By Hans Baur
A embellished First international battle pilot, Hans Baur was once one of many prime advertisement aviators of the Nineteen Twenties ahead of being pitched into the thick of it as own pilot to a definite ‘Herr Hitler’. Hitler, who loathed flying, felt secure with Baur and might permit not anyone else to pilot him. accordingly, an intimate courting built among the 2 males and it truly is this, which provides those memoirs specific importance. Hitler comfy in Baur’s corporation and talked freely of his plans and of his genuine critiques approximately his buddies and allies. Baur was once additionally current in the course of the most salient moments of the 3rd Reich the Röhm Putsch, the arrival of Eva Braun, Ribbentrop’s trip to Moscow, the Bürgerbräukeller test on Hitler’s lifestyles and while warfare got here, he flew Hitler from entrance to entrance. He remained in Hitlers provider correct as much as the ultimate days within the Führerbunker. In a robust account of Hitler’s final hours, Baur describes his ultimate discussions with Hitler sooner than his suicide and his final assembly with Magda Goebbels within the tortuous moments earlier than she killed her 3 teenagers. Remarkably, all through all of it Baur’s loyalty to the Führer by no means wavered. His memoirs catch those occasions in all their attention-grabbing and anxious element.
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00 hours – and there was no wireless there to help me. I had to refuse the risk, and Hitler then agreed that we should fly on to Rechlin and land there so that he could speak in Stralsund. But the cars with his staff were already on the way to Warnemünde. From Kottbus, Berlin was informed, and the local Nazi groups en route were able to get into touch with the cars and divert them to Rechlin. 00 hours. 00 hours, but about thirty miles to the north of Berlin we received a wireless message forbidding us to land.
Later we were to go on to Bonn. Dr Goebbels was with us this time. On the way I was not pleased with the way my port engine was behaving, so when we arrived in Essen I asked Hitler for permission to fly back to Berlin, have a new engine put in during the night, and be in Essen again the following morning. But Hitler declared that he needed me urgently. ‘Let someone else fly it back to Berlin,’ he said. ’ 53 The first thing Hitler did in Essen was to visit Krupp, which he invariably did, to discuss this or that improvement in Germany’s armaments.
There were storms all the way, it appeared, but there was a likelihood that the weather would improve during the course of the night. Flying was inadvisable at the moment.