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| rdfs:comment | - Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviator and the only woman awarded the Iron Cross First Class and the Luftwaffe Pilot/Observer Badge in Gold with Diamonds during World War II. She set over forty aviation altitude and endurance records during her career, both before and after World War II, and several of her international gliding records still stand in 2012. In the 1960s she founded a gliding school in Ghana, where she worked for Kwame Nkrumah.
- Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviatrix. A fervent follower of the Nazi Party, she helped flew Robert Ritter von Greim to the Chancellery in the last days of Hitler.
- Reitsch was born in Hirschberg, Silesia on 29 March 1912 to an upper-middle-class family. She had a brother, Kurt, and a sister. Although her mother was a devout Catholic, Reitsch and her siblings were brought up in the Protestant religion of their father, an ophthalmologist who wanted her to become a doctor. Interested in aviation, she thought she might become a flying missionary doctor in North Africa and studied medicine for a time at the Colonial School for Women at Rendsburg. She began flying gliders in 1932, and left medical school in 1933 at the invitation of Wolf Hirth to become a full-time glider pilot/instructor at Hornberg in Baden-Württemberg. She was soon breaking records, earning a Silver C Badge No 25 in 1934. She flew from Salzburg across the Alps in 1938 in a Sperber Junio
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| Row 4 info | - *Her perceived dumbness in the parodies
*Her derp face
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| Caption | - Hanna Reitsch's derp face.
- Hanna Reitsch greets well-wishers with the Hitler Salute in her hometown of Hirschberg; April 1941. Karl Hanke, Gauleiter of Lower Silesia, is at left.
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| Known For | - Aviatrix
- Only woman in World War II awarded:
* Iron Cross First Class Luftwaffe
* Pilot/Observer Badge in Gold with Diamonds
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| abstract | - Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviator and the only woman awarded the Iron Cross First Class and the Luftwaffe Pilot/Observer Badge in Gold with Diamonds during World War II. She set over forty aviation altitude and endurance records during her career, both before and after World War II, and several of her international gliding records still stand in 2012. In the 1960s she founded a gliding school in Ghana, where she worked for Kwame Nkrumah.
- Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviatrix. A fervent follower of the Nazi Party, she helped flew Robert Ritter von Greim to the Chancellery in the last days of Hitler.
- Reitsch was born in Hirschberg, Silesia on 29 March 1912 to an upper-middle-class family. She had a brother, Kurt, and a sister. Although her mother was a devout Catholic, Reitsch and her siblings were brought up in the Protestant religion of their father, an ophthalmologist who wanted her to become a doctor. Interested in aviation, she thought she might become a flying missionary doctor in North Africa and studied medicine for a time at the Colonial School for Women at Rendsburg. She began flying gliders in 1932, and left medical school in 1933 at the invitation of Wolf Hirth to become a full-time glider pilot/instructor at Hornberg in Baden-Württemberg. She was soon breaking records, earning a Silver C Badge No 25 in 1934. She flew from Salzburg across the Alps in 1938 in a Sperber Junior.
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