by Clare Mulley
2 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig, 2013), privately translated, p. 76.
3 Fey von Hassell, A Mother’s War (Corgi, 1991), p. 187.
4 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig, 2013), privately translated, p. 258.
5 Fey von Hassell quoted by Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig, 2013), privately translated, p. 240.
6 Gerhard Bracke archive, Hubertus von Papen-Koeningen interview (10.08.1989).
7 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig, 2013), privately translated, p. 239.
8 Gerhard Bracke archive, letter H. Schrank/Klara Schiller (14.03.1975).
9 Dorothee von Meding, Courageous Hearts: Women and the anti-Hitler Plot of 1944 (Berghahn, 1997), p. 196.
10 Fey von Hassell, A Mother’s War (Corgi, 1991), p. 163.
11 Ibid. p. 164.
12 Anne Voorhoeve archive, Otto Philipp von Stauffenberg, ‘Der 20. Juli und seine Folge’ (‘The 20th July and its Consequences’), p. 20.
13 Fey von Hassell, A Mother’s War (Corgi, 1991), p. 198.
14 Ibid. p. 205.
15 TNA, WO 328/37, Statement of Count Clemens von Stauffenberg, Capri (31.05.1945).
16 Ibid.
17 Fey von Hassell, A Mother’s War (Corgi, 1991), p. 209.
18 Ibid. p. 167.
19 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Klara Schiller, ‘Memories of Klara Schiller’ (nd).
20 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig, 2013), privately translated, p. 243.
21 Ibid. p. 76.
22 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Marie-Luise [Lili] Schiller/Lübbert, ‘Zweig Otto Eberstein’ [Otto Eberstein branch of the family] (nd); Archive R. Rudershausen, Jutta Rudershausen, ‘Flugkapitän Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg’ (nd).
23 Gerhard Bracke archive, Mika Stauffenberg, untitled account of Melitta Schiller (17.02.1962).
24 Thomas Medicus, Melitta von Stauffenberg: Ein Deutsches Leben [A German Life] (Rowohlt, 2012), p. 13.
25 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig, 2013), privately translated, p. 226.
26 Elisabeth zu Guttenberg, Beim Namen Gerufen: Erinnerungen [Called By Name: Memories] (Harper, 1996) p. 204.
27 Elisabeth zu Guttenberg, Sheridan Spearman, Holding the Stirrup (Duell, Sloan and Pearce/Little, Brown, 1953), p. 227.
28 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Jutta Rudershausen, ‘Flugkapitän Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg’ (nd).
29 Berthold von Stauffenberg, Lecture for the AV Rheinstein Köln-Lindenthal, ‘A Childhood in the Third Reich – from System Conformist to Traitor’s Child’ (14.04.2008).
30 Alfred von Hofacker quoted in Robert Loeffel, Family Punishment in Nazi Germany: Sippenhaft, Terror and Myth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), p. 181.
31 Alfred von Hofacker quoted in Eva Madelung, Joachim Scholtyseck, Heldenkinder – Verräterkinder. Wenn die Eltern im Widerstand Waren [Hero Children – Traitor Children: children of the resistance] (C. H. Beck, 2007), p. 35.
32 WWII Magazine, Nigel Jones, ‘Claus von Stauffenberg: The man who tried to kill Hitler’ (HistoryNet.com, 22.12.2008).
33 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig, 2013), privately translated, p. 243.
34 Gerhard Bracke archive, Hubertus von Papen-Koeningen interview (10.08.1989).
35 Harry J. Herder, ‘Liberation of Buchenwald’, http://remember.org/witness/herder.
36 Ibid.
37 Sigismund Payne Best, The Venlo Incident: A True Story of Double-dealing, Captivity and a Murderous Nazi Plot (Frontline, 2009), p. 187.
38 Eberhard Bethge’s biography of Bonhoeffer, quoted by Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig, 2013), privately translated, p. 253.
39 Gerhard Bracke archive, Hubertus von Papen-Koeningen interview (10.08.1989)
40 Ibid.
41 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig, 2013), privately translated, p. 250.
42 Ibid. p. 262.
43 The Ian Sayer Archive (unpublished at the time of writing).
44 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig, 2013), privately translated, p. 265.
45 Ibid.
46 Ibid. p. 266.
47 Ibid. p. 266.
48 Ibid. p. 266.
49 Ibid. p. 269.
50 Ibid. p. 269.
51 Ibid. p. 270.
15: LIBERATION AND DETENTION
1 Fey von Hassell, Niemals sich beugen: Erinnerungen einer Sondergefangenen der SS [Never Bow Down: Memories of the Special Prisoners of the SS] (Serie Piper, 1995), p. 181; Fey von Hassell, A Mother’s War (Corgi, 1991), p. 220.
2 Berthold von Stauffenberg, Lecture for the AV Rheinstein Köln-Lindenthal, ‘A Childhood in the Third Reich – from System Conformist to Traitor’s Child’ (14.04.2008).
3 Ibid.
4 Gerald Posner, Hitler’s Children: Inside the Families of the Third Reich (Mandarin, 1991), p. 185.
5 Ibid. p. 186.
6 Ibid. p. 186.
7 Ibid. p. 186.
8 Robert Loeffel, Family Punishment in Nazi Germany: Sippenhaft, Terror and Myth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), p. 181.
9 Alfred von Hofacker, quoted in Konstanze von Schulthess, Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg: Ein Porträt [A Portrait] (Piper, 2009), p. 172.
10 Eric Brown, Wings On My Sleeve: The World’s Greatest Test Pilot Tells His Story (Phoenix, 2007) p. 100.
11 Ibid. p. 97.
12 Eric Brown, James Holland interview, www.griffonmerlin.com.
13 Eric Brown, Wings On My Sleeve: The World’s Greatest Test Pilot Tells His Story (Phoenix, 2007), p. 98.
14 Eric Brown, James Holland interview, www.griffonmerlin.com
15 Eric Brown, Wings On My Sleeve: The World’s Greatest Test Pilot Tells His Story (Phoenix, 2007), p. 114.
16 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom: Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 255.
17 Ibid.
18 Erich Kempka, I Was Hitler’s Chauffeur: The Memoirs of Erich Kempka (Frontline, 2010), p. 78.
19 Ron Laytner, Edit International Articles: A portfolio of some of Ron Laytner’s greatest stories, ‘Hanna Reitsch: Greatest Nazi Test Pilot and World’s First Astronaut’ (2010).
20 Nicolaus von Below, At Hitler’s Side: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Luftwaffe Adjutant 1937–1945 (Frontline, 2010), p. 241.
21 US National Archives, Air Division HQ United States Forces in Austria, Air Interrogation Unit, interrogation of Hanna Reitsch: ‘The Last Days in Hitler’s Air Raid Shelter’ (08.10.1945), p. 12.
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid.
26 Gerhard Bracke archive, Hanna Reitsch/Klara Schiller correspondence (18.02.1975).
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid.
29 Ibid.
30 Karl Koller, Der Letzte Monat: Die tagebuchaufzeichnungen des ehemaligen Chefs des Generalstabes der deutsche Luftwaffe vom 14 April bis zum 27 Mai 1945 [The Last Month: The Diaries of Karl Koller, Chief of Staff of the Luftwaffe, 14 April to 27 May 1945] (Mannheim, 1949), p. 93.
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid.
33 Ibid.
34 Ibid.
35 Ibid.
36 The Telegraph, Rob Crilly, ‘Rare German surrender order expected to fetch £20,000’ (26.04.2015).
37 Karl Koller, Der Letzte Monat: Die tagebuchaufzeichnungen des ehemaligen Chefs des Generalstabes der deutsche Luftwaffe vom 14 April bis zum 27 Mai 1945 [The Last Month: The D
iaries of Karl Koller, Chief of Staff of the Luftwaffe, 14 April to 27 May 1945] (Mannheim, 1949), p. 98.
38 Ibid.
39 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom: Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 256.
40 Ibid. p. 257.
41 Karl Koller, Der Letzte Monat: Die tagebuchaufzeichnungen des ehemaligen Chefs des Generalstabes der deutsche Luftwaffe vom 14 April bis zum 27 Mai 1945 [The Last Month: The Diaries of Karl Koller, Chief of Staff of the Luftwaffe, 14 April to 27 May 1945] (Mannheim, 1949), p. 128.
42 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom: Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 257.
43 Ibid.
44 Hanna Reitsch: Hitlers Fliegerin [Hitler’s Pilot], Interspot Film (dir. Gerhard Jelinek and Fritz Kalteis, 2010).
45 Ibid.
46 Eric Brown, Wings On My Sleeve: The World’s Greatest Test Pilot Tells His Story (Phoenix, 2007), p. 119.
47 Ibid. p. 109.
48 Ibid. p. 119.
49 Ibid. p. 119.
50 Ibid. p. 119.
51 Eric Brown, Mulley interview (23.06.2014).
52 Eric Brown, Mulley interview (18.03.2013).
53 Eric Brown, Wings On My Sleeve: The World’s Greatest Test Pilot Tells His Story (Phoenix, 2007), p. 119.
54 Eric Brown, Mulley interview (23.06.2014).
55 Eric Brown, Mulley interview (18.06.2014).
56 Eric Brown, Mulley interview (23.06.2014).
57 James Holland, interview with Eric Brown, www.griffonmerlin.com
58 Eric Brown, Wings On My Sleeve: The World’s Greatest Test Pilot Tells His Story (Phoenix, 2007), p. 119.
59 Ibid. p. 119.
60 US National Archives, Air Division HQ United States Forces in Austria, Air Interrogation Unit, interrogation of Hanna Reitsch: ‘The Last Days in Hitler’s Air Raid Shelter’ (08.10.1945), p. 2.
61 Ibid. p. 8.
62 Ibid. p. 9.
63 Ibid. p. 9.
64 Ibid. p. 9.
65 Ibid. p. 9.
66 US National Archives, Air Division HQ United States Forces in Austria, Air Interrogation Unit, ‘Condemnation of Göring by Hanna Reitsch’ (16.11.1945), p. 6.
67 Ibid. p. 7.
68 Eric Brown, Mulley interview (18.03.2013).
69 US National Archives, Air Division HQ United States Forces in Austria, Air Interrogation Unit, ‘Condemnation of Göring by Hanna Reitsch’ (16.11.1945), p. 8.
70 Ibid.
71 US National Archives, Air Division HQ United States Forces in Austria, Air Interrogation Unit, interrogation of Hanna Reitsch: ‘The Last Days in Hitler’s Air Raid Shelter’ (08.10.1945), p. 8.
72 Ibid. p. 14.
73 US National Archives, Air Division HQ United States Forces in Austria, Air Interrogation Unit, ‘Condemnation of Göring by Hanna Reitsch’ (16.11.1945), p. 5.
74 Hanna Reitsch: Hitlers Fliegerin [Hitler’s Pilot], Interspot Film (dir. Gerhard Jelinek and Fritz Kalteis, 2010).
75 Deutsches Museum Archive, 130/123, letter Hanna Reitsch/Kurt Reitsch (1946).
76 Leni Riefenstahl, Leni Riefenstahl: A Memoir (St Martin’s Press, 1993), p. 320.
77 Ibid. p. 321.
78 Ibid. p. 320.
79 US National Archives, Air Division HQ United States Forces in Austria, Air Interrogation Unit, interrogation of Hanna Reitsch: ‘The Last Days in Hitler’s Air Raid Shelter’ (08.10.1945), p. 14.
80 Konstanze von Schulthess, Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg: Ein Porträt [A Portrait] (Piper, 2009), p. 152.
81 Gerald Posner, Hitler’s Children: Inside the Families of the Third Reich (Mandarin, 1991), p. 186.
82 Ibid. p. 187.
83 Fabian von Schlabrendorff, The Secret War Against Hitler (Westview Press, 1994), p. 333.
84 Ibid.
85 Fey von Hassell, A Mother’s War (Corgi, 1991), p. 243.
86 The Ian Sayer Archive.
87 Fey von Hassell, A Mother’s War (Corgi, 1991), p. 243.
88 Ibid. p. 245.
89 The Ian Sayer Archive, letter Fey von Hassell (Pirzio-Biroli) to Sigismund Payne Best (28.07.1946).
90 Fey von Hassell, A Mother’s War (Corgi, 1991), p. 247.
91 Gerald Posner, Hitler’s Children: Inside the Families of the Third Reich (Mandarin, 1991), p. 187.
92 Berthold von Stauffenberg, Lecture for the AV Rheinstein Köln-Lindenthal, ‘A Childhood in the Third Reich – from System Conformist to Traitor’s Child’ (14.04.2008).
93 Elisabeth zu Guttenberg, Sheridan Spearman, Holding the Stirrup (Duell, Sloan and Pearce/Little, Brown, 1953), p. 241.
94 Konstanze von Schulthess, Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg: Ein Porträt [A Portrait] (Piper, 2009), p. 157.
95 Dorothee von Meding, Courageous Hearts: Women and the anti-Hitler Plot of 1944 (Berghahn, 2008), pp. 196–7.
96 Ibid. p. 197.
97 Elisabeth zu Guttenberg, Sheridan Spearman, Holding the Stirrup (Duell, Sloan and Pearce/Little, Brown, 1953), p. 238.
98 Konstanze von Schulthess, Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg: Ein Porträt [A Portrait] (Piper, 2009), p. 174.
99 Elisabeth zu Guttenberg, Sheridan Spearman, Holding the Stirrup (Duell, Sloan and Pearce/Little, Brown, 1953), p. 264.
100 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom: Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 258.
101 Eric Brown, Mulley interview (18.03.2013).
102 Hanna Reitsch, The Sky My Kingdom: Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009), p. 258.
103 Ibid. p. 257.
104 Judy Lomax, Hanna Reitsch: Flying for the Fatherland (John Murray, 1988), p. 133.
105 Alexander Historical Auctions, www.alexautographs.com, letter Hanna Reitsch/Herr von Krosigk (13.05.1946).
106 Deutsches Museum Archive, 130/123, letter Hanna Reitsch/Kurt Reitsch (1946).
107 Ibid.
108 Ibid.
109 Archive Reinhart Rudeshausen, Klara Schiller, ‘Memories of Klara Schiller’ (nd).
110 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Marie-Luise [Lili] Schiller/Lübbert, ‘Zweig Otto Eberstein’ [Otto Eberstein branch of the family] (nd).
111 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Jutta Rudershausen, ‘Flugkapitän Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg’ (nd).
112 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Jutta Rudershausen, ‘Flugkapitän Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg’ (nd).
113 Elisabeth zu Guttenberg, Beim Namen Gerufen: Erinnerungen [Called By Name: Memories] (Harper, 1996) p. 214.
114 Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig, 2013), privately translated, p. 258.
115 Ibid. p. 270.
116 Archive Reinhart Rudershausen, Jutta Rudershausen, ‘Flugkapitän Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg’ (nd).
117 Konstanze von Schulthess, Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg: Ein Porträt [A Portrait] (Piper, 2009), p. 149.
16: REPUTATIONS
1 Patricia Kollander, John O’Sullivan, I Must Be a Part of The War: A German American’s Fight against Hitler and Nazism (Fordham University Press, 2005), p. 179.
2 Ibid. p. 180.
3 Ibid. p. 180.
4 US National Archives, XE053525, HQ US Forces, European Theater, file D-53525, subject ‘Operation Skylark, re. Reitsch, Hanna’ (15.02.1946).
5 US National Archives, XE053525, HQ US Forces, European Theater PR Division, release no. 794 (05.12.1945), p. 1.
6 US National Archives, XE053525, memo US/16,464.
7 US National Archives, XE053525, HQ US Forces, European Theater, file D-53525, subject ‘Operation Skylark, re. Reitsch, Hanna’ (15.02.1946).
8 US National Archives, XE053525, HQ CIC, US Forces, European Theater, Region III (Bad Nauheim) (15.10.1946).
9 US National Archives, XE053525, ‘Censorship Civil Communications’, R. Storck to G. Rieckmann (21.08.1946).
10 TNA, XE053525, British intelligence report quoted in US memo (2
2.10.1946).
11 US National Archives, XE053525, HQ CIC, US Forces, European Theater, Region VI (Bamberg) (23.11.1946).
12 US National Archives, XE053525, HQ CIC, US Forces, Region 1, memo subject ‘Operation Skylark’ (19.12.1946).
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
15 US National Archives, XE053525, HQ 970th CIC, US Forces, European Theater, memo subject ‘Reitsch, Hanna, D-53525’ (11.01.1947).
16 US National Archives, XE053525, US Civil Censorship (Germany) (18.03.1947).
17 US National Archives, XE053525, HQ 970th CIC, US Forces, European Theater, memo subject ‘Reitsch, Hanna, D-53525’ (11.01.1947).
18 US National Archives, XE053525, HQ US Forces, European Theater, file D-53525, subject ‘Operation Skylark, re. Reitsch, Hanna’(15.02.1946).
19 Deutsches Museum archive, 130/100, letter Hanna Reitsch/Dr Laternser (17.03.1947).
20 Deutsches Museum archive, 130/101, letter Horst von Salomon/Kaplan Volkmar (27.04.1947).
21 Nicolaus von Below, At Hitler’s Side: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Luftwaffe Adjutant 1937–1945 (Frontline, 2010), p. 11.
22 Deutsches Museum archive, 130/101, hand-drawn card (1947).
23 Deutsches Museum archive, 130/111, letter Elfriede Wagner/Hanna Reitsch (31.12.1948).
24 US National Archives, XE053525, US Civil Censorship (Germany) (07.03.1947).
25 Deutsches Museum archive, 130/100, letter Hanna Reitsch/Dr Laternser (17.03.1947).
26 Deutsches Museum archive, 130/100, letter Hanna Reitsch/Frau Jodl (1948).
27 Deutsches Museum archive, 130/101, Hanna Reitsch, ‘Eidesstattliche Erklärung’ [solemn declaration], affidavit for Otto Skorzeny (12.04.1948).
28 US National Archives, XE053525, US Civil Censorship, ‘Hanna Reitsch pleads for General Kesselring’ (01.04.1947).
29 Hermann Historica International Auctions, 70th auction online catalogue, lot 6017, letter Hanna Reitsch/Albert Kesselring (29.02.1948).
30 Deutsches Museum archive, 130/100–101, Hanna Reitsch statement (20.05.1948).
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid.
33 Ibid.
34 Ibid.
35 US National Archives, XE053525, ‘Agent Report’ (19.07.1948).
36 Ibid.
37 Konstanze von Schulthess, Mulley interview (25.11.2014).
38 Archive Reinhart Rudeshausen, Klara Schiller, ‘Memories of Klara Schiller’ (nd).