Testimonial of Georg von der Osten

Testimonial of Georg von der Osten: ...a lot of chess was played. We were encouraged to do so by the artists who were to paint a portrait of von Richthofen. I cannot remember the name of the first, but the second was a certain Professor Reusing, an attractive man, who still portrayed my wife as a young girl. He joined us in Avesnes-le-Sec in January 1918 and was our guest for ten days. I often played chess with him. Prof Reusing made several sketches of von Richthofen, one of which showed him sitting in his plane with his pilot's cap on. When that drawing, a watercolour, was ready, we said, ‘That's not him!’. Thereupon the professor showed a photo (in fact, he had photographed him at the same time) and put it next to the drawing. Then we saw that the hat rather distorted the face. Incidentally, it is this photo that is printed on the title page of Adjutant Karl Bodenschatz's book (Jagd in Flanderns Himmel).