Rabu, 18 April 2018

Reaching for the Sky

After breaking records and gender barriers in the Luftwaffe, two female pilots compete to change history—one to ensure Hitler’s success, the other his doom. Controversy stalked the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. Germany had excluded Jewish athletes from its teams, and in many countries there were calls for a boycott. The games proceeded, and …

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