Meet The Red Baron
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Mein Kriegestagebuch 1937

Die Erinnerungen der Mutter des roten Kampffliegers Kunigunde Freifrau von Richthofen. Im Verlag Ullstein - Berlin, 1937.

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Mein Kriegestagebuch 1937

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September 17, 1917

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March 12, 1918

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‘The army report then reported laconically that Manfred had won his sixty-fourth air war, Lothar his twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth.’

April 20, 1918

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November 23, 1916

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March 8, 1917

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March 19, 1917

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April 6, 1917

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June 18, 1916

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June 19, 1916

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May 4, 1917

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April 23, 1918

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August 23, 1917

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Das schönste Wesen, das je die Welt geschaffen hat, ist die echte Ulmer Dogge, mein 'kleines Schoßhündchen', der Moritz. Richthofen und sein Kamerad Zeumer kauften für 5 RM zwei Welpen und nannten sie 'Max und Moritz' - so wie die beiden 'bösen Buben' aus Wilhelm Buschs Lausbuben- Geschichte. Max fiel einem Verkehrsunfall zum Opfer. Moritz bezahlte seinen Übermut mit 'einem Ohr'. Gerhard Böhme (Bruder des Pour le Mérite-Fliegers Erwin Böhme) versorgte die Verletzung, deren Ursache eine 'unliebsame Begegnung' mit einem Propeller gewesen war.

Das schönste Wesen, das je die Welt geschaffen hat, ist die echte Ulmer Dogge, mein 'kleines Schoßhündchen', der Moritz. Richthofen und sein Kamerad Zeumer kauften für 5 RM zwei Welpen und nannten sie 'Max und Moritz' - so wie die beiden 'bösen Buben' aus Wilhelm Buschs Lausbuben- Geschichte. Max fiel einem Verkehrsunfall zum Opfer. Moritz bezahlte seinen Übermut mit 'einem Ohr'. Gerhard Böhme (Bruder des Pour le Mérite-Fliegers Erwin Böhme) versorgte die Verletzung, deren Ursache eine 'unliebsame Begegnung' mit einem Propeller gewesen war.

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