Der rote Kampfflieger von Rittmeister Manfred Freiherrn von Richthofen, 1917, 351.000 - 400.000, Verlag Ullstein & Co, Berlin-Wien
‘Flight home Fifty are shot down. I thought fifty-two was better. That's why I shot down two more on the same day. It actually went against the agreement. I had...
‘The next day I was invited to lunch with Her Majesty and travelled to Homburg for this purpose. There I had breakfast with Her Majesty, was also presented with...
‘A few days later, I arrived in my home town of Schweidnitz. Although it was seven o'clock in the morning, a whole crowd had gathered at the railway station. Th...
Mein Bruder
Der Auerochs
Infanterie-, Artillerie- und Aufklärungsflieger
Unsere Flugzeuge
Transkription des kaiserlichen Glückwunschtelegramms
Ein Fliegerstückchen
Erste Dublette
Mein bisher erfolgreichster Tag
‘The most beautiful creature the world has ever created is the real Great Dane from Ulm, my ‘little lap dog’, ‘Moritz’. I bought him in Ostend from a good Belgi...
Englischer Bombenangriff auf unseren Flughafen
Schäfers Notlandung zwischen den Linien
"For some reason, one fine day I had the idea of painting my bird bright red. The result was that my red bird was an absolute eye-catcher. Even my opponents see...
The 30-day course was completed by a subsequent 14-day course in Großenhain near Dresden, where the focus was on practice.
On June 10, 1915, I arrived in Großenhain to be sent to the front from there. Of course, I wanted to get out as quickly as possible because I was afraid I might...
‘We marched and marched, the patrols far ahead, until one fine day we were at Arlon. I had a funny feeling as I crossed the border for the second time. I had al...
Aus meiner Döberitzer Ausbildungszeit
Außenlandungen
‘About a year later at the regiment, my Rittmeister v. Tr., who was very fond of sport, told me that he had bought a very chunky jumper. We were all very excite...
Boelckes Tot
Bölcke fragt MvR
Brieftauben-Abteilung Ostende.
Das Anti-Richthofen-Geschwader
Das erstemal auf einem Fokker
Das erstemal in der Luft!
Der Achte
Der erste Alleinflug
Der Sechzehnte ist gefallen.
Ein Gewitterflug
Ein Tropfen Blut fürs Vaterland
Englische und französische Fliegerei
Heeresbericht vom 26. April 1916
As a young pilot, I once flew over Fort Douaumont on a fighter flight, which was under heavy barrage. I saw a German Fokker attacking three Caudrons. Unfortunat...
In der Champagne-Schlacht
In der Champagne-Schlacht
Kriegsausbruch
Langeweile vor Verdun
Major Hawker I was proudest of all when I heard one fine day that the Englishman I had shot down on 23 November 1916 was the British Immelmann. Judging by the a...
Mein erster Luftkampf
Mit Holck in Rußland
Mit Holck in Rußland
‘Then one day a telegram arrived: ’Lieutenant v. R. appointed leader of Jagdstaffel 11." I have to say, I was annoyed. I had worked so well with my comrades in...
‘Now about my youth. The old man was in Breslau with the Leibkürasseren 1 when I was born on 2 May 1892. We lived in Kleinburg.’
MvR joins military cadets
MvR joins military cadets
I had private lessons until I was nine years old.
Patrouillenritt mit Loen
Selbst abgeschossen
‘We unloaded in Busendorf. It was so hot that our horses threatened to fall over. For the next few days, we marched north towards Luxembourg. In the meantime, I...
‘To France. We were now loaded in my garrison town. Where to? - No idea whether west, east, south or north. There were a lot of rumours, but most of them were o...
Überschreiten der Grenze
und so trat ich Ende Mai 1915 zur Fliegertruppe.
We all stood on the firing range, and one by one we fired our machine guns in the way that seemed most favourable to us. The day before we had received our new...
Wie ich auf Patrouille zum erstenmal die Kugeln pfeifen hörte
Wie ich Boelcke kennenlernte
Zugfahrt im Westen
In all my life I have never known a more beautiful hunting ground than in the days of the Battle of the Somme. When you got up in the morning, the first English...
The next day I flew to Freiburg to shoot a capercaillie there. From Freiburg I took a plane that flew to Berlin. I filled up with petrol in Nuremberg. A thunder...
‘Lothar is a ’shooter" and not a huntsman My father makes a distinction between a hunter (huntsman) and a shooter who just enjoys shooting. When I have shot dow...
Erste Offizierszeit
Beobachtungsflieger bei Mackensen
8. Kampfstaffel des 2. Kampfgeschwaders
Bombenflüge in Rußland
Der »alte Herr« kommt uns besuchen
After two days - we were sitting comfortably at the Boelcke fighter squadron and celebrating my farewell - a telegram arrived from headquarters to say that Your...
