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T-Bone ([personal profile] t_bone) wrote2023-04-21 10:51 pm

21 квітня 105 років назад...

...загинула людина, яка не любила вчитись:

"I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible"

...яка не визнавала моральних виправдовувань щодо військового обов'язку:

"The murder of a man is still murder, even in wartime"

...і яка шкодувала, що не била русню:

"It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian."


Він був великим. Якщо хтось чекав на знак, щоб нарешті почитати Der Rote Kampfflieger, то ось він
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[personal profile] scif_yar 2023-04-22 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
The RAF credited Brown with shooting down the Red Baron, but it is now generally agreed by historians, doctors, and ballistics experts that Richthofen was actually killed by an anti-aircraft (AA) machine gunner firing from the ground

Был.