Cinderellas: Moments of time on the brink............
- From: "rodney" <pookiethai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:43:24 +0800
SS Bremen:
A voyage by this vessel marked the first time mail was carried by a ship
launched plane for delivery before the ship's arrival. A Heinkel He12,
piloted by Jobst von Studnitz, was launched a few hours before arrival in
New York with a number of mailbags.
As Nazism gained power in Germany, Bremen, and her pier in New York, were
often the site of Anti-Nazi demonstrations. On July 26, 1935 a group of
demonstrators boarded Bremen just before she sailed and tore the Nazi party
flag from the jackstaff and tossed it into the Hudson River. On September
15, 1935 Hitler declared the Nazi Flag to be the exclusive national flag of
Germany in response to this incident, removing the status of the original
flag of the Weimar Republic as co-national flag.
http://cjoint.com/data/kzjFPHOZA7.htm
"Peace in our time"...............
This is the very aircraft, Neville Chamberlain made his "peace in our time"
speech after returning from Germany and a meeting with Hitler. 29th sept
1938
This Lockheed 14 crashed in France on 11th August 1939
with no loss of life.
http://cjoint.com/data/kzjMqbXpCl.htm
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