by Clare Mulley
110. Correspondence:
— Hanna Reitsch/Karl Bode (1951–79)
— Hanna Reitsch/Herr Brockmann (1958–62)
— Hanna Reitsch/Fritz Edelhoff (1967–71)
— Hanna Reitsch/Herr von Barsewisch (31.08.1971)
— Hanna Reitsch/Gerhard Bracke (1973)
Karl Bode, ‘Darstellung der Vorführungen der Focke 61 in der Deutschlandhalle durch Frl. Reitsch im ‘Stern’ Nr 43’ [Report of the performances of the Focke 61 in the Deutschlandhalle by Miss Reitsch in ‘Star’ No. 43]
111. Correspondence:
— Hanna Reitsch/Walter Schauberger/Hanna Reitsch (1947)
— Hanna Reitsch/Ernst Straka/Blüm/Hanna Reitsch (29.07.1970)
— Hanna Reitsch/Friedrich Wackersreuth (18.09.1971)
— Fan mail/Hanna Reitsch (1974)
— Hanna Reitsch/Herr Stüper (07.02.1974)
— Hanna Reitsch/Rud. Hèdrich-Winter von Schwab/Hanna Reitsch (24.02.1976)
— Hanna Reitsch/Dr Elfriede Wagner (1976–77)
— Hanna Reitsch/Pater Karl-Theodor Wagner (1976–77)
— Hanna Reitsch/Ull Schwenger (1977)
— Hanna Reitsch/Fritz Stüber (15.06.1978)
123.
Letter Hanna Reitsch/Kurt Reitsch (1946)
136. Correspondence:
— Hanna Reitsch/Brazil Sudeten Club (14.01.1958)
— Hanna Reitsch/Theodore Heuss (1960)
— Hanna Reitsch/Erika Christl Greim (29.08.1974)
Wernher von Braun, ‘Wir Haben Allen Grund – Zu Beten’ [We have every reason – to pray] (nd)
139. Correspondence:
— Hanna Reitsch/Eleanore Baur (1978)
— Hanna Reitsch/Edda Göring (18.10.1978)
PERS/F/10228/1
Unknown publication, ‘Hanna Reitsch soll nicht in England fliegen’ [Hanna Reitsch should not fly in England] (13.07.1954)
Hanna Reitsch, ‘Ich Flog für Kwame Nkrumah’ [I Flew for Kwame Nkrumah] (nd)
Alte Adler member newsletter, Friedrich Stahl, Alte Adler president, speech at Hanna Reitsch’s sixtieth birthday party (Spring 1972)
PERS/F/10228/2
Newsprint articles including:
— Frau mit Herz [Woman with Heart] magazine, ‘The life story of the famous pilot Hannah Reitsch: Only up in the air could I feel free’ (nd)
— Luftwelt [Airworld], Peter Riedel, ‘Deutsche Segelflieger in Argentinien’ [German Glider Pilots in Argentina] (1934)
— Illustrierter Beobachter, ‘Segelfliegen! Reichsluftminister Generaloberst Göring hat Hanna Reitsch zum Flugkapitän ernannt’ [Gliding! Reich Air Minister Göring has appointed Hanna Reitsch as Flight Captain] (1937)
— Alte Adler newsletter, ‘Die Geburtstagsfeier Unseres Ehremitgliedes: Hanna Reitsch’ [The Birthday Party of our Honorary Member: Hanna Reitsch] (18.04.1972)
— Süddeutsche Zeitung, letter from Prof. Walter Birnbaum (15/16.09.1979)
Unknown publication articles:
— Dortmund newspaper, ‘Hanna Reitsch, “Alles Schwindel”: Sie soll Hitler nach Argentinien geflogen haben’ [‘Everything vertigo’: you should have flown Hitler to Argentina] (22.3.1950)
— ‘Warum Hanna Reitsch nicht nach England fuhr, Erklärung des Präsidenten des Deutschen Aero-Club’ [Why Hanna Reitsch is not competing in England, a statement by the President of the German Aero-Club] (14.07.1954)
THE PEENEMÜNDE HISTORICAL TECHNICAL MUSEUM
Permanent exhibition
PLÖTZENSEE PRISON MEMORIAL
Permanent exhibition
SCHLOSS LAUTLINGEN
Permanent exhibition
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH ARCHIVE
TUM entrance record for Melitta Schiller (1922)
Correspondence Melitta Schiller/TUM Professor (nd)
US ARCHIVES
CORNELL UNIVERSITY LAW LIBRARY: DONOVAN NUREMBERG TRIALS COLLECTION
US Forces report, ‘Last Letters from Hitler’s Air Raid Shelter’ (08.10.1945)
US Forces report, Hanna Reitsch interrogation, ‘The Last Days in Hitler’s Air Raid Shelter’ (08.10.1945)
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
Hanna Reitsch Personal File, RG319, 270, 84, 13, 7, box 633 (7362164, XE053525)
‘The Wind of Heaven Goes West’ (nd)
US Forces report, Hanna Reitsch, ‘Condemnation of Göring by Hanna Reitsch’ (16.11.1945)
US Forces report, Hanna Reitsch interrogation (04.12.1945)
Various papers relating to Hanna Reitsch, including:
— Memos relating to Operation Skylark (1946–7)
— US Forces, European Theater PR Division, release no. 794 (05.12.1945)
— ‘Censorship Civil Communications’, R. Storck to G. Rieckmann (21.08.1946)
— US Civil Censorship (Germany) (18.03.1947)
— ‘Hanna Reitsch pleads for General Kesselring’ at Nuremberg Trials (01.04.1947)
— ‘Agent Report’ (19.07.1948)
Newspaper cuttings, including
— Stars & Stripes, ‘German Woman Arrested at Border’ (24.05.1948)
— Overseas Weekly, ‘Adolf’s Flying Femme Back’ (28.02.1954)
PRIVATE ARCHIVES
ARCHIVE GERHARD BRACKE, GERMANY
Melitta Schiller’s diary (1943, 1944)
Correspondence:
— Melitta Schiller/Blenk (17.03.1935)
— Michael and Margarete Schiller/Hermann Göring (1942)
— Hanna Reitsch/Gerhard Bracke (1973)
— H. Schrank/Klara Schiller (14.03.1975)
— Hanna Reitsch/Klara Schiller (1975–7)
— Peter Riedel/Mrs J. Hacker (25.08.1980)
— Peter Riedel/Klara Schiller (1981–2)
Mika Stauffenberg, untitled account of Melitta Schiller (17.02.1962)
Philippa Countess von Thun-Hohenstein, ‘Memories of Melitta: personal impressions of Countess von Stauffenberg’ (07.07.2000)
Audio interviews:
— Klara Schiller, ‘Erinnerungen’ [Memories] (09.10.1982)
— Hubertus von Papen-Koeningen (10.08.1989)
— Peter Riedel and Klara Schiller (late 1980s)
Photos: various
JOHN MARTIN BRADLEY, COMBAT PILOTS OF WWII COLLECTION
(http://www.combatpilotsofwwii.com)
Interview with Captain Hein K. Gering (27.06.2009)
CAROLINE ESDAILE FAMILY PAPERS
Simon Reiss, ‘Remembering Kristallnacht’ (9.11.1998)
ARCHIVE H. P. MELLE / STAUFFENBERG, GERMANY
Alexander von Stauffenberg, Denkmal [Monument] (Stefan Georg Foundation, 1964)
Marie-Luise Lübbert, ‘Chronik der Familie Lübbert’ (nd)
Photos: various
BARBARA PASEWALDT, PRIVATE PAPERS, GERMANY
Alte Adler, obituary of Georg Pasewaldt (1988)
Georg Pasewaldt, ‘Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse einer Fliegerlaufbahn’, [Experience and Insights from a Flying Career] (nd)
ARCHIVE REINHART RUDERSHAUSEN, GERMANY
Correspondence:
— Michael Schiller/Hermann Göring (26.10.1942)
— Margarete Schiller/Hermann Göring (11.12.1942)
Melitta von Stauffenberg reports:
— ‘Abschrift’ [Report (on the presentation of her Iron Cross II)] (January 1943)
— ‘Vortag gehalten in Stockholm am 6.12.43: Eine Frau in der Flugerprobung’ [A Woman in Test Flying], Stockholm lecture (06.12.43).
Natur und Geist: Monatsheft für Wissenschaft, Weltanschauung und Lebensgestallung [Nature and Spirit: The Monthly Bulletin of Science, Philosophy and Lifestyle] 3.12 (December 1935)
‘Melitta Gräfin Schenk von Stauffenberg Lebenlauf’ [Resumé], DVL reference (23.11.1936)
Hermann Blenk, ‘Erinnerungen an Melitta Schiller’ [Memories of Melitta Schiller] (13.09.1974)
Paul von Handel, ‘Erinnerungen an Litta’ [Memories of Litta] (nd)
Lieselotte Hansen, ‘Memories of Lieselotte Hansen, née L
achman’ (nd)
Jutta Rudershausen, ‘Frau über den Wolken: Ein Leben für Wissenschaft und Fliegen’ [Woman Above the Clouds: A Life for Science and Flying] (nd)
—–, ‘Flugkapitän Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg: Von keinem Piloter erreicht’ [Peerless Pilot] (nd)
Klara Schiller, ‘Erinnerungen’ [Memories] (nd)
Marie-Luise (Lili) Schiller/Lübert, ‘Zweig Otto Eberstein’ [Otto Eberstein branch of the family]
Georg Wollé, ‘Erinnerungen eines Berufskollegen, der mit Melitta in der Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt angestellt war’ [Memories of a colleague of Melitta Schiller at the Institute of Aviation (DVL)] (11.02.1974)
Alexander von Stauffenberg, ‘Litta’ (handwritten poem, nd)
Painting: Gertrud von Kunowski, portrait of Margarete Schiller née Eberstein (1906)
THE IAN SAYER ARCHIVE
Correspondence:
— Margot Heberlein/Sigismund Payne Best (17.06.1946)
— Fey von Hassell (Pirzio-Biroli)/Sigismund Payne Best (28.07.1946)
— Hanna Reitsch/Herr Petzoldt (1957)
— Hanna Reitsch/Herr Brockmann (1958–62)
— Hanna Reitsch/Captain Barry Radley (1975–9)
Newspaper cutting, Barry Radley letter regarding Hanna Reitsch (27.11.1979)
STAUFFENBERG FAMILY ARCHIVE
Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, Generalmajor a.D., ‘A Childhood in the Third Reich – from System Conformist to Traitor’s Child’. Lecture delivered to the AV Rheinstein Köln-Lindenthal (14.04.2008)
Correspondence with Thomas Medicus (2012)
ANNE C. VOORHOEVE PAPERS
Otto Philipp von Stauffenberg, ‘Der 20. Juli und seine Folge’ [‘The 20th July and its Consequences’] (talk, nd)
Marie Gabriele ‘Gagi’ von Stauffenberg, ‘Aufzeichnungen aus unserer Sippenhaft 20. Juli 1944–19. Juni 1945’ (Notes from our Sippenhaft experience, 20 July 1944–19 June 1945) (nd)
PRESS, JOURNALS, FILM, TV AND RADIO
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PRESS
Aberdeen Journal
‘A German airwoman receives the Iron Cross’ (24.04.1941)
‘Pension for Widow of von Stauffenberg’ (26.11.1945)
Angus Evening Telegraph
‘Plane that Flies Backwards’ (04.11.1937)
Daily Mail
Robert Hardman, ‘Hero who makes Biggles look like a wimp’ (07.05.2013)
Daily Telegraph
Guy Walters, ‘The truth behind The Odessa File and Nazis on the run’ (1.12.2010)
Rob Crilly, ‘Rare German surrender order expected to fetch £20,000’ (26.04.2015)
Derby Daily Telegraph
‘Glider Pilots Fined: Speeding – in Motor Cars’ (08.05.1936)
Dundee Courier
‘Girl Glider Beats Day-Old Record’ (16.05.1938)
‘Overdue Air Girl Lands’ (24.09.1938)
Gloucestershire Echo
‘RAF Bombers Blast New Baltic Target’ (18.08.1943)
‘Himmler at Peenemünde’ (25.08.1943)
Nottingham Evening Post
‘Helicopter’s Amazing Performance’ (05.11.1937)
‘Echoes From Town’ (21.08.1943)
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE JOURNALS
Academia.edu
Helen L. Boak, ‘Women in Weimar Germany: The ‘Frauenfrage’ and the Female Vote’, p.1 www.academia.edu/498771/Women_in_Weimar_Germany_The_Frauenfrage_and_the_Female_Vote
Aeroplane magazine
‘Women’s Day at Chigwell’ (28.09.1938)
Barbara Schlussler, ‘Melitta Schiller’ (June 1999)
‘Flugkapitän Hanna Reitsch, 1914–79’ (June, July, August, September and October 1985)
Alexander Steenbeck, ‘The Man Who Flew With Stauffenberg’ (October 2011)
Air Classics
Blaine Taylor, ‘She Flew for Hitler! The story of Flugkapitän Hanna Reitsch and her aerial adventures in Nazi Germany’ (February 1989)
American Historical Review
Jean Allman, ‘Phantoms of the Archive: Kwame Nkrumah, a Nazi Pilot Named Hanna, and the Contingencies of Post-Colonial History-Writing’ (February 2013), 118 (1), pp. 104–29
Edit International Articles: A portfolio of some of Ron Laytner’s greatest stories
Ron Laytner, ‘Hanna Reitsch: Greatest Nazi Test Pilot and World’s First Astronaut’ (2010): http://issuu.com/edit_international/docs/publication_hanna_reitsch?mode=embed&documentId=090107212350-fe902db02968468fb93464edc07459de&layout=grey
German History: The Journal of the German History Society
Bernhard Rieger, ‘The Global Career of a Nazi Celebrity’, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 383–405 (Sage Publications, 2008)
History & Technology: An International Journal
Margot Fuchs, ‘Like fathers like daughters, professionalization strategies of women students and engineers in Germany 1890s to 1940s’ vol. 14, issue 1–2 (1997)
History Today
Roger Moorhouse, ‘A Good German? Von Stauffenberg and the July Plot’, vol. 59, issue 1 (2009)
Edgar Feuchtwanger, ‘I Was Hitler’s Neighbour’, vol. 62, issue 6 (2012)
History Workshop Journal
Maya Jasanoff, ‘Border Crossing: My Imperial Routes,’ Issue 64 (Autumn 2007)
JewishJournal.com
Alan Abrahamson, ‘Photos reveal anti-Semitism of 1936 Winter Games’ (1 March 2011)
Modern Judaism
Sarah Fraiman, ‘The Transformation of Jewish Consciousness in Nazi Germany as reflected in the German Jewish journal Der Morgen, 1925–1938,’ vol. 20, pp. 41–59 (OUP, 2000)
New Republic
Richard J. Evans, ‘The Life and Death of a Capital’, review of Thomas Friedrich’s Hitler’s Berlin (27.09.2012), http://www.newrepublic.com/book/review/abused-city-hitlers-berlin-thomas-friedrich
WWII Magazine
Nigel Jones, ‘Claus von Stauffenberg: the man who tried to kill Hitler’ (HistoryNet.com, 22.12.2008)
GERMAN-LANGUAGE PRESS AND JOURNALS
Der Adler [Luftwaffe magazine]
‘The Iron Cross for a Gallant Female Pilot’ (06.04.1943)
Askania-Warte magazine
‘Flight to England with slight problems along the way’ (24.09.1938)
Berliner Illustriete Zeitung
jg. 38, No. 42 (20.10.1929)
Der Speigel
Susanne Beyer, ‘Frau im Sturzflug’ [Woman in a Nosedive] (October 2012)
Die Welt
Hanna Reitsch, ‘Wie klein Mäxchen sich den Untergang des Dritten Reiches vorstellt’ [How the Little Maxes Imagine the Downfall of the Third Reich] (02.08.1973)
Die Zeit
‘Unrecht an Hanna Reitsch’ [Injustice to Hanna Reitsch] (22.07.1954)
Jutta Rudershausen [Melitta’s sister], ‘Täglich funfzehn Sturzfluge – Zu Unrecht vergessen: Flugkapitän Melitta Schenk Schiller war vor vierzig Jahren ein Pionier der Luftfahrt’ [Fifteen nosedives a day, falsely remembered: forty years ago Flugkapitän MSS was a pioneer of flight] (05.01.1973)
Nina Gräfin von Stauffenberg, ‘Wie das Konzept der Männer des 20 Juli 1944 aussah: Sie wollten Hitler nicht mit Stalin tauschen’ [Clarifying the concept of the men of 20 July: They did not want to replace Hitler with Stalin], no. 37, p. 26 (08.09.1978)
Schlesische Flieger Nachrichten 6 [Silesian Pilot News]
Klara Schiller, ‘Melitta Gräfin Schenk von Stauffenberg, née Schiller, 1903–1945’ in pp. 2–6 (05.1988)
BRITISH FILM, TV AND RADIO
BBC, The Secret War (1977)
BBC 2:
Operation Crossbow: How the Allies used 3D photography to thwart the Nazis’ super-weapons (2013)
The Lancaster: Britain’s Flying Past (20.07.2014)
Britain’s Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain ‘Winkle’ Brown (ed. Darren Jonusas ASE, Exec. Prod. Steve Crabtree (01.06.2014)
Channel Four, Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings (2013)
Sony Picture Classics, Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secre
tary, featuring Traudl Junge
Me-163 flown by test pilots Hanna Reitsch and Heini Dittmar
BBC World Service:
History Hour: The Death of Mussolini (03.05.2014)
Witness: The Plot to Kill Hitler (18.07.2014)
BBC Radio Four, Desert Island Discs: Eric Brown (14.11.2014)
GERMAN-LANGUAGE FILM, TV AND RADIO
ZDF (Germany):
Fliegen und Stürzen – Porträt der Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg, eine aussergewohnlichen Frau [Flying and Nosediving: a portrait of Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg, an exceptional woman] (6 January 1974)
Himmelsstürmerinnen, Deutsche Fliegerinnen – Ihre Rekorde und Tragödien [Women who stormed the sky, German women pilots, their records and tragedies], ARTE film by Bertram von Boxberg and Karin Rieppel (June 2011)
Interspot Film (Austria), Hanna Reitsch: Hitlers Fliegerin [Hitler’s Pilot] (dir. Gerhard Jelinek and Fritz Kalteis, 2010)
Im Toten Winkel: Hitler’s Secretarin [Blindspot: Hitler’s Secretary], a film by André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer (Traudl Junge interview)
MEMOIRS AND RECOLLECTIONS
Anonymous, A Woman in Berlin (Virago, 2013)
Constance Babington Smith, Evidence in Camera: The story of photographic intelligence in the Second World War (Sutton, 2004)
Gerda Erika Baker, Shadow of War (Lion, 1990)
Hans Baur, I was Hitler’s Pilot: The Memoirs of Hans Baur (Frontline, 2013)