By Bob Walsh
Melitta von Stauffenberg
I caught a really interesting thing on the Smithsonian
Channel today. It seems that there was a very, very bright young female
aeronautical engineer and test pilot who was largely responsible for
the development of the Stuka dive bomber prior to WWII. She was also
Jewish according to the Nazi racial purity laws, thru her father's
family. She worked very hard to get a certificate of Aryan Equivalence
for herself and her siblings and was successful, keeping them out of the
camps. Apparently they didn't just hand those things out.
German Junkers Ju 87 “Stuka” dive-bomber.
She
was shot down and killed by an allied fighter plane towards the end of
the war. The 1 hr program did not specify whether or not it was a
combat mission or some other sort of flight. Her name was Melitta von
Stauffenberg. I admit I am surprised that anybody with a "von" attached
to her name would have Jewish background, but then again my technical
ignorance of such things is profound.
You learn something new every day, if you keep your brain open enough to receive the information.
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