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Reitsch was among the very last people to meet Adolf Hitler alive in the Führerbunker in late April 1945. Reitsch set more than 40 flight altitude records and women's endurance records in gliding and unpowered flight, [2] [better source needed] before and after World War II.
The last scheduled flight of Deutsche Luft Hansa – from Berlin to Munich took place on 21 April 1945, but the aircraft crashed [12] shortly before the planned arrival, killing all 21 aboard. Another (non-scheduled) flight was performed the next day, from Berlin to Warnemünde , which marked the end of flight operations.
April 22 – The last flight in Deutsche Luft Hansa's history, a non-scheduled flight from Berlin to Warnemünde, takes place. After Germany surrenders in May, the Allies dissolve the airline and seize its aircraft.
The last remaining Germans were expelled between November 1949 [104] (1,401 people) and January 1950 (7). [196] Thousands of German children, called the "wolf children", had been left orphaned and unattended or died with their parents during the harsh winter without food. Between 1945 and 1947, around 600,000 Soviet citizens settled in the ...
English: Flight over the ruins of Berlin, July 1945 (Silent Record, audio commentary and subsequently inserted background noise removed). Français : Vol au-dessus des ruines de Berlin, juillet 1945 (enregistrement silencieux, commentaire audio et ensuite inséré élimine le bruit de fond).
The German National flight attendants were later taken over by Lufthansa when it acquired Pan Am's Berlin route authorities. Over the years other local flight attendant bases outside the US included London for intra-Europe and transatlantic flying, Warsaw, Istanbul and Belgrade for intra-Europe flights, a Tel Aviv base solely staffing the daily ...
Refugee trains leaving East Prussia were also extremely crowded, and due to the very low temperatures, children often froze to death during the journey. The last refugee train left Königsberg on 22 January 1945. [20] Berlin military writer Antony Beevor wrote, in Berlin: The Downfall (2002), that: [24]
Clausewitz was established in the 9 March 1945 document, Basic Order for the Preparations for the Defense of the Reich Capital (German: Grundsätzlicher Befehl für die Vorbereitungen zur Verteidigung der Reichshauptstadt), a 33-page document containing 24 separate points. The second point of the document, in full (translated) is: "The Reich ...