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Homecoming
November 14, 1925
"In the middle of 1925, our family decided to transfer the mortal remains of Manfred v. Richthofen to Germany and bury them in his native soil. The initial intention was...
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To the brave and worthy opponent
April 23, 1918
"The Richthofen family received a detailed account of Richthofen's burial after his death from the British and American sides. It follows here: A high, deep tent had b...
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Roy Brown tells
April 22, 1918
‘A. Roy Brown, the Canadian captain whose bullet killed Manfred von Richthofen, said the following about the dogfight he had with Manfred von Richthofen and in which the...
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Message of General von Hoeppner
April 24, 1918
‘On the occasion of the death of Rittmeister Manfred Frhr. v. Richthofen, the Commanding General addressed the following telegram to Jagdgeschwader 1: ’The hope we all ha...
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Message of General von Hindenburg
April 24, 1918
"Painfully moved by the news that your son has given his life for his fatherland, I offer you and your wife my deepest condolences. He will live on in the memory of the G...
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Message of Kaiser Wilhelm II
April 24, 1918
"Major Freiherr von Richthofen, local commander in... To my great sadness, I have just received word from the Commanding General of the Air Force that your brave son, Rit...
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Army report
April 24, 1918
"Rittmeister Freiherr von Richthofen has not returned from pursuing an enemy over the battlefield on the Somme. According to an English report, he has been killed."
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The manor house is haunted
May 2, 1905
"He didn't underestimate the danger, but it didn't play a role in his life. That was the case from an early age. The girls claimed that the manor house was haunted. A ser...
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Manfred was extremely truthful
May 2, 1904
"Manfred was extremely truthful. Even today, my mother cannot praise the extent to which my parents could always rely on him. He gave precise and clear answers to every q...
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I want to become a pilot
May 30, 1915
"When he joined the air force in May 1915, he literally answered my question as to why he had decided to do so: 'I don't want to be just an observer, I want to be an aero...
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At that time he wanted to be a great cavalry general
August 1, 1903
"That's how Manfred got through his time as a cadet, even though this type of education and youthful treatment didn't suit him too well. But he gritted his teeth and neve...
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I did that myself
May 2, 1900
"Because from the earliest days of his youth, Manfred had already shown samples of unusual energy. As an eight-year-old boy, my parents were expecting him one day from th...
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No racing, instead war
July 28, 1914
"His ambition was to ride in big races in Breslau and in the capital of the Reich. For this purpose he had acquired a thoroughbred named Antithesis. But on the same day t...
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Kaiserpreisritt
May 1, 1913
"Manfred has won many great prizes in show jumping competitions and cross-country rides. Most recently in the Kaiserpreisritt in 1913."
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Passion for equestrian sports
November 20, 1912
"When Manfred was commissioned as a junior officer in the Ulan Regiment No. 1, Emperor Alexander III, he became even more passionate about equestrian sports than before....
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Knee injury in the cadet corps
September 1, 1903
"Manfred only caused my parents serious concern once. He had suffered a serious knee injury in the cadet corps. A piece of cartilage in his knee had torn loose during a f...
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MvR eight years old
May 2, 1900
"When he was eight years old, he climbed the largest apple trees on the estate, which hardly anyone else could reach. But then he didn't let himself down from the trunk,...
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Introduction by Bolko Freiherr von Richthofen to the 1933 reprint of The Red Fighter Pilot.
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 call...
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A gray service envelope
March 10, 1918
"And when the adjutant left the scissor telescope for a quarter of an hour to conduct the necessary paperwork in the staff barracks, his eyes would more than once glance...
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Prisoner interrogation
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...
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MvR visits Lothar
June 19, 1917
"Lothar is already feeling much better. Manfred visited him in Hamburg."
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Telegrams
May 14, 1917
"A telegram arrived from Manfred. I opened it and read that Lothar had been wounded in the hip after shooting down his twenty-fourth opponent; his condition was not serio...
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English bounty for a German pilot
May 4, 1917
"WTB (Wollfs Telegraphisches Bureau). Berlin, 4 May. "The British have assembled an aeroplane squadron of volunteer pilots whose sole aim is to destroy the most successfu...
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MvR should be dead
August 5, 1914
"Today was a day that is still fresh in my mind, but which also moved me deeply. A field service was held for the entire garrison, the soldiers and their families on the...