Name: Flights from Fassberg: How a German Town Built for War Became a Beacon of Peace (en Inglés)
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Author: Samuel, Wolfgang W. E.
ISBN: 9781496833648

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Flights from Fassberg: How a German Town Built for War Became a Beacon of Peace (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Wolfgang W. E. Samuel

Editorial

University Press of Mississippi

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

248

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.6 x 16.0 x 2.5 cm

Peso

0.54 kg.

ISBN13

9781496833648

Categorías

Alemania
C. 1939-c. 1945 (época de la segunda guerra mundial)
Memorias
Historia de europa
Segunda guerra mundial

Flights from Fassberg: How a German Town Built for War Became a Beacon of Peace (en Inglés)

Wolfgang W. E. Samuel (Autor) · University Press of Mississippi · Tapa Dura

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Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, Colonel, US Air Force (Ret.), interweaves his story and that of his family with the larger history of World War II and the postwar world through a moving recollection and exploration of Fassberg, a small town in Germany few have heard of and fewer remember. Created in 1933 by the Hitler regime to train German aircrews, Fassberg hosted Samuel's father in 1944-45 as an officer in the German air force. As fate and Germany's collapse chased young Wolfgang, Fassberg later became his home as a postwar refugee, frightened, traumatized, hungry, and cold. Built for war, Fassberg made its next mark as a harbinger of the new Cold War, serving as one of the operating bases for Allied aircraft during the Berlin Airlift in 1948. With the end of the Berlin Crisis, the airbase and town faced a dire future. When the Royal Air Force declared the airbase surplus to its needs, it also signed the place's death warrant, yet increasing Cold War tensions salvaged both base and town. Fassberg transformed again, this time into a forward operating base for NATO aircraft, including a fighter flown by Samuel's son. Both personal revelation and world history, replete with tales from pilots, mechanics, and all those whose lives intersected there, Flights from Fassberg provides context to the Berlin Airlift and its strategic impact, the development of NATO, and the establishment of the West German nation. The little town built for war survived to serve as a refuge for a lasting peace.