Forgotten Female Firsts: Hanna Reitsch - first woman to fly a helicopter, rocket plane, and jet plane

That's an interesting read.

Being in Hitlerbunker when it was being surrounded, and years later potentially taking cyinide that she recived on that day. That's fascinating piece of history.

And, she certainly wasn't one of the "good" Germans:

In 28 February 1944, she presented the idea of Operation Suicide to Hitler at Berchtesgaden, which "would require men who were ready to sacrifice themselves in the conviction that only by this means could their country be saved."

Reitsch and von Greim reportedly repeated the same answer: "It was the blackest day when we could not die at our Führer's side." Reitsch stated, "We should all kneel down in reverence and prayer before the altar of the Fatherland," referring to the Führerbunker.

She was lucky she got capture by Burgers, because this attitude would not fly with the Soviets.

Also, speaking of being caputred by Soviets:

Evacuated from Silesia ahead of the Soviet troops, Reitsch's family took refuge in Salzburg.[47] During the night of 3 May 1945, after hearing a rumour that all refugees were to be taken back to their original homes in the Soviet occupation zone, Reitsch's father shot and killed her mother and sister[48] and her sister's three children before killing himself.