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Der Legionär Español

Der Legionär Español

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Hans Baur, Adolf Hitler's personal pilot between 1933 and 1945, was a singular figure in the history of 20th-century German aviation. Born in Ampfing in 1897, his career spanned from the first postwar airmail flights to the command of the Führer's Air Staff (Fliegerstaffel des Führers), a unit that operated forty aircraft, including thirteen four-engine Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condors. Before joining the government service, Baur had logged hundreds of Alpine crossings with Deutsche Luft Hansa and a million kilometers without accidents, a reputation that placed him within the orbit of the National Socialist Party during the 1932 election campaigns.

His role was not limited to transporting the head of state. Baur managed Joachim von Ribbentrop's travel to Moscow for the signing of the German-Soviet Pact, participated in diplomatic transfers during the campaigns in Poland, France, the Balkans, and the Eastern Front, and organized medical evacuations from the battlefronts. A direct witness to the inner circle's conversations at the Rastenburg and Vinnitsa headquarters, his privileged position allowed him to observe the progressive deterioration of the German command between Stalingrad and the final collapse of Berlin.

On April 30, 1945, Hitler personally bid him farewell in the Führerbunker. Arrested by Soviet forces during a nighttime sortie from the perimeter, Baur endured ten years of captivity before being released in 1955, an experience he chronicled in his memoirs, published in 1956.