The women who flew for Hitler : the true story of Hitler's Valkyries

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The women who flew for Hitler : the true story of Hitler's Valkyries

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the true story of Hitler's Valkyries

Statement of responsibility

Clare Mulley

Language

eng

Summary

Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were strikingly attractive, courageous, ambitious women who fought convention to make their names in the male-dominated field of flight - both were pioneering test pilots and both were awarded the Iron Cross for service to the Third Reich. But they could not have been more different and neither woman had a good word to say for the other. Hanna was middle-class and distinctly Aryan, while Melitta, though from an aristocratic Prussian family, was part-Jewish, and while Hanna tried to save Hitler's life, begging him to let her fly him to safety in April 1945, Melitta covertly supported the most famous assassination attempt on the Fuehrer. Their lives constantly overlapped, offering a vivid insight into Nazi Germany and its attitudes to women, to class and to race. Clare Mulley gets under the skin of these two most distinctive and unconventional women, telling the full story of their contrasting yet strangely parallel lives, against a changing backdrop of the 1936 Olympics, the Eastern Front, the Berlin Air Club, and Hitler's bunker

Biography type

collective biography

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SALS

Dewey number

940.5449430922

Illustrations

illustrations
portraits
plates
facsimiles

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult

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