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...from attending in military dress. In its attempt to downplay Dönitz's death, however, the government inadvertently made an issue of it. The political far right, including West Germany's small but active neo-Nazi fringe, chimed in with praise for the late admiral. Kurt Reitsch, an old navy friend of Dönitz's who is arranging the funeral, criticized Bonn for overreacting. Said Reitsch: "The only uniforms there will be those worn by the police sent to monitor a group of old men paying last respects to a colleague...
...witch was tiny (95 lb.) Hanna Reitsch, famed glider and helicopter pilot (who was a U.S. National Air Races stunting favorite in 1938). The story: in 1942 V-1 had a tendency to shake off its wings. In a robot fitted with landing skids...
...Aviatrix Reitsch rode an empty explosive compartment, spying on the wings through a periscope. She found the trouble, was seriously injured after four days of such superwoman tests. For her pains: the Iron Cross, First Class...
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...Berlin, Pilot Hanna Reitsch climbed into an autogiro standing in Deutschland Halle, took off, sailed up to the cupola, circled the hall, landed where she started from...