by Clare Mulley
Isolde Baur, A Pilot’s Pilot: Karl Baur, Chief Test Pilot for Messerschmitt (Schiffer, 1999)
Elly Beinhorn, Premiere am Himmel, meine berühmten Fliegerkameraden [First in the Sky: My Famous Aviator Comrades] (Langen-Müller, 1991)
——, Alleinflug: Mein Leben (Malik, National Geographic, 2011)
Nicolaus von Below, At Hitler’s Side: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Luftwaffe Adjutant 1937–1945 (Frontline, 2010)
Sigismund Payne Best, The Venlo Incident: How the Nazis Fooled Britain (Frontline, 2009)
Nancy Bird, My God! It’s a Woman: The inspiring story of Australia’s pioneering aviatrix (Harper Collins, 2002)
Dirk Bogarde, Cleared For Take-Off (Chivers, 1996)
Gerhard Boldt, Hitler’s Last Ten Days (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973)
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, The Secret Army: The Memoirs of General Bór-Komorowski (Frontline, 2011)
Eric Brown, Wings on My Sleeve: The World’s Greatest Test Pilot Tells His Story (Phoenix, 2007)
Sarah Churchill, Keep on Dancing: An autobiography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981)
Winston Churchill, Great Contemporaries (Odhams, 1947)
——, Step by Step: 1936–1939 (Odhams, 1949)
Otto Dietrich, Mit Hitler an die Macht: Personliche Erlebnisse mit meinem Führer [With Hitler to Power: Personal Experiences with My Leader] (F. Eher nachf, g.m.b.h., 1934)
Kurt Doerry & Wilhelm Dörr, Das Olympia-Buch [The Olympic Book], published on behalf of the German State Committee for Physical Exercise, with foreword by President von Hindenburg (Olympia-Verlag, Munich, 1927)
Walter R. Dornberger, V-2 (Hurst & Blackett, 1954)
Bernt Engelmann, In Hitler’s Germany: Everyday Life in the Third Reich (Schocken Books, 1986)
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (Penguin, 2012)
Peter Gay, My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin (Yale University Press, 1998)
Hans Bernd Gisevius, To The Bitter End (Jonathan Cape, 1948)
Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries, 1939–1941: the historic journal of a Nazi war leader, ed. Fred Taylor (Sphere, 1983)
——, The Goebbels Diaries: The Last Days, ed. Louis P. Lochner (Doubleday, 1948)
Elisabeth zu Guttenberg, Beim Namen Gerufen: Erinnerungen [Called By Name: Memories] (Harper, 1996)
——, Sheridan Spearman, Holding the Stirrup (Duell, Sloan and Pearce/Little Brown, 1953)
Reinhild Gräfin von Hardenberg, Auf immer neuen Wegen: Erinnerungen an Neuhardenberg und den Widerstand gegen der Nationalsozialismus [On New Ways: Memories of Neuhardenberg and the resistance against National Socialism] (Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg, 2002)
Fey von Hassell, A Mother’s War (Corgi, 1991)
——, Niemals sich beugen: Erinnerungen einer sonder gefangenen der SS [Never Bow Down: Memories of the Special Prisoners of the SS] (Piper, 1995)
Ulrich von Hassell, The Von Hassell Diaries: The Story of the Forces Against Hitler Inside Germany, 1938–1944 (Westview Press, 1994)
Sir Nevile Henderson, Failure of a Mission: Berlin 1937–1939 (Hodder & Stoughton, 1940)
Hajo Herrmann, Eagle’s Wings: The Autobiography of a Luftwaffe Pilot (Airlife, 1991)
Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Frontline Books, 2011)
Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour: Hitler’s Last Secretary (Phoenix, 2002)
Ursula von Kardorff, Diary of a Nightmare: Berlin 1942–1945 (Hart-Davis, 1965)
Erich Kempka, I Was Hitler’s Chauffeur: The Memoirs of Erich Kempka (Frontline, 2010)
Karl Koller, Der Letzte Monat: Die tagebuchaufzeichnungen des ehemaligen Chefs des Generalstabs der deutschen Luftwaffe vom 14 April bis zum 27 Mai 1945 [The Last Month: The Diaries of Karl Koller, former Chief of Staff of the Luftwaffe, 14 April to 27 May 1945] (Mannheim, 1949)
Heinz Linge, With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler’s Valet (Frontline, 2009)
Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, In the Bunker with Hitler: The last witness speaks (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005)
Hilde M., Girls: Your World, The German Girls’ Yearbook (Zentralv., Franz E., Gmbh, 1944), article ‘Hanna Reitsch: A Life for Flying’
Friedrich W. von Mellenthin, Panzer Battles (Tempus, 1956)
Richard Perlia, Mal oben – Mal unten [Sometimes Up – Sometimes Down] (Schiff & Flugzeug-Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2011)
Powys-Lybbe, Ursula, The Eye of Intelligence (William Kimber, 1983)
Hanna Reitsch, Aventures en Plein Ciel [Adventures in the Sky] (La Palatine, 1952)
——, Höhen und Tiefen: 1945 bis zur Gegenwart [Ups and Downs, 1945 to the present day] (Herbig, 1978)
——, The Sky My Kingdom: Memoirs of the famous German WWII Test Pilot (Greenhill, 2009)
Jana Richter and Hermann Graml (eds), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels: Oktober bis Dezember 1944 [The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels] (KG Saur, 1996)
Peter Riedel, Start in den Wind – Erlebte Rhöngeschichte 1911 bis 1926 [Take-off in the Wind: Rhön History Experienced 1911–1926] (Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 1977)
Leni Riefenstahl, A Memoir (St Martin’s Press, 1993)
Christa Schroeder, He Was My Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler’s Secretary (Frontline, 2009)
William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934–1941 (Gallahad, 1997)
Otto Skorzeny, Skorzeny’s Special Missions: The Memoirs of ‘The Most Dangerous Man in Europe’ (Greenhill, 2006)
Wolfgang Späte, Top Secret Bird: the Luftwaffe’s Me-163 Comet (Independent, 1989)
Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich (Sphere, 1971)
Ernst Udet, Ace of the Black Cross (Newnes, 1935)
Veronika Volkersz, The Sky and I (W. H. Allen, 1956)
Mano Ziegler, Rocket Fighter: The Story of the Messerschmitt Me-163 (Arms & Armour Press, 1976)
SECONDARY SOURCE PUBLICATIONS
Norman H. Baynes, The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922–August 1939 (OUP, 1942)
Cajus Becker, The Luftwaffe War Diaries (MacDonald, 1966)
Anthony Beevor, Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 (Penguin, 2003)
——, Ardennes 1944: Hitler’s Last Gamble (Viking, Penguin Random House, 2015)
A. Scott Berg, Lindbergh (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1998)
Helen L. Boak, Women in the Weimar Republic (Manchester University Press, 2013)
Gerhard Bracke, Melitta Gräfin Stauffenberg: Das Leben einer Fliegerin [The Life of an Aviatrix] (Herbig Verlag, 2013), privately translated by Barbara Schlussler
Bob Carruthers, Voices from the Luftwaffe (Pen & Sword, 2012)
Karl Christ, Der andere Stauffenberg: Der Historiker und Dichter Alexander von Stauffenberg [The other Stauffenberg: Historian and Poet Alexander von Stauffenberg] (C. H. Beck, 2008)
Arthur C. Clarke, Astounding Days: A Science Fiction Autobiography (Bantam, 1990)
Taylor Downing, Spies in the Sky: The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence during World War II (Little Brown, 2011)
Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich at War, 1939–1945: How the Nazis Led Germany From Conquest to Disaster (Allen Lane, 2008)
Joachim Fest, Plotting Hitler’s Death: The German Resistance to Hitler 1933–1945 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997)
Peter Fritzsche, A Nation of Flyers: German Aviation and the Popular Imagination (Harvard University Press, 1992)
Oscar Gonzalez, Thomas Steinke, Ian Tannahill, The Silent Attack: The Taking of the Bridges at Veldwezelt, Vroenhoven and Kanne in Belgium by German Paratroopers, 10 May 1940 (Pen & Sword, 2015)
Cooper C. Graham, Leni Riefenstahl and Olympia (Scarecrow, 1986)
Jenny Hartley, Hearts Undefeated: Women’s Writing of the Second World War (Virago, 1999)
Max Hastings, All Hell Let Loose: The World At War 1939–1945 (Harper Press, 2011)
Peter Hoffmann, German Resistance to Hitler (Harvard University Press, 1988)
——, Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905–1944 (McGill-Queen�
��s University Press, 2008)
Glenn B. Infield, Skorzeny: Hitler’s Commando (St Martin’s Press, 1981)
Sophie Jackson, Hitler’s Heroine: Hanna Reitsch (History Press, 2014)
Nigel Jones, Countdown to Valkyrie: The July Plot to Assassinate Hitler (Frontline, 2008)
Patricia Kollander, John O’Sullivan, I Must be a Part of This War: A German American’s Fight Against Hitler and Nazism (Fordham University Press, 2005)
Joachim Kramarz, Stauffenberg: The Life and Death of an Officer, 15 November 1907–20 July 1944 (André Deutsch, 1967)
David Clay Large, Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936 (W. W. Norton, 2007)
Annedore Leber, Conscience in Revolt: Sixty-four Stories of Resistance in Germany, 1933–1945 (Westview Press, 1994)
Celia Lee and Paul Edward Strong (eds.), Women in War: From Home Front to Front Line (Pen & Sword, 2012)
Robert Loeffel, Family Punishment in Nazi Germany: Sippenhaft, Terror and Myth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Judy Lomax, Hanna Reitsch: Flying for the Fatherland (John Murray, 1988)
Oliver Lubrich, ed., Travels in the Reich, 1933–1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Eva Madelung, Joachim Scholtyseck, Heldenkinder – Verräterkinder: Wenn die Eltern im Widerstand Waren [Hero Children – Traitor Children: Children of the Resistance] (C. H. Beck, 2007)
Thomas Medicus, Melitta von Stauffenberg: Ein Deutsches Leben [A German Life] (Rowohlt, Berlin, 2012)
Dorothee von Meding, Courageous Hearts: Women and the anti-Hitler Plot of 1944 (Berghahn, 1997)
Heiko Peter Melle, Ernst Probst, Sturzflüge für Deutschland: Kurzbiografie der Testpilotin Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg [Nosedives for Germany: a short biography of the test pilot Melitta Schenk Countess von Stauffenberg] (Grin Verlag, 2012)
Roger Moorhouse, Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital, 1939–45 (Vintage, 2011)
Sönke Neitzel, Tapping Hitler’s Generals: Transcripts of Secret Conversations, 1942–1945 (Frontline, 2007)
Michael J. Neufeld, The Rocket and The Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era (The Free Press, 1995)
——, Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008)
Robert E. Norton, Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle (Cornell University Press, 2002)
Dennis Piszkiewicz, From Nazi Test Pilot to Hitler’s Bunker: The Fantastic Flights of Hanna Reitsch (Praeger, 1997)
Gerald Posner, Hitler’s Children: Inside the Families of the Third Reich (Mandarin, 1991)
Sean Rayment, Tales from the Special Forces Club: The Untold Stories of Britain’s Elite WWII Warriors (Collins, 2003)
Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler (Macmillan, 1947)
Fabian von Schlabrendorff, The Secret War Against Hitler (Westview Press, 1994)
Konstanze von Schulthess, Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg: Ein Porträt [Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg: A Portrait] (Piper Taschenbuch, 2009)
Carole Seymour-Jones, She Landed by Moonlight, The Story of Secret Agent Pearl Witherington: the real ‘Charlotte Gray’ (Transworld, 2013)
Leslie Earl Simon, German Research in World War II: an analysis of the conduct of research (John Wiley, 1947)
Martin Simons, German Air Attaché: The Thrilling Wartime Story of the German Ace Pilot and Wartime Diplomat Peter Riedel (Airlife, 1997)
C. G. Sweeting, Hitler’s Personal Pilot: The Life and Times of Hans Baur (Brassey’s, 2000)
——, Hitler’s Squadron: The Fuehrer’s Personal Aircraft and Transport Unit, 1933–45 (Brassey’s, 2001)
Jeffrey Watson, Sidney Cotton: The Last Plane Out of Berlin (Hodder, 2003)
Robert Wohl, The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920–1950 (New Haven, 2005)
FICTION
Robert Harris, Fatherland (Arrow, 1993)
WEBSITES
www.20-juli-44.de
‘20 July 1944: Memories of a Historic Day’
www.aircrewremembered.com
Aircrew Remembered
‘Hanna Reistch: Luftwaffe Test Pilot and Aviation Record Holder’
www.alteadler.de
Alte Adler association official website
www.astronautix.com
Encyclopedia Astronautica, ‘Peenemünde’
www.ctie.monash.edu.au/Hargrave
Monash University website, ‘Hargrave: the pioneers’, collection:
Hanna Reitsch (1912–1979)
Melitta Schiller (1903–1945)
www.griffonmerlin.com
Griffon Merlin: James Holland’s Second World War Forum
Interviews with Eric Brown and Hajo Herrmann
www.historynet.com
History Net, ‘Hanna Reitsch: Hitler’s Female Test Pilot’
www.hpmelle.de/stauffenberg
Stauffenberg family memorial website
www.remember.org
A People’s History of the Holocaust and Genocide
Harry J. Herder, ‘Liberation of Buchenwald’ (nd)
www.romanoarchives.altervista.org
MISCELLANEOUS
Flight in a Twin Astir II, F-CFYI glider at the Aerodrome de Gandalou, Tarn & Garonne (August 2013)
Handwritten letter from Hanna Reitsch to Wernher von Braun’s NASA secretary, Julie Kertes, from collection previously owned by Julie Kertes, and sold on eBay’, accessed 30 April 2014
Stiftung Neue Synagogue [New Foundation Synagogue], Berlin, exhibition: ‘From the Outside to the Inside: the 1938 November Pogroms in Diplomatic Reports from Germany’ (May 2014)
Alexander Historical Auctions:
Letter Hanna Reitsch/Lutz Graf Schwein von Krosigk (13.05.1946)
Hermann Historica International Auctions (70th auction catalogue, May 2015):
Hermann Göring’s appointment diary (1943), lot 6140
Letter Hanna Reitsch/Albert Kesselring (29.02.1948), lot 6017
Picture Credits
Pagelink, pagelink, pagelink, pagelink: Public domain.
Pagelink, pagelink: Courtesy of the author.
Pagelink: © Heinrich Hoffmann/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
Pagelink: Archive Reinhart Rudershausen.
Pagelink: Courtesy of [Quellenvermerk]: TUM.Archiv der Technischen Universität München.
Pagelink, pagelink, pagelink: Archiv Gerhard Bracke.
Pagelink, pagelink, pagelink, pagelink, pagelink, pagelink, pagelink: © Archive H. P. Melle / Stauffenberg and Archiv Gerhard Bracke.
Pagelink, pagelink, pagelink: © Konstanze von Schulthess, private collection.
Pagelink, pagelink, pagelink: © akg-images / ullstein bild.
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Pagelink, pagelink: © ullsteinbild / TopFoto.
Pagelink: © C. E. Daniel collection.
Pagelink, pagelink: © de Waal family, private collection.
Pagelink: © Prof. Bernd Rosemeyer / Agentur Karl Hoeffkes.
Pagelink: © IWM (A 31014).
Pagelink: © INTERFOTO / Alamy Stock Photo.
Pagelink: © Heinrich Hoffmann/ullstein bild via Getty Images.
Pagelink: © Bundesarchiv.
Pagelink: © Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
Pagelink: © Robert R. Richards, The Ian Sayer Archive.
Index
NOTE: H is Hanna Reitsch, M is Melitta von Stauffenberg (Schiller)
‘Academic Fliers’ Group’ (Academic Flying Club) ref1, ref2
Alte Adler association ref1, ref2, ref3
Amsinck, Franz
career ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
death ref1, ref2n
flying accident ref1
relationship with M ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Arado 96 aircraft ref1, ref2, ref3
Ardennes offensive ref1
Armstrong, Neil ref1, ref2
Askania company ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Auschwitz camp ref1, ref
2, ref3n, ref4, ref5n
Babington Smith, Constance ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bad Sachsa children’s home ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
barrage balloons ref1, ref2
Baur, Eleanore ref1
Baur, Hans
Berlin landing strip ref1
in bunker ref1, ref2
Hitler’s death ref1
Hitler’s pilot ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
post-war career ref1
relationship with H ref1, ref2
Soviet detention ref1
Winter Olympics ref1
Baur, Isolde ref1, ref2
Baur, Karl ref1, ref2, ref3n
Beck, Ludwig ref1
Beinhorn, Elly
Chigwell aerodrome event ref1
displays ref1, ref2
flying career ref1, ref2
friendship with H ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
husband’s death ref1
relationship with Nazi regime ref1, ref2
reputation ref1
son ref1, ref2
Taifun aircraft ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Below, Nicolaus von
arrest by British ref1
H’s conversation with Hitler ref1
Hitler’s response to Eastern Front reports ref1
memories of D-Day landings ref1
memories of final stages of war ref1, ref2
memories of Hitler’s state of mind ref1, ref2, ref3
view of Eva Braun ref1
view of forced labour camps ref1n
view of Nazi past ref1
Benzinger, Dr Theo ref1
Berg, Edelgard von ref1
Bergen-Belsen camp ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bergmann, Gretel ref1
Berlin
air raids ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Jews deported ref1
Kristallnacht ref1
Soviet blockade ref1
surrender ref1
Berlin Aero Club
bomb damage ref1
H at ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
H’s apartment ref1
lounges ref1
M at ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Berlin Motor Show ref1, ref2
Berlin University ref1, ref2
Best, Sigismund Payne ref1, ref2
Bird, Nancy ref1
Birdseye, Clarence ref1n
Bland, Paul ref1
Blenk, Hermann ref1, ref2, ref3