley interview, West Sussex (18.03.2013).
29 Mail Online, Robert Hardman, ‘Hero who makes Biggles look like a wimp’ (07.05.2013).
30 Eric Brown, Wings On My Sleeve: The World’s Greatest Test Pilot Tells His Story (Phoenix, 2007), p. 6.
31 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013), privately translated, p. 69.
32 Peter Gay, My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin (Yale, 1998), p. 120.
33 Fey von Hassell, A Mother’s War (Corgi, 1991), p. 56.
34 Dundee Courier, ‘Girl Glider Beats Day-Old Record’ (16.05.1938).
35 Thea Rasche, quoted in Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013), privately translated, p. 63.
36 Ernst Udet, Ace of
the Black Cross (Newnes, 1935), p. 229.
37 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013), privately translated, p. 65.
38 Ibid. p. 66.
39 Ibid. p. 68.
40 Thea Rasche, quoted in Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013), privately translated, pp. 63, 69.
41 Sarah Fraiman, ‘The transformation of Jewish consciousness in Nazi Germany as reflected in the German Jewish journal Der Morgen, 1925–1938’, in Modern Judaism (OUP, 2000) vol. 20, p. 52.
42 Martin Simons, German Air Attaché: The Thrilling Wartime Story of the German Ace Pilot and Wartime Diplomat Peter Riedel (Airlife, 1997), p. 29.
43 Ibid. p. 30.
44 Ibid. p. 11.
45 Judy Lomax, Hanna Reitsch: Flying for the Fatherland (John Murray, 1988), p. 59.
46 Virginia Cowles, ‘The 1938 Nuremberg Rally’ in Jenny Hartley, Hearts Undefeated: Women’s Writing of the Second World War (Virago, 1999), p. 12.
47 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 161.
48 Ernst Udet, Ace of the Black Cross (Newnes, 1935), p. 217.
49 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 159.
50 Martin Simons, German Air Attaché: The Thrilling Wartime Story of the German Ace Pilot and Wartime Diplomat Peter Riedel (Airlife, 1997), p. 40.
51 Ibid.
52 Judy Lomax, Hanna Reitsch: Flying for the Fatherland (John Murray, 1988), p. 57.
53 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom, Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 157.
54 Ibid. p. 158.
55 Ibid. p. 160.
56 Ibid. p. 161.
57 Neville Chamberlain, BBC radio broadcast (27.09.1938).
58 TNA, FO 371/21737, letter from Nevile Henderson (06.09.1938).
59 Nevile Henderson, Failure of a Mission: Berlin 1937–1939 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1940), p. 153.
60 Ibid. p. 154.
61 Ibid. p. 155.
62 Melitta Schiller, ‘Flight to England with Incidents’, Askania magazine, quoted in Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013), privately translated, p. 71.