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April 21, 1933
"My brother Manfred. Even if a person is granted a long life, he will always remain to a certain extent a product of his origins and upbringing. But anyone who is called...
April 23, 1918
‘I read an extract from a prisoner interrogation that the Richthofen fighter squadron survived: ’A few days ago, one of the prisoners visited the grave of Rittmeister von...
August 21, 1917
"Presumably on the days before or after the emperor's visit to Markebeke, a parade took place. The location is uncertain, either Hertsberge or Deinze. It is certain that...
November 11, 1916
"(left to right) Sandel, Müller, MvR, Günther, Kirmaier, Imelmann, König, Höhne, Wortmann, Collin."
May 1, 1913
"On becoming a Lieutenant in 1912, Manfred's father gave him a fine mare which he called Santuzza. The life of a young officer in a regiment of Uhlans reqired him to exce...
April 21, 1933
"Its walls are covered with the linen scalps of fallen foes. They are the gaily painted red, white, and blue numbers and symbols cut from fighting planes that went down i...
October 28, 1926
Richthofens Grab in 1931
March 1, 2020
"In March 2020, the former nurse Käte, who had cared for Rittmeister von Richthofen in the military hospital in Kortrijk in July 1917, was found. Until now, it was assume...
January 1, 2007
Es gibt wieder ein Richthofen-Denkmal in seiner Heimatstadt Schweidnitz
January 1, 1937
einen riesigen Grabstein
September 24, 1917
Lt. Voss fallen
September 15, 1917
Lt. Wolff fallen
August 21, 1917
Dostler down
August 19, 1917
"On 19 August, General Ludendorff comes to visit to see the most daring pilots in the German army and to shake their hands. He can also take this opportunity to see the n...
July 18, 1917
Headaches
July 6, 1917
"In the afternoon, Bodenschatz, Dostler, Doering and Wolff pile into a car and drive there. ‘You can't speak to Mr Rittmeister,’ says the nurse. ‘Why not?’ all four shout...
July 2, 1917
JG I conference
July 2, 1917
‘The next morning at the crack of dawn, a field grey car left Cambrai in the direction of Kortryk and around noon that day, 2 July 1917, the new adjutant of Fighter Squad...
July 1, 1917
‘At the end of June 1917, an orderly burst excitedly into the soup that had just been placed on the table for the gentlemen of the Boelcke hunting squadron in a château n...
April 21, 1918
Richard Wenzl of JG I claimed that this photo was the one-but last one of MvR on 21 April 1918. The men seen here (left to right): Wolfram von Richtofen (Jasta 11), Edgar...
August 28, 1917
"17GW444 On 28 August 1917, the first Fokker Triplane was delivered to Richthofen's Geschwader. Werner Voss, leader of Jasta 10, flew the machine for the first time. Thre...
April 23, 1918
Abwurf der Todesmeldung durch englische Flieger hinter der deutschen Front
April 24, 1918
Telegramm von der Kaiserin
April 23, 1918
Grauenvoller Tag, furchtbarster Tag leines Lebens.