Hanna Reitsch



"Hanna Reitsch? Well, this girl is famous for having a derp face. Sounds like it's a weird, weird thing in here. Darn straight for her, but my friend knows how to do derp faces... which are funny."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Freedom Has a Cost

Hanna Reitsch was Germany's most famous female aviator and test pilot, starting in the early 1930s. During the Nazi era, she and Melitta von Stauffenberg flight tested many of the regime's new aircraft.

A fervent follower of the Nazi Party, she helped fly Robert Ritter von Greim to the Chancellery in the last days of Hitler.

She set more than 40 flight altitude records and women's endurance records in gliding before and after World War II. In the 1960s, she was sponsored by the West German foreign office as a technical advisor in Ghana and elsewhere and founded a gliding school in Ghana, where she worked for Kwame Nkrumah.

In When the Cold Breeze Blows Away, she is the replacement of Hermann Göring due that his appearance gave way to Nazi-like offensive content, as the Unionsminister of Aviation.