What Happened to Germany's Best Fighter Pilots After WW2?
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What happened to Germany’s greatest fighter pilots after WW2? In today's video we discover the postwar lives of some of the legendary Luftwaffe aces like Erich Hartmann, Adolf Galland, Johannes Steinhoff, Günther Rall and Gerhard Barkhorn — from Soviet captivity and Argentina to the Bundesluftwaffe and NATO during the Cold War. 📖 Free WW2 reading list — my 30 essential books on the war and what came after: 👉https://history-inside-8s3dsc.subscribepage.io/ ☕ Support History Inside: 👉 https://buymeacoffee.com/HistoryInside Research & script by Jordy Faijdherbe Narration by Benjamin Pemberton Edit by Ryan CHAPTERS 00:00 From the Cockpit to a Soviet Cell: Erich Hartmann 03:05 The Fighter General Who Went to Argentina: Adolf Galland 05:30 Hitler’s Fighter Aces at the Top of NATO 07:52 The Politics They Couldn’t Leave Behind 📚 Some of the sources I used: - Toliver & Constable, The Blond Knight of Germany (1970). - Bundeswehr/ZMSBw, "Die Rudel-Affäre 1976". - HistoryNet interviews —
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