Word: lufthansa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ring met Milch in the early days of the Nazi Party. Göring had flown in the late Baron von Richthofen's famed World War I "circus." Milch was a former artillery officer who had become managing director of Deutsche Lufthansa, the big State-subsidized air combine. Short and chubby, bursting with energy and ability, Milch as a personality might have been taken for an able and energetic U. S. businessman. He tackled a terrific problem. Germany was a poverty-stricken nation. She was then forbidden a military air force. When the Nazis got in power...
Britain's plans stirred up rumors that Germany wants an uncensored airmail route between the Reich and the U. S. (In the summers of 1937 and 1938 Deutsche Lufthansa had made weekly experimental flights to New York.) From abroad also came reports of Nazi pressure on the Petain Government to carry out the plans of Air France Transatlantique which got CAA permission in May for experimental non-commercial flights to LaGuardia Field. Application by either Government for U. S. landing rights might well bring the first test of whether the U. S. is going to do business with Hitler...