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The secretly Jewish pilot who won the Iron Cross testing Hitler's bombers 

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Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were very different women - but both became decorated test pilots in Nazi Germany. Reitsch, a fanatical Nazi, was the world’s first woman to fly a helicopter and even tested a manned version of the V1 flying bomb. Von Stauffenberg meanwhile, was an exceptional aeronautical engineer and test pilot for the Stuka dive bomber, but she was secretly part Jewish. In 1944, she played a part in an attempt on Hitler's life.
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In this video, author and broadcaster Clare Mulley explores their lives based on her book The Women Who Flew for Hitler.
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@seandobson499
@seandobson499 Год назад
It probably does not help if your brother-in-law tries to kill Hitler, she was arrested by the Gestapo, along with other members of the Von Staffenberg family, but released to continue with test flights. Millita Von Staffenberg was shot down by an American plane on the 8th of April 1945 and although she crash-landed her aircraft, she died two hours later, only one month before the war ended. Hannah Rietsch was an out-and-out Nazi till the day she died, but a very brave woman and a brilliant pilot and very likeable, as several videos in English show as she had very good English, at least towards the end of her life when the videos were made show. Just so you know, I am an ex-British soldier and members of my family died fighting the Nazis.
@MsGodsown1
@MsGodsown1 Год назад
@Sean Dobson the word 'nazi' is propaganda by the communists to belittle the National Socialist party. In reality it means simpleton and is like calling someone a limey or a cracker. History is a twisted mess and I am a junky for hidden history.
@davesherry5384
@davesherry5384 2 года назад
Well you need a bit more accuracy regarding the Vq1. She test flew a manned version to find out why they kept crashing on take off. This was long before the V1 suicide versions were proposed, also supported by Hannah.
@WH-um2gx
@WH-um2gx 2 года назад
Her biographies suggest that she was the co-sponsor of the V-1 suicide model.
@flammenjc
@flammenjc 2 года назад
3:30 you're not going to red out from simply doing a vertical dive, going down at 90degrees your body is still only subjected to 1G. You red out from pulling negative G, to do that you'd have to nose the plane down very sharply and not a single pilot will push the stick forward rapidly to achieve a vertical dive for bombing, as you make the controls light under a negative G load and can easily spin out of control. What they did is fly over the target using the window in the floor of the cockpit and then roll the plane over 180 into the inverted position and dive down vertically to the target maintaining a positive g load. Also the air-brakes weren't designed to pitch the plane up out of a dive, the plane itself was and in any case, the pilot would trim the plane before diving to ensure that if they blacked out they had a chance to make it out of there. The air brakes are simply designed to abate the speed in the dive so the airframe doesn't overstress and disintegrate.
@truecerium4924
@truecerium4924 2 года назад
The third famous female pilot in the Luftwaffe was Beate Uhse who held the rank of a Hauptmann (Captain), she was transferring planes to the front.
@truecerium4924
@truecerium4924 2 года назад
@pegamini innocently named "Specialist store for marital hygiene"
@martinbrode7131
@martinbrode7131 Год назад
@@truecerium4924 Etwas neben der Spur.....
@owensmith7530
@owensmith7530 2 года назад
It's interesting to compare this to the role of female WWII pilots in the UK and US, who frankly were treated terribly and had to lobby hard to even be allowed to make delivery flights in the ATA. Some could have been test pilots or fought in combat, but they were consistently denied the chance. Even the first allied women to fly a jet (Veronica Volkers delivering a Meteor) was done underhand by waiting until the senior bosses were away and then junior staff rostering her for a ferry flight. The only special instructions she got were there's an extra 0 on the revs, watch the fuel, and whatever you do land within half an hour or you'll have no fuel left.
@repealthepoorlaws6864
@repealthepoorlaws6864 Год назад
It's on record that the women in UK, after the men were sent to their slaughter, were banned from growing crops and forced to work in the ammo camps. Also, 10,000 Jamaicans were drafted to carpet bomb Europe. France wasn't even at war with the Allies and got carpet bombed in flying ambushes.
@BikingVikingHH
@BikingVikingHH 8 месяцев назад
It’s almost like the Germans were the good guys 🤔
@britbazza3568
@britbazza3568 2 года назад
The V1 or doodle bug as it was known was one bomb that scared the hell out of my Nan she used to tell me she would hear the unique sound of the engine then hope it wouldn't cut out near the area she was. Because after the engine cut she new the explosion wouldn't be far behind and people would die. She told me she was terrified every time she saw or heard a V1 overhead
@54mgtf22
@54mgtf22 2 года назад
My grandma lived in Tottenham and told the same story. She also lived in Southend where she watched Zeppelins going up the Thames.
@macker33
@macker33 2 года назад
Almost the exact same as to what my nan used say.
@waynebrinker8095
@waynebrinker8095 2 года назад
As a terror weapon, the V1 was more effective than the more advanced and powerful V2. A V2 went boom and people died. A V1 was similar, but it terrified everyone in a 10 mile radius well before the boom.
@160clive
@160clive Год назад
The Iron Cross was not NAZI Germanys highest award, it was the Knights Cross and that came in different grades. The highest was the Knights Cross Oak with Leaves, Swords and Diamonds in gold and only one of those was awarded to Hans-Ulrich Rudel, a Stuka pilot.
@atiboyful
@atiboyful 11 месяцев назад
In fact, there were 27 of Nazi Germany's highest award awarded during WWII
@jimmarshall807
@jimmarshall807 2 года назад
I cannot recommend Clare's book on these two extraordinary women enough. Based on Clare's book, I was left with very different feelings for them: Hanna's moral compass reflected the German regime of t he time until her death, Melitta with her Jewish heritage and close relationships with the von Stauffenberg family had very conflicting loyalties.
@TheClareMulley
@TheClareMulley Год назад
Thank you, I am delighted you enjoyed the book. It was the contrast between the women that was so fascinating.
@Clarendon400
@Clarendon400 14 дней назад
Author is a Zionist who hates Aryans.
@muneebak01
@muneebak01 2 года назад
Interesting story!
@54mgtf22
@54mgtf22 2 года назад
Love your work 👍
@IkeCrow
@IkeCrow 5 месяцев назад
Thanks for the interesting video. I didn't know about this other female pilot. I recommend reading Sophie Jackson's book Hanna Reitsch. According to the book, Hanna was not so much a sworn Nazi, but a strong patriot. To put it very simply: Hitler and his systems only enabled Hanna's dream to fly.
@MadMatt13
@MadMatt13 Год назад
Did a little digging on Melitta, her brother in law was the officer who (with others) planted the bomb in Hitler's bunker in an attempt to assassinate him. For this she and her family were all put in concentration camps. She was released and forced into work again. An American fighter plane shot her down as she was flying to locate her husband after he had been moved to another camp. Her aircraft was an unarmed trainer. Decent video but I feel that you should have mentioned these points as they are an important part of her story. An incredible woman.
@TheClareMulley
@TheClareMulley Год назад
Unfortunately this is only an edited part of what we recorded. The whole story will be given at my talk at the IWM festival at Duxford later this spring, and is told in detail in my book, The Women Who Flew for Hitler.
@lukefranklin7391
@lukefranklin7391 2 года назад
Cool Video.
@vernepavreal7296
@vernepavreal7296 2 года назад
Very interesting video I wish you could’ve told us a bit more of their subsequent stories Cheers
@owensmith7530
@owensmith7530 2 года назад
Hannah Reitsch was bitter about what happened to Germany after the war, complaining that all they did was make cars. She was a committed Nazi to the end and eventually killed herself in the 1960s.
@vernepavreal7296
@vernepavreal7296 2 года назад
@@owensmith7530 thanks for that Yes the video did say she was hardline and better do you know if she was involved involved in developing the V1 I understand a female flew the flying bomb before its usage or was it the other lady and do you know how the other lady got on a postWorld War II anyway thanks for the reply I always feel the personal stories are more interesting than the grim details of war PS if this is a bit truncated or miss arranged it’s because I’m a blind person and find input on a flat screen iPhone a bit challenging
@theswede5402
@theswede5402 Год назад
Reitsch story is a sad one, her entire family commited suicide in 1945 after learning they would be deported to the Soviet zone of Germany. Imagine the pain she had to live with for the rest of her life..
@malcolmmoy
@malcolmmoy Год назад
Read her book, it’s brilliant.
@theswede5402
@theswede5402 Год назад
Reitsch story ended very sadly, her entire family commited suicide in 1945 after learning they would be deported to the Soviet zone of Germany. Imagine the pain she had to live with for the rest of her life..
@TheClareMulley
@TheClareMulley Год назад
Her father killed the rest of her family, and then himself.
@FroggyFrog9000
@FroggyFrog9000 Год назад
holy s%i#
@repealthepoorlaws6864
@repealthepoorlaws6864 Год назад
@@TheClareMulley Are you aware of what the Soviets were doing to the Germans? Have you not heard film star Audi Murphy's testimony about it? My grandfather was in Berlin for the clean up, he was a Royal Marine, he never said a bad word about Germans, quite the contrary, which was very common among Tommy.
@stevetheduck1425
@stevetheduck1425 2 месяца назад
@@repealthepoorlaws6864 My father fought the Nazis in Italy, and as he put it, no-one was German when captured; they all claimed to be Austrian, Polish, even French. No German soldier captured wanted to be German. - and this was when surrendering to Brits. They knew all about the war crimes and the camps, they were often forced to contribute, or get put back in the front line. While any soldier would be sympathetic to that, when my father was 'in the sh*t' with the enemy, no quarter was given. No Brit wanted to be captured by someone who might turn out to be a rear-area Nazi.
@andrewhoward7200
@andrewhoward7200 Месяц назад
@@stevetheduck1425 Completely add odds with practically every other objective account . I was so impressed with recollections retailed to me of German soldiers honour and decency by family and friends I decided to move to Germany to find out more, I have happily lived here for over 20 years, continuing to collect both verbal and written memoirs which I hope one day to publish. Last week I interviewed one of the last eye witnesses, Ursula Haverbeck, before she goes to prison for questioning the official Holocaust narrative.
@sternencolonel7328
@sternencolonel7328 2 года назад
While not a test pilot a honorable mention should also go out to Beate Uhse
@raagtop363
@raagtop363 2 года назад
Outstanding bit of history!
@tihspidtherekciltilc5469
@tihspidtherekciltilc5469 2 года назад
"So what you're saying is..."
@jthomas4361
@jthomas4361 2 года назад
?
@grimmiekazuma2979
@grimmiekazuma2979 2 года назад
YES
@hulahands7833
@hulahands7833 Год назад
Yup
@philipprichardt8057
@philipprichardt8057 2 года назад
Beate Uhse was another female test pilot.
@TheClareMulley
@TheClareMulley Год назад
Beata Uhse was a ferry pilot, like the members of the British ATA, not a test pilot. You probably also know about her post-war career.
@MrShaneVicious
@MrShaneVicious 2 года назад
wow, Jewish and a Von Stauffenberg. She dodged two bullets.
@LaHayeSaint
@LaHayeSaint Год назад
Dr Mulley is a beautiful and articulate presenter who told the fascinating story of two pioneering women in the field of Nazi planes, who defied the Nazi ideals of "Kirche, Kuche und Kinder" for women, as well as the fact that one pilot was part Jewish, Melitta von Stauffenberg and was given honourary Aryan status. It was interesting throughout. Thank you ever so much.
@paulwiggins183
@paulwiggins183 2 года назад
Reitsch started the war testing the Gigant ?
@jonmcgee6987
@jonmcgee6987 2 года назад
She also tested some prototype Giro copters and helicopters.
@paulwiggins183
@paulwiggins183 2 года назад
@@jonmcgee6987 The narrator has implied that she began her relationship with the Luftwaffe testing this extremely heavy and risky "Gigant" project. Surely this is not in line with the facts. She has described in interview the extraordinary difficulty of flying that machine in glider configuration.
@ingridlinbohm7682
@ingridlinbohm7682 2 года назад
Interesting video apart from the anti German propaganda at the end. Reitsch flew in to Berlin at the end of the war and was far braver than I would have been.
@MinesAGuinness
@MinesAGuinness 2 года назад
'Anti-German propaganda'? Do you mean explaining 'the absolute hypocrisy of the Nazi regime'? That's hardly a controversial opinion, Ingrid - and far from 'anti-German propaganda'. I'm not sure how Hanna Reitsch flying to Berlin or to Timbuktu has any bearing upon that point. It's simply an irrelevant statement.
@wachtel6552
@wachtel6552 2 года назад
Explain.
@ingridlinbohm7682
@ingridlinbohm7682 2 года назад
Hanna Reitsch flew into Berlin when the Soviet army was occupying most of the city while the rest was being fought over. Her aircraft was shot at and the person who was sitting next to her had his foot wounded as it was landing. His foot was patched up before he saw Adolf Hitler and reported to him the military situation and received his orders. Reitsch then flew him out despite the fact that part of the floor of the aircraft was missing. This is why I consider her much braver than I am. Best wishes and let's hope we have peace rather than war.
@kbn2001
@kbn2001 2 года назад
Hanna Reitsch was one of the most outstanding characters in aviation of her age. From the testing of the Giant glider, to the pioneering helicopter flights, to the flight testing of the Komet to the incredible flight to Hitler’s bunker in Berlin in a Fieseler Storch. There are so many things to remark about her as an aviator.
@TheClareMulley
@TheClareMulley Год назад
@@ingridlinbohm7682 She was certainly very physically courageous, and a brilliant pilot as well. She was also a racist Nazi who did not have the moral courage to see the truth even in the 1970s.
@edmundduke1296
@edmundduke1296 Год назад
Bruh, she was 25% Jewish. The Nuremberg Laws define an Aryan as anyone 75% German. She was just as Aryan in the eyes of the State as Hitler.
@dhm7815
@dhm7815 Год назад
President John F. Kennedy once invited various aviatrixes to the White House for a special gathering of Women Pioneers of Aviation. One of the attendees was Hanna Reitsch. Mellitta von Stauffenberg was not "secretly Jewish". The Nuremberg Laws were complicated and quirky as to their definitions. Goebbels once needed an literal poster boy for the Wehrmacht and picked a soldier who had been in the invasion of France. His real name was Werner Goldberg but he used the nom de guerre of ---- Werner Goldberg. His family had converted to Christianity several generations back and that had sort of purified him. Hitler's Jewish Soldiers -- Mark Felton ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RRfCwrI--is.html
@TheClareMulley
@TheClareMulley Год назад
Melitta and her family initially tried to keep their Jewish heritage quiet, but she later accepted so-called 'equal to aryan' status. Hanna Reitsch was indeed at the White House event - there is a photo in my book, The Women Who Flew For Hitler. Thanks for your comments.
@repealthepoorlaws6864
@repealthepoorlaws6864 Год назад
Helene Meyer represented Germany in the 1936 Olympics and won a silver medal in sword fencing. She moved to the US in 1937 and back to Germany after the war. So, they can't al be that bad. I have to laugh at how the likes of the Dutch royal family 'fled' to England to seek refuge, it's like how Quisling has been made a traitor, yet he helped set up over 800+ food distribution places in the Ukraine to help counter the Holodomor, which was on course to head for Germany, and the Reich knew it. Hence Quislings utter respect for Germans and their cause.
@barryirlandi4217
@barryirlandi4217 2 года назад
Strangely how they didn't mention anything nasty about these two great German pilots.
@TheClareMulley
@TheClareMulley Год назад
There's much more in the book... The Women Who Flew For Hitler.
@HK-gm8pe
@HK-gm8pe 4 месяца назад
yes she did mention that Hanna Reitsch was a devoted nazi until her death....Melitta on the other hand was not...I totally understand why she worked for nazi regime , nobody cant say that " oh I would have never" if you have never been in a situation that she was in... she was such an interesting woman also I would like to remind that Stalin was just like Hitler...exactly the same only that Russians to this day are very proud of all the warcrimes Stalin committed ...and US commited warcrimes aswell...developed nuclear bomb and used it unnecessairly ...everybody did horrible stuff in WWII, doesnt matter in which side you were on
@ArjayMartin
@ArjayMartin 2 года назад
Hitler had 150,000 Jewish soldiers, including in the highest ranks.
@tihspidtherekciltilc5469
@tihspidtherekciltilc5469 2 года назад
Africans too that he personally recognized for actions worthy of the medal he presented them. Don't get me wrong though as my godfather had the serial number tattooed on his wrist which was my early in life introduction to evil after I asked why he had numbers on his wrist. He became an Ace a few times over after escaping.
@ArjayMartin
@ArjayMartin 2 года назад
@@tihspidtherekciltilc5469 what was he flying?
@tihspidtherekciltilc5469
@tihspidtherekciltilc5469 2 года назад
@@ArjayMartin I have no idea but I'll ask my father as they were golf buddies and neighbors up until I was 4. It was later at a pool party that I asked about the numbers.
@markgrehan3726
@markgrehan3726 2 года назад
Not really the Nazis classed people who were not Jewish as such just because an ancestor was it's the same as saying that if your Great Grandad was Spanish then you must be as well even though your Grandad, Dad, and you were born in Australia.
@ArjayMartin
@ArjayMartin 2 года назад
​@@markgrehan3726 You mean like someone who had a sole great great great great great great great grand dad that was African, and up until that stage the rest of the ancestors were born in what became the USA... that you are 'African American'? I is Jewish people who say that one is 'Jewish' only from the mothers side, under Halaka (Lore/Law)... remembering too that Hitler / Shicklegruber was Jewish (and born in Austria), and Winston Churchill (through his mum Jenny Jerome), Joseph Stalin (Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili), Karl Marx, Vlad Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), Leon Trosky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein), and FD Roosenvelt too. Germany got their popular 'academic racial purity theory' from the USA too, who also did the Belamy Salute during WW2, every day, to the flag, in classrooms across the country. The popular 'racial purity theorist' German Minister Alfred Rosenberg was also Jewish, as was Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. Sadly these things are covered over as it doesn't fit with the narrative. Hitler also lived with a Jewish Family and the administration had many 'honorary Aryans'. The German poster-boy for the ideal Aryan, and of ideal German soldier, was of Jewish Werner Goldberg. People get brainwashed with overly simplistic and false accounts of history to serve a narrative, instead of dealing with things how they really are.
@googlinstuff8910
@googlinstuff8910 2 года назад
The working women in Germany were always highly respected, by all. They were not disrespected, as you suggest. And, Hitler allegedly "decided" who was Jew, or Gentile - and alowed the hand picking of gifted people of every nation, regardless of race. Pretty scary place; I am glad I was not born then. I would not have done well.
@MrAnonymousRandom
@MrAnonymousRandom Год назад
Then why was work force participation by German women low compared to women from allied countries? If Germany had more workforce participation by women instead of telling them to stay at home and be mothers, they probably wouldn't have needed to resort to conscripted/slave/pow labour to the extent that they did.
@frankwhite3406
@frankwhite3406 2 года назад
Very Brave Ladies indeed!
@kylitoooooo
@kylitoooooo 2 года назад
Must be so proud of these women and all the death they caused
@TheClareMulley
@TheClareMulley Год назад
I think we need to research motivations and actions on all sides of the conflict; that does not make the interest an endorsement.
@amazingpowers6056
@amazingpowers6056 Год назад
Everybody dies someday
@kylitoooooo
@kylitoooooo Год назад
@@amazingpowers6056 not if you know jesus
@HK-gm8pe
@HK-gm8pe Год назад
@pegamini and dont forget the soviet russians who forcefully took the Baltics and then massivly murdered and deported people to siberian gulags ( their version of nazi death camps basically )...uyeah lets not forget that !
@richclarke1523
@richclarke1523 9 месяцев назад
England declared war first.
@andy242headhunter
@andy242headhunter 2 года назад
Hope they lived out the rest of their lives in pain & misery. Did it not register that they might be on the wrong side, they must of been intelligent which makes it all the worse.
@Pekskeh
@Pekskeh 2 года назад
You are narrow minded
@jonmcgee6987
@jonmcgee6987 2 года назад
@JZ's Best Friend Reitsch was actually interrogated by the great British test pilot Eric Brown after the end of the war.
@owensmith7530
@owensmith7530 2 года назад
Reitsch was bitter about the fate of Germany for the rest of her life and eventually killed herself.
@MinesAGuinness
@MinesAGuinness 2 года назад
Sadly, Hanna Reitsch lived a long and successful life, feted by world leaders and celebrated for her aviation achievements, whilst here complicity and her continued avowed loyalty to the Nazis was somehow downplayed. She maintained her Nazi values right up to the moment of her death, learning absolutely nothing, claiming that the Nazis hadn't perpetrated the Holocaust, and defiantly stating that the Nazis had been right all along.
@owensmith7530
@owensmith7530 2 года назад
@pegamini That is disputed, she may have taken a WWII suicide pill which either caused a heart attack or was simply reported as such.
@thunderboltpenetrator8498
@thunderboltpenetrator8498 2 года назад
They looks like the current day republican pony soldiers.... It's a job..... Socialism.
@cr8207
@cr8207 2 года назад
@@sternencolonel7328 yeah nah, not quite bro…
@tihspidtherekciltilc5469
@tihspidtherekciltilc5469 2 года назад
Far right was a term of projection that was used the same way it is today, as a means to make your own party appear to be better than they actually are. Funny how so many don't know that yet it's documented over decades starting in the early 1900s
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