Hitler's Heroine : Hanna Reitsch 〈2027〉

: Reitsch died in 1979 at age 67. To this day, a mystery remains as to whether she died of natural causes or finally used the cyanide pill Hitler had given her decades earlier.

Her devotion was most evident in the final days of the war. In April 1945, she and Generaloberst Robert von Greim flew a light aircraft into a besieged Berlin to reach the Führerbunker . She was among the last people to see Hitler alive and reportedly begged him to let her die with him. A Controversial Legacy Hitler's Heroine : Hanna Reitsch

Hanna Reitsch was a woman of radical contradictions: a diminutive, five-foot-tall aviator who became one of the most celebrated test pilots in history, and a fanatical Nazi who remained loyal to Adolf Hitler until the very end. Her life is the subject of the biography by Sophie Jackson , which explores how a gifted pilot became a symbol of the Third Reich's ideological fervor. The Rise of a Prodigy : Reitsch died in 1979 at age 67