by Clare Mulley
Wasserkuppe ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Weber, Wilhelm ref1
Wenck, General ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Whittle, Frank ref1n
Widerstand (German anti-Nazi resistance) ref1n, ref2, ref3n, ref4, ref5
Wilde, Kurt ref1
Wilde Sau fighter unit ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Wilson, Woodrow ref1
Winterbotham, Frederick ref1
Wollé, Georg ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Wood, Sir Kingsley ref1
Work, Captain Robert ref1
Wright brothers ref1
Würzburg, University of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Ziegler, Mano ref1n, ref2, ref3
Zink, Georg ref1
List of Illustrations
1. Cover of the commemorative book of Hitler’s airborne election campaign, Hitler über Deutschland, by Heinrich Hoffmann and Josef Berchtold.
2. Hitler and his personal pilot, Hans Baur, studying a flight map beside their campaign tour aeroplane, April 1932.
3. Margarete Schiller with her children, 1912. From left: Klara, Otto, Jutta, Melitta (aged nine) and Lili.
4. Melitta’s student ID photo from the Technical University of Munich, 1922, and with her statement bob, Munich, c.1923.
5. The von Stauffenberg family: Claus, Berthold and Alexander, sitting in front of their parents, Lautlingen, 1924.
6. Nina and Claus von Stauffenberg, Bamberg, 1933; the year they married.
7. Wedding of Paul von Handel and Elisabeth, Countess von Üxküll-Gyllenband, 9 April 1931. Melitta is second from right, front row, next to Claus in uniform. Alexander is on the far left.
8. Hanna as a child, c.1916, and on a Garbaty collectible cigarette card from their ‘modern beauties’ series, c.1935.
9. Hanna in a Motanol F glider, c.1934.
10. Hanna in a Sperber Junior glider, Wasserkuppe, August 1936.
11. Hanna flying a glider at the 17th Rhön gliding competition on the Wasserkuppe, August 1936.
12. From left to right: Wolf Hirth, Hanna, Dr Walter Georgii, Peter Riedel and Heini Dittmar, c.1933.
13. Melitta cycling across the airfield by a Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, Gatow, 1934.
14. Melitta in conversation with ground crew beside a Junkers Ju 88, Gatow, 1934.
15. Elly Beinhorn with Melitta at Chigwell aerodrome, Essex, September 1938.
16. Ernst Udet lighting Elly Beinhorn’s cigarette on an airfield, date unknown.
17. 1936 Olympics poster advertising the ‘Great Flight Day’. Melitta performed aerobatics at this prestigious event.
18. Hanna demonstrating the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 Deutschland helicopter inside the Deutschlandhalle stadium at the Berlin Motor Show, February 1938.
19. Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown in the cockpit, date unknown.
20. Photograph of Hermann Göring personally inscribed to Hanna, 27 March 1941.
21. The Great War flying ace, Robert Ritter von Greim, who became the last commander of the Luftwaffe in April 1945.
22. Hitler presents Hanna with the Iron Cross, Second Class, 28 March 1941. Göring can be seen ‘beaming’, in Hanna’s words, ‘like a father permitted to introduce a prettily mannered child’.
23. Hanna gives the Nazi salute on an official visit to her hometown of Hirschberg, 5 April 1941.
24. Official photograph to mark the presentation of Hanna’s Iron Cross, Second Class. The pride and joy in this photograph could hardly present a greater contrast to Melitta’s equivalent picture.
25. Official photograph to mark the presentation of Melitta’s Iron Cross, Second Class, 1943. The ribbon of the Iron Cross is fashioned into a discreet bow.
26. Alexander von Stauffenberg in his Wehrmacht uniform, 1940.
27. Friedrich Franz Amsinck in Luftwaffe uniform with his Iron Cross, Pilot Badge and Wound Badge, c.1943.
28. Melitta and Alexander taking tea and boiled eggs, Würzburg, 1943.
29. Melitta in the cockpit of a Junkers Ju 88, date unknown.
30. Melitta at the drafting table, 1943. The ribbon of her Iron Cross is clearly visible on her jacket.
31. One of Melitta’s technical drawings, date unknown.
32. Claus with some of the von Stauffenberg children. From left: Claus’s daughter Valerie; Berthold’s children, Elisabeth and Alfred; and Claus’s son Franz Ludwig.
33. Melitta’s diary, 13–19 August 1944. These pages, written while in prison in Berlin, include Melitta’s dream about Franz Amsinck.
34. Fey von Hassell with her two sons, Corrado and Roberto, c.1943.
35. Otto Skorzeny during interrogation by the 307th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment of the American Seventh Army, 1945.
36. Joseph and Magda Goebbels and their six children from top left: Helga, Hildegard (Hilde), Helmut, Holdine (Holde), Heidrun (Heidi) and Hedwig (Hedda). Harald Quandt, Magda’s son from their first marriage, is on the right.
37. Wreckage of the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch that Greim and Hanna flew into Berlin on 26 April 1945. The Victory Column can be seen in the distance.
38. Nina and her children, Berthold, Franz Ludwig, Konstanze, Valerie and Heimeran von Stauffenberg, Lautlingen, summer 1947.
1. Cover of the commemorative book of Hitler’s airborne election campaign, Hitler über Deutschland, by Heinrich Hoffmann and Josef Berchtold.
2. Hitler and his personal pilot, Hans Baur, studying a flight map beside their campaign tour aeroplane, April 1932.
3. Margarete Schiller with her children, 1912. From left: Klara, Otto, Jutta, Melitta (aged nine) and Lili.
4. Melitta’s student ID photo from the Technical University of Munich, 1922, and with her statement bob, Munich, c.1923.
5. The von Stauffenberg family: Claus, Berthold and Alexander, sitting in front of their parents, Lautlingen, 1924.
6. Nina and Claus von Stauffenberg, Bamberg, 1933; the year they married.
7. Wedding of Paul von Handel and Elisabeth, Countess von Üxküll-Gyllenband, 9 April 1931. Melitta is second from right, front row, next to Claus in uniform. Alexander is on the far left.
8. Hanna as a child, c.1916, and on a Garbaty collectible cigarette card from their ‘modern beauties’ series, c.1935.
9. Hanna in a Motanol F glider, c.1934.
10. Hanna in a Sperber Junior glider, Wasserkuppe, August 1936.
11. Hanna flying a glider at the 17th Rhön gliding competition on the Wasserkuppe, August 1936.
12. From left to right: Wolf Hirth, Hanna, Dr Walter Georgii, Peter Riedel and Heini Dittmar, c.1933.
13. Melitta cycling across the airfield by a Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, Gatow, 1934.
14. Melitta in conversation with ground crew beside a Junkers Ju 88, Gatow, 1934.
15. Elly Beinhorn with Melitta at Chigwell aerodrome, Essex, September 1938.
16. Ernst Udet lighting Elly Beinhorn’s cigarette on an airfield, date unknown.
17. 1936 Olympics poster advertising the ‘Great Flight Day’. Melitta performed aerobatics at this prestigious event.
18. Hanna demonstrating the Focke-Wulf Fw 61 Deutschland helicopter inside the Deutschlandhalle stadium at the Berlin Motor Show, February 1938.
19. Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown in the cockpit, date unknown.
20. Photograph of Hermann Göring personally inscribed to Hanna, 27 March 1941.
21. The Great War flying ace, Robert Ritter von Greim, who became the last commander of the Luftwaffe in April 1945.
22. Hitler presents Hanna with the Iron Cross, Second Class, 28 March 1941. Göring can be seen ‘beaming’, in Hanna’s words, ‘like a father permitted to introduce a prettily mannered child’.
23. Hanna gives the Nazi salute on an official visit to her hometown of Hirschberg, 5 April 1941.
24. Official photograph to mark the presentation of Hanna’s Iron Cross, Second Class. The pride and joy in this photograph could hardly present a greater contrast to Melitta’s equivalent picture.
25. Official photograph to mark the pre
sentation of Melitta’s Iron Cross, Second Class, 1943. The ribbon of the Iron Cross is fashioned into a discreet bow.
26. Alexander von Stauffenberg in his Wehrmacht uniform, 1940.
27. Friedrich Franz Amsinck in Luftwaffe uniform with his Iron Cross, Pilot Badge and Wound Badge, c.1943.
28. Melitta and Alexander taking tea and boiled eggs, Würzburg, 1943.
29. Melitta in the cockpit of a Junkers Ju 88, date unknown.
30. Melitta at the drafting table, 1943. The ribbon of her Iron Cross is clearly visible on her jacket.
31. One of Melitta’s technical drawings, date unknown.
32. Claus with some of the von Stauffenberg children. From left: Claus’s daughter Valerie; Berthold’s children, Elisabeth and Alfred; and Claus’s son Franz Ludwig.
33. Melitta’s diary, 13–19 August 1944. These pages, written while in prison in Berlin, include Melitta’s dream about Franz Amsinck.
34. Fey von Hassell with her two sons, Corrado and Roberto, c.1943.
35. Otto Skorzeny during interrogation by the 307th Counter Intelligence Corps Detachment of the American Seventh Army, 1945.
36. Joseph and Magda Goebbels and their six children from top left: Helga, Hildegard (Hilde), Helmut, Holdine (Holde), Heidrun (Heidi) and Hedwig (Hedda). Harald Quandt, Magda’s son from their first marriage, is on the right.
37. Wreckage of the Fieseler Fi 156 Storch that Greim and Hanna flew into Berlin on 26 April 1945. The Victory Column can be seen in the distance.
38. Nina and her children, Berthold, Franz Ludwig, Konstanze, Valerie and Heimeran von Stauffenberg, Lautlingen, summer 1947.
About the Author
CLARE MULLEY is the award-winning author of two books, The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of One of Britain’s Bravest Wartime Heroines (Macmillan, 2012), which has been optioned for film, and The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb (Oneworld, 2009), which won the Daily Mail Biographers’ Club Prize. She has also contributed to The Arvon Book of Life Writing (Methuen, 2010). She lives in Saffron Walden, with her husband, three daughters and lurcher.
www.claremulley.com
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THE WOMAN WHO SAVED THE CHILDREN
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