Hanna Reitsch was a famous German test pilot. Reitsch was born in Hirschberg, Silesia. She was the daughter of an ophthalmologist and was in training to become a medical doctor in 1932 when she left that field to pursue a career as a test pilot. In the 1930s she became famous, setting many glider, aerobatic and endurance records, being the first woman to cross the Alps in a glider. Several of her gliding records stand to this day. Wikipedia
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A great deal has been written about German aviatrix Hanna Reitsch over the years, much is made of her various exploits, but not everything she did warrants the fame that seems to have endured since the birth of Nazi Germany. www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/reitsch.html
News of the Odd: Odd news and headlines from around the world, and Today in Odd History., On February 28, 1944, Hanna Reitsch, Nazi Germany's celebrated female test pilot, suggested that Adolph Hitler should create a suicide squadron of glider pilots. www.newsoftheodd.com/article1011.html
