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March 7th, 2016 
Awake Goy Personal achievement and heroism transcend ideology and politics. For this reason most of us, whilst not endorsing a cause, can honour those who serve it with extreme valour. Adolf Hitler was well known for paying tribute to foes that had fought and sometimes lost with distinction.
Only the small-minded deny courage such as that displayed by those who placed their faith in the Workers Reich. One such was the pioneering aviator Hanna Reitsch. Being privileged to meet the Reich leader before the Pyrrhic victory of his tormentors, the flier remarked;
It was the blackest day when we could not die at our Führer’s side. We should all kneel down in reverence and prayer before the altar of the Fatherland.
When asked to explain better what she meant by the term ‘altar’ she replied:
Why, Why, the Führer’s bunker in Berlin.
The doctor’s daughter, whose original career intention was to be a missionary flying doctor in Africa, went on to become one of the Reich’s most decorated aviation pioneers and test pilots.
Born in 1912 she won far too many awards to be listed here. Enough to say she was the first to cross the Alps in a glider and proceeded to wreck the awards skittle boards with other notable firsts. Not surprisingly, this extraordinary heroine of Europe earned international acclaim.
The Silesia born blonde, despite her pocket-sized 5’ 1”, took to the air as a fish takes to water. Her description for German aircraft was Guardians of the Doors of Peace. Throughout the Reich she was held up as a role model of female achievement.
It is unlikely that any woman in European history faced great dangers more often than did this fearless pilot. Towards the war’s end Hanna Reitsch became the only flier to survive suicide flights.
As Germany faced the destruction and merciless wrath of the allied armies, the unfaltering Hanna Reitsch soared high over shattered Berlin. In doing so she searched in vain for an escape route for the beleaguered Adolf Hitler. Landing on an improvised airstrip situated on Berlin’s Tiergarten her light aircraft was under constant fire from Red Army troops. By the time they landed their light aircraft her companion Robert Ritter von Greim had been wounded by ground fire.
Soon after landing, she and her companion picked their way through the debris and incoming fire to reach the bunker of the Reich’s Chancellery. On reaching the Führer’s refuge, Robert von Greim was promoted to General Field Marshall. Both fliers were provided with cyanide pills, which they accepted. Hanna and her companion prepared themselves to spend their last moments and die together with the Führer.
However, the German leader steadfastly refused their offer to share in his fate. Reluctantly, on April 28 1945, the pair returned to their aircraft through the on-going battle for Berlin. As their aircraft took to the air, Red Army troops, perhaps presuming the German leader to be aboard, attempted but failed to bring the aircraft down.
Robert von Greim took his own life three weeks after capture by the Americans. Hanna’s father took the lives of her mother, her sister, and her sister’s children before forfeiting his own. Death was far preferable to the fate that awaited the family, including children, had they fallen into the hands of the invaders from the east.
The indomitable woman aviator was interviewed several times in respect of her service to Hitler’s Reich. Hanna is quoted as saying:
And what have we now in Germany? A land 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 to me. But today in all Germany you can’t find a single person who voted Hitler into power. Many Germans feel guilty about the war. But, they do not explain the real guilt that we lost.
The full and inspiring story of Hanna Reitsch and many others like her is told in Mike Walsh’s beautifully illustrated Heroes of the Reich. In both book and Kindle eReader form it is available from Amazon Books.
Source Article from http://renegadetribune.com/power-transcends-ideology/
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