Hanna Reitsch — The Pilot Who Flew Into Hitler's Bunker And Defended Him for 34 Years
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She flew into Hitler's bunker in April 1945, accepted a cyanide capsule from his hand, and defended him publicly until her death in 1979. 📖 Free WW2 reading list — my 30 essential books on the war and what came after. Get the PDF here: https://history-inside-8s3dsc.subscribepage.io/ 🎖️ Subscribe to History Inside → https://bit.ly/sub2HI Research & script by Jordy Faijdherbe Narration by Benjamin Pemberton Chapters 00:00 Records 03:08 Believer 05:34 Bunker 07:43 Unrepentant 📚 Primary sources - U.S. Air Force Intelligence — Interrogation Report on Hanna Reitsch (8 October 1945) - Hanna Reitsch — The Sky My Kingdom (reprint 2009) 📚 Secondary & critical sources - Jean Allman — Phantoms of the Archive: Kwame Nkrumah, a Nazi Pilot named Hanna, and the Contingencies of Postcolonial History-Writing," American Historical Review, vol. 118 no. 1 (Feb. 2013) - Clare Mulley — The Women Who Flew for Hitler (2017) Questions about any specific claim in this video? Ask in the comments below
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