re: History in Pictures is a great twitter feed. Here is one just posted.

So, I guess nobody knows.

The flag was called the Blutfahne (blood flag). It was from the Beer Hall Putsch and there was blood stains on it from one (or more) of the men that was shot by the police when the putsch was put down. It was sacred to the Nazis and was used to "purify" other flags by touching one to the other. Many times you will see a photo of Hitler at a podium with a soldier standing behind him holding a Nazi flag. The soldier is Grimminger and the flag is the Blutfahne.

Damn, hate I was not around for that question.

Let's stay along these lines....



1. Who is this and where was she from?

2. What did she do that no other women in history ever accomplished.

3. Where was the most odd place she ever landed a plane and why did she land where she did?

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Its not Amelia Earhardt for sure


Is it Anne Lindbergh?

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No and no.

No other guesses? OK....

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1. Who is this and where was she from?

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Her name was Hanna Reitsch. She was a German test pilot and ardent Nazi.

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2. What did she do that no other women in history ever accomplished.

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She is the only female to ever be awarded the Iron Cross.

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3. Where was the most odd place she ever landed a plane and why did she land where she did?

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Basically she landed a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch single engine observer plane like this...

...in the middle of Berlin right outside Hitler's Bunker during the Battle of Berlin! Here's the full story...

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During the last days of the war, after Hitler dismissed Hermann Göring as head of the Luftwaffe for what he saw as an act of treason – sending the Göring Telegramme and allegedly attempting a coup d'état – he appointed Generaloberst Robert Ritter von Greim as head of the Luftwaffe. Von Greim asked Reitsch to fly him into embattled Berlin to meet Hitler. Red Army troops were already in the central area when Reitsch and von Greim arrived on 26 April in a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch. With her long experience at low-altitude flying over Berlin and having already surveyed the road as an escape route with Hitler's personal pilot Hans Baur, Reitsch landed on an improvised airstrip in the Tiergarten near the Brandenburg Gate; von Greim was wounded in the leg when Soviet soldiers fired at the light aircraft during its approach. They made their way to the Führerbunker, where Hitler promoted von Greim to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall and to Hermann Göring's former command of the barely functioning Luftwaffe. During the intense Russian bombardment, Hitler gave Reitsch a cyanide capsule for herself and another for von Greim. She accepted the capsule, fully prepared to die alongside her Führer.[5]

During the evening of 28 April, von Greim and Reitsch flew out of Berlin from the same improvised airstrip in an Arado Ar 96 trainer. Von Greim was ordered to get the Luftwaffe to attack the Soviet forces that had just reached Potsdamer Platz and to make sure Heinrich Himmler was punished for his treachery in making unauthorised contact with the Western Allies.[6] Fearing that Hitler was escaping in the plane, troops of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army, which was fighting its way through the Tiergarten from the north, tried to shoot the Arado down but failed, and the plane took off successfully

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Damn, Darth - I didn't get any of that right except the first part?

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Damn, Darth - I didn't get any of that right except the first part?

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Hey, at least you learned something.

He owned the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for a while and later took an inflatable boat tour of the south Pacific - or were you looking for something else?

Sir Edmund Hillary

Climbed Mt. Everest.

Total shot in the dark.

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Who is the guy leaning over the edge of the trench? He was the first person to do what?

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Is that Ataturk, the first President of Turkey?