Comments on: Aviation and Women’s Liberation http://greathistory.com/aviation-and-womens-liberation.htm The Best Blogging in History Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:58:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: tom goodrich http://greathistory.com/aviation-and-womens-liberation.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5491 tom goodrich Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:58:49 +0000 http://greathistory.com/?p=445#comment-5491 Great piece on Hanna. Truly she was an aviation heroine and pace setter, no matter what side of the war she was on, no matter who she admired, no matter where her post-war loyalties lay. A pity some small-minded, self-appointed history commissars see it as their duty to diminish achievement because they disagree with this or that person and their beliefs. A few days before war's end, Hanna--risking life and limb--flew into the teeth of Soviet flak during the Battle of Berlin and landed on a bomb-cratered city street. The hope was to rescue Hitler, the man she admired most on earth. I sense that our self-appointed history filter would deny such bravery since he disagrees with Hanna's politics. Now, to me, that is an item which not only "just seems to be wrong," but also seems "very dark," as well. History minus objectivity equals propaganda. Great piece on Hanna. Truly she was an aviation heroine and pace setter, no matter what side of the war she was on, no matter who she admired, no matter where her post-war loyalties lay. A pity some small-minded, self-appointed history commissars see it as their duty to diminish achievement because they disagree with this or that person and their beliefs. A few days before war’s end, Hanna–risking life and limb–flew into the teeth of Soviet flak during the Battle of Berlin and landed on a bomb-cratered city street. The hope was to rescue Hitler, the man she admired most on earth. I sense that our self-appointed history filter would deny such bravery since he disagrees with Hanna’s politics. Now, to me, that is an item which not only “just seems to be wrong,” but also seems “very dark,” as well.

History minus objectivity equals propaganda.

]]> By: Mike Halvorsen http://greathistory.com/aviation-and-womens-liberation.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2475 Mike Halvorsen Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:42:49 +0000 http://greathistory.com/?p=445#comment-2475 You said that Hanna Reitsch "was on the wrong side of WWII". That is really such an understatement, it's comparable to saying Mussolini "had a conservative slant". Reitsch was an out-and-out NAZI. She was known to be one of Adolf Hitler's female devotees, even after the war, when most prudent Nazis were either in South America in hiding or were being "de-Nazified"(Oh God....) Granted, she was a brilliant aviatrix, and a great test pilot, but let's not forget that she had a VERY Dark Side to her. To put her up in the pantheon of pioneering women without first pointing this out just seems to be wrong. You said that Hanna Reitsch “was on the wrong side of WWII”. That is really such an understatement, it’s comparable to saying Mussolini “had a conservative slant”. Reitsch was an out-and-out NAZI. She was known to be one of Adolf Hitler’s female devotees, even after the war, when most prudent Nazis were either in South America in hiding or were being “de-Nazified”(Oh God….)
Granted, she was a brilliant aviatrix, and a great test pilot, but let’s not forget that she had a VERY Dark Side to her. To put her up in the pantheon of pioneering women without first pointing this out just seems to be wrong.

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