Hanna Reitsch set a few dozen records, was the world’s first female helicopter pilot, the only woman to have ever flown a rocket plane (even if you don’t count the converted V-1, she flew the bizarre Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, which could move at 700 mph), and was one of the last people to see Hitler alive. He gave her a suicide pill.
Not having taken it, her main criticism of Hitler following his death and her capture was that he was incompetent.
She went on to spend time in India, the US (she met JFK at the White House) and Ghana, where she became very close with Kwame Nkrumah.
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