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Chargement... Richthofen: A True History of the Red Baronpar William E. Burrows
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There has never been a hero in German history quite like Manfred von Richthofen, the legendary Red Baron. In World War 1 he accounted for more enemy planes than any other pilot and in both World Wars he was envisaged as a hero of Wagernian stature, the embodiment of German courage and tradition. But Richthofen was a complex character. His thirst for fame, his compulsion for hunting, his apparent indifference to women, his relationship with his mother and adherence to the Prussian military tradition - all these were factors that contributed to the Red Baron's personality, that made him the greatest air ace in the history of air warfare. Behind Richthofen also lay the shadowy but persuasive propaganda machine, an official apparatus designed to inflate Germany's heroes in an attempt to keep a war-weary population from thinking about the very real threat of the communists to the Kaiser's weakening regime. The Berlin propagandists gave Richthofen the fame he sought. Yet in the end he was as useful to the Fatherland dead as he had been alive. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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It is always interesting to note the genuine respect arial enemies had for each other. Frequently their relations were starkly different from the infantry in the trenches.
"The tendancy to compensate for ones deficiencies by sinking them in to the glorious achievements of more furtunate mortals may be an ever-present feature of social life." - Sidney Hook
This book was published in 1969. Significant perhaps because of the social distain to heroes and war during the Vietnam conflict that was taking place at the time. However, there have been anti war movements constantly during the last 100 years and they do not always effect all history or literature publshed in their time periods but certainly may. In this case the back cover talkes about how the German war department looked for someone they could glorify to keep up moral with the war effort going poorly and they selected Richtofen. It is possible to overglorify war or those that do heroic things during war. It is highly possible that the Baron would not have had the legendary status he has retained for so long had he not died during the conflict and been remembered as a martyr.
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