World War II was the most deadly war in the history of human warfare, with 61 countries and 2 billion people involved in the war, resulting in more than 90 million total military and civilian casualties. One of the culprits in provoking this war was Nazi Germany and the leader of the Nazi Party, Hitler. During World War II, the first thing that came to mind when Hitler was mentioned was the word "demon head", but this demon head had many fanatical followers, and Hannah Leich, known as the first female pilot of the Nazis, was one of them.
Hannah Lech, born in 1912 in Hirschberg, Silesia, to a mid-class family, was a cute and beautiful girl from an early age, but she rarely spent energy on her dress, because her interests were occupied by "flying machines".
However, although the family conditions are good, it is not enough to buy a plane. Her first exposure to airplanes was at the glider school in Grünau, a suburb of Berlin, a specialty of her own choosing and the starting point of her decades-long flying career.
After completing her flight exam at Schüttegen Airport in Berlin in 1931 and receiving her pilot's license, Hannah returned to the Grunaut School to fly. It was not until September 1937 that he was recruited into the Luftwaffe.
Hannah entered the Luftwaffe and carried out a number of groundbreaking works, such as in October 1942, Hannah participated in the test flight of the Messerschmidt Me163 rocket-powered interceptor, the world's first practical rocket-powered aircraft. The maximum flight speed could reach nearly 950 kilometers per hour, which was the limit speed that could be achieved at that time.
But at the same time, it has also been manipulated for several years, and the risk factor has also increased in a straight line. During Hannah's fiftieth flight, the take-off and landing of the plane was stuck, and fortunately she thought of landing on the belly of the plane, but eventually caused her to suffer a facial injury and not to pass out, and before she fell unconscious, she also sketched out the cause of the failure.
Hannah then spent four months in the hospital before she fully recovered, and shortly after her recovery, on February 28, 1944, Citreel personally awarded Hannah the Iron Cross, First Class. Hannah was grateful, and she suggested that female pilots form a squadron and be incorporated into the Luftwaffe to assist in the operation.
If it could be achieved, Hannah would certainly be the captain of the flying team, but in the end this proposal was rejected. However, this did not dampen Hannah's fighting spirit, driven by fanatical Nazi ideas, she often participated in the research of some German suicide weapons, and many male pilots around her were killed in tests, only she survived with superb flying skills.
In 1945, it was already in the final days of the Second World War. At the end of April, Hitler ordered the removal of the title of Luftwaffe Commander-in-Chief Goering and the canonization of Grimm as Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force. Hannah single-handedly piloted the fighter. Glem, the commander-in-chief of the Air Force, carrying nothing, came to the crisis of Berlin and met Hitler. Hannah tried to persuade Hitler to leave but Hitler refused, hannah turned to persuade Gram, who was reluctant to leave. Hannah once again took off and flew with the Glem to the headquarters of Dönitz in the north.
On May 8, 1945, Hannah realized that Germany was falling apart, so she surrendered to the Allies, Hannah was sentenced to 15 months in prison, after her release Hannah still did not give up her love of flying, she published her autobiography "Fly, My Paradise" in 1951, until her death from a heart attack on August 24, 1979, creating more than 40 world records for motorless-powered aircraft in her lifetime.