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Old 1st Jan 2015, 01:16
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He's just a pilot - lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time to practice his vocation. Many fail to be that fortunate. Certainly doesn't deserve a K, nor do military brass, sports types, civil servants, celebrities or sycophantic hangers-on to contemporary culture.

Reitsch died in Frankfurt at the age of 67, on 24 August 1979, apparently after a heart attack. She had never married. That same month Eric Brown, a British test pilot who had known her before the war, was surprised to receive a letter from Reitsch in which she reminisced about their shared love of flying, the letter ending with the words; "It began in the bunker and there it shall end". Brown speculated that this may have referred to a suicide pact with von Greim, who may well have been Reitsch's lover: they had both been given cyanide pills by Hitler while in the bunker and Reitsch was known still to have hers. It is possible that she had made a pact with von Greim to follow him in committing suicide, albeit at a different time in order to dampen any rumours of their affair. Her death was announced shortly after Brown received this letter, which led him to wonder whether she had finally carried out her side of the pact and had used the suicide pill at last: apparently no post-mortem inquest was carried out on her body
A Nazi Reitsch may have been, but lesbians don't have male lovers.
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