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“Gäste-Buch der Verkehrsfliegerschule Ainring” – “Guest Book of the Air Transport Pilots’ School, Ainring.”

Hitler’s aeroplane, a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, at Ainring Airfield.

Signed in black ink by Hitler on 28 August 1936.

Signed in pencil by Hermann Göring and (below) Karl Bodenschatz – Göring’s liaison officer with Adolf Hitler. Dated 9 June 1935.

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“In 1935 the Führer instructed me to locate a suitable airfield near the Obersalzberg. After a long search, and because the Führer needed to arrive by automobile, this site near Ainring was discovered. The area, measuring roughly 800 × 800 metres,

“ Sworn Declaration I hereby declare under oath that the guestbook from the period of the Third Reich was kept by my grandparents, Mr. Arthur and Emmy Schmidt , who at that time were the tenants of the restaurant facilities at the Reich Airfield

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“Gäste-Buch der Verkehrsfliegerschule Ainring” – “Guest Book of the Air Transport Pilots’ School, Ainring.”

Hitler’s aeroplane, a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, at Ainring Airfield.

Signed in black ink by Hitler on 28 August 1936.

Signed in pencil by Hermann Göring and (below) Karl Bodenschatz – Göring’s liaison officer with Adolf Hitler. Dated 9 June 1935.

“In 1935 the Führer instructed me to locate a suitable airfield near the Obersalzberg. After a long search, and because the Führer needed to arrive by automobile, this site near Ainring was discovered. The area, measuring roughly 800 × 800 metres,

“ Sworn Declaration I hereby declare under oath that the guestbook from the period of the Third Reich was kept by my grandparents, Mr. Arthur and Emmy Schmidt , who at that time were the tenants of the restaurant facilities at the Reich Airfield