Ich flog mit Mächtigen | On April 22, 1945 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun escaped from Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, and escorted by six Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aircraft flying in delta formation, landed to safety at Ørland Airfield, near Trondheim, Norway. At the cockpit Hans Baur, Hitler's personal pilot. Captured by the Soviets in a hospital, Baur was of great interest to his captors, who believed he may have flown Hitler to safety before the fall of Berlin. They also believed he had information concerning stolen art. They especially wanted information concerning the plundering of the Amber Room, (Bernsteinzimmer), in Leningrad. He endured ten years of imprisonment in the USSR before being released on 10 October 1955 to the French where he was kept prisoner until 1957. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Baur On April 22nd ten transport aircraft flew out from Tempelhof Airport, in south-east Berlin, carrying prominent Nazis and their staff to Munich. The last passenger plane also left that day with passengers for Sweden. http://users.adam.com.au/bstett/SkepticsHitlerEscape145.html Hitler fled by Jet to Trondheim, by U-boat to Argentina and by whaling ship to New Swabia, really? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv7syb2Xu3c 1938 the Neu-Schwabenland (New Swabia) Expedition - Hitler takes the Holy Lance to Antarctica - Alfred Ritscher's secret expedition to Storfosna, Ørland, Trondheim, Norway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ET_o_r-deo In his last will and testament, dated 29 April 1945, Hitler named Admiral Karl Dönitz his successor as Staatsoberhaupt (Head of State), with the titles of Reichspräsident (President) and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_D%C3%B6nitz Ørland Main Air Station was built by the occupation forces in 1941 during the German occupation using prisoners of war. The Germans wanted an airfield so that they could interdict the allied convoys to Murmansk. At first, German Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condors were stationed here. In June 1942, a squadron of Junkers Ju 87 Stukas rebased here, later a squadron of Messerschmitt Bf 109s and then a squadron of Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighters. The Germans decided to expand the airfield and built a second runway in 1944. This was later made the main runway. 7000 Germans were stationed at Ørlandet during the war, with about 10 000 prisoners of war used as a work force. This meant that, at the end of the war, the Germans left a fully armed, defended airfield with docks, infrastructure and a cannon taken from the battleship Gneisenau. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98rland_Main_Air_Station Messerschmitt relied heavily on slave labour to produce much of the parts needed for these planes during the second half of World War II; these parts were assembled in an enormous underground tunnel system in Sankt Georgen an der Gusen, Austria. Slave labour was provided by inmates of the brutal KZ Gusen I and Gusen II camps, and by inmates from nearby Mauthausen concentration camp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt 1939 New Messerschmitt 109 Tested by the Luftwaffe-Amateur Film UnknownWW2InColor UnknownWW2InColor Uploaded on Jan 27, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7u8LEMA4Bw Summer 1939. Last days of peace in Europe. The Luftwaffe is testing the new Messerschmitt BF 109. 16mm Agfachrome amateur film. http://www.webalice.it/romanoarchives FAIR USE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIihX8USWD4 1941 Eva Braun's Trip to Italy UnknownWW2InColor UnknownWW2InColor Uploaded on Jun 18, 2008 http://romanoarchives.altervista.org/ Late Summer, 1941. Eva Braun, with her mother and her sister Gretl, takes a holiday in Italy, on the beach of Portofino. They travel by air on the late model personal Hitler's plane. At the cockpit Hans Baur, his personal pilot, him too courtesy of the Fuhrer himself! Private amateur Agfachrome film from the Eva Braun collection. Editing by ROMANO-ARCHIVES. This is a clip from the ROMANO-ARCHIVES' new website "Unknown World War 2 in Color"-"Home Front(s)" section. At: http://ww2incolor.altervista.org Visit also: http://romanoarchives.altervista.org/

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