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Dennis Donovan

(31,059 posts)
8. Yep. I guess some could not come to grips with how evil the Third Reich was...
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 12:11 PM
Sep 2017

Hanna Reitsch was another one. Very gifted pilot, but she could never bring herself to believe that the Nazis were evil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Reitsch#Last_interview.2C_1970.C2.B4s

Last interview, 1970´s
Reitsch was interviewed and photographed several times in the 1970s, towards the end of her life, by Jewish-American photo-journalist Ron Laytner. In her closing remarks she is quoted as saying:

And what have we now in Germany? A country of bankers and car-makers. Even our great army has gone soft. Soldiers wear beards and question orders. I am not ashamed to say I believed in National Socialism. I still wear the Iron Cross with diamonds Hitler gave me. But today in all of Germany you can't find a single person who voted Adolf Hitler into power ... Many Germans feel guilty about the war. But they don't explain the real guilt we share – that we lost.


Really, Hanna??

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