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Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Salzburg

2000-03-03

1943

have a very prominent cousin, and that is the aviator Hanna Reitsch, that yes, uh, famous sailing aviator and famous test aviator and was an ardent German patriot Her mother was a Tyrolean girl, her father was "a Preiss," so to speak, they always said that Reitsch Children: "We are Tyrolean Prussia!" And, and with which I was also very, very close friends and, uh, who visited me in hospital in Silesia. And there just was Stalingrad, and we were of course, that was the first deep shock. My father was the logical development that has never seen an opportunity for the war, but now I have myself seen, oops, this could perhaps also can not. And then I spoke with Hanna Reitsch, and said, "Yes, and in Tunis, North Africa, is the next Stalingrad, and the Americans have landed, and we will not, we will not, uh, spend can. And they begin to destroy our cities with airplanes? We have nothing to oppose them. The fleet is almost as if we the have nothing to oppose. "And then I have also asked as to wonder weapons and so on, and since they had already, as it was with Hitler when EK1, because, the Hitler you raved of the wonder weapons, and they knew very well where were the, and said, "But my guide, you talk about the grandchildren of an embryo," then one has told her so, that is their last, be the last time that they were in the Hitler vorlädt, and he was a little uncomfortable, and she also told me me.