The Women Who Flew for Hitler--#95 finished

I am not sure where I picked up this book but it was a really interesting and informative read.  A lot of information about Germany and what was going on there during WWII as well as the 2 women the book is based around.  Hannah Reitsch is the younger of the two and had really bought into the Nazi party policies even if she didn't formally join the party.  She lived beyond WWII and into the 1970s so had time to rethink and change her mind but seems like she didn't.  She was an adventurous flyer, starting with gliders and then airplanes and even the first type of helicopter.  Near the end of the war she was advocating suicide missions with German pilots but thankfully this didn't come about.  The fear of losing the war brought her and others to that.  Looking at how East Germany was treated by USSR there was probably reason for that fear.

The 2nd woman was Melitta von Stauffenberg.  She married into a sort of old royal family of Germany the von Stauffenberg but before doing this was already an aerospace engineer and doing test flying.  She was older and more experienced than Hannah and was a lot more technical in her flying.  During the war she was working on developing planes and equipment to safeguard the German pilots.  Melitta's background forced her to work hard and maybe stay more in the shadows--her side of the family was half Jewish.  Hard work is what she did, doing an enormous number to test flights diving to simulate bombing runs.  Unfortunately, at end of war she was flying around trying to track down her husband and her plane was shot down & she was killed--sorry, I guess spoiler alert should have been said--lol.

There is 1 WL for this book on PBS but right now this is a keeper.  I really enjoyed this book and the information it provided.  Just guessing but right now probably one of my top books read this year.