2023-11-01 04:27:11
On April 28, 1945, Hanna Reitsch he honored the Iron Crosses that the Third Reich had given him throughout World War II. That day, the most famous test pilot of the ‘Luftwaffe’ undertook an impossible feat. After anti-aircraft batteries wounded the pilot of the Fieseler Fi 156 in which she was traveling towards Berlin besieged by the Russians, she took over the controls almost by magic. Then, in a display of enviable skill, she dodged the buildings almost at ground level and landed on the outskirts of the Chancellery.
Thanks to this brave thirty-year-old woman with black hair and a bulbous nose, Robert Von Greim was able to appear before Adolf Hitler to receive his position: head of a German air force that no longer existed. «The forty fighters that accompanied them were shot down one after another. The plane landed in Ost-West-Achse and glided with the landing gear destroyed. Knight Von Greim had a shot in the foot,” explained German general Otto Skorzeny in a somewhat exaggerated article published in ABC back in the 1950s. Reitsch, intrepid, repeated that feat by taking off shortly after and escaping the death trap posed by the Soviet artillery.
Persecuted
That feat haunted Reitsch until the end of his days. Not because of the skill that he demonstrated at the controls of the aircraft, but because gossip spread that, when he took off from Berlin, he had Mr. and Mrs. Hitler with him. That the Soviets admitted shortly afterwards the possibility that the ‘Führer’ had escaped by air or sea further inflamed the international situation. Damn; Yes, even the FBI and the CIA considered that the aviator had transported them to Magdeburg, in Germany, from where they would have left, in turn, to Denmark. A probability of which there are dozens of reports and which ABC published in 2015.
Reitsch denied the maxim a thousand times in her memoirs, tired of the insistence. «Legends were built about my last flights. Wouldn’t it be possible for him to take Hitler to a hiding place? She confirmed that the Allies tortured her with rifle butts to make her reveal the whereabouts of the ‘Führer’, but that she could not tell them anything. “I had no secret to tell,” he added. The test pilot spent fifteen months in a North American prison as a ‘high priority prisoner’; normal, since her fame had earned her a thousand and one covers in local and international newspapers. In the end, she was freed and she was able to move on with her life.
In the following years, it was possible to follow Reitsch’s aeronautical exploits through newspaper reports. In 1962, when she already had half a century of life behind her, ABC revealed that “the test pilot who helped Nazi technicians test their jet planes and bombing devices” had established a new female record for gliders. “Hanna flew following a triangular route 330 kilometers long in six hours and 28 minutes,” the newspaper added.
He only left the skies when he died in 1979. A year in which, by the way, he had broken a new record by traveling 805 kilometers in an airplane without an engine.
The myth is born
The theory that this female aviator saved the dictator was analyzed in 2015 by researcher Eric Fratinni in ‘Did Hitler die in the bunker?’. Its origin is in April 1945, when Hitler, finished and without a bit of the military glory that had accompanied him since the invasion of Poland, crouched inside the bunker. However, despite the inexorable Allied advance, neither he nor Eva BrauThey were, according to the official version, ready to leave Berlin. In fact, the ‘Führer’ and his girlfriend were determined to die alongside their combatants and not flee, leaving behind those brave men who died for them in the streets.
Hitler was in this situation when, as Frattini stated in his work, Germany made a desperate call for its best pilots to fly to Berlin. Among the airmen who received this message was Reitsch. The German woman set foot near the Brandenburg Gate after making a risky flight. Once in the remains of Berlin, she held a meeting with Hitler himself whose topic of conversation was a mystery. In the end, the official version says that he fled from Berlin.
However, Frattini published in his book a document prepared by Soviet intelligence in which, after interrogating the aviator, Stalin’s agents suggested the idea that the Nazi leader could have left with Reitsch on a plane. passengers. And, although the pilot pointed out in several parts of the interview that the ‘Führer’ had died (“Hitler is dead! The man I saw in the bunker couldn’t live,” as she said) she also made a statement in the later years that baffled secret services around the world:
«Wouldn’t it be possible that he took Hitler to a distant hiding place? Even today many continue to ask me those same questions, but I prefer to keep my mouth shut.
The report suggested that the couple boarded another plane with an experienced member of the ‘Luftwaffe’ who could have taken them to our country. «It is normal to talk about Spain as a point of escape. It must be taken into account that the Nazis’ main escape routes after the war were two. The first was that of the ‘Vatican corridor’ and, the second, the so-called ‘spider route’ through Spain. In fact, many Germans stayed here after the war,” the writer and journalist highlighted at the time. It was even noted that Hitler managed to reach the north of our country and modify his physical appearance and then flee more safely.
«In the 1960s, J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI, ordered military intelligence to investigate a strange story that claimed that a doctor in Spain had had Hitler as a patient and had performed cosmetic surgery on him. The hypothesis is documented because there are reports of it, but it is not subsequently proven,” Frattini completed in 2015.
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