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volksjager (volksjager) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-08 15:03:00

Current music:

808 state :"Pime function"

Achtung LuftPanzer !!
World war two 1946

The Germans and Japanese invade Panama...

yes, it is a slow day at the studio today.:P

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	psychop_rex 2009-10-09 11:53 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, OK. No, I didn't think she was fiction, I just thought it was another example of how the universe occasionally gives people names that are completely appropriate to who they are and what they do. I'd never heard of her before. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-10-10 12:09 am UTC (link)
	There is a film called "crossbow" where she is a character you get to see her test pilot the V3. She flew to Berlin the day before the war ended (in reality) and said her personal goodbye ti Hitler,she had this really weird crush on him. She wrote her biography "the sky is my kingdom". (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychop_rex
2009-10-10 12:31 am UTC (link)

Yeah, I looked her up on Wikipedia - an interesting life she led, indeed. It's really kind of amazing how many incredibly talented people were in Germany back then - her, Lenne Reifenstahl, Lotte Reinacher, Fritz Lang, etc., etc. One of the minor tragedies of WW2 is that all these peoples' careers were so thoroughly disrupted - imagine all the amazing art and culture and so forth that could have come out of Germany if Hitler hadn't decided to go into politics. It's really a terrible shame.

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	volksjager 2009-10-10 12:50 am UTC (link)
	Germany's loss was America's gain. Artists went to New York,film makers to Hollywood. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-10-10 12:54 am UTC (link)
	True enough, and a number of them went on to great things, but imagine if they'd all stayed in one place! THAT would have been something. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-10-10 01:15 am UTC (link)
	I recall an alternate history story where the Hapsburg empire stayed together to Einstein, Heisenberg,and someone else became classmates at the same university. they got into all sorts of trouble figuring out time travel,high-end physics,space travel and other things. Wish I could recall the name o author... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-10-10 02:00 am UTC (link)
	Ah, yes, you've mentioned this before. If you DO recall it, tell me, please - it sounds like an interesting concept. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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