Word: aschaffenburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ring, after the signing of the Armistice, refused to deliver to the Allies the planes he commanded, disobeyed his own German superior officers and hopped from city to city with the remnants of the Richthofen Escadrille until he finally ran out of gasoline and supplies in Aschaffenburg. That night, in the local Rathaus, Captain Göring took leave of his airmen with a toast which probably expresses his feelings to this day: "We must be proud of that which we have done! We must desire that another such struggle shall arise. We must never forget that desire...