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Last Days of Third Reich Lippisch Life in Exile
The Cedar Rapids Gazette chronicles aeronautical engineer Alexander Lippisch's wartime experiences and postwar life. It recalls his meetings with Goering, his work at Messerschmitt and in Vienna, and the fate of his family as Soviet forces closed in. The piece notes his escape from Vienna, destruction of papers, and a life of scientific work despite Nazi ties.
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Alexander Lippisch
Nazi Germany
Cedar Rapids
Third Reich
Air Ministry
Hermann Goering
Feld
Lippisch
Goering
Germany
Luftwaffe
Messerschmitt
Augsburg
Kesselring
North Africa
Rommel
Africa
Lipnisch
Willy Messerschmitt
Alex
Jamtitz
Russia
Austria
Philosphy
Adolf Baeumker
Mrs. Lippisch
Institute
Vienna
U.S
Academy of Aeronautics
Berlin
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Lipvisches
Furstenberg
Freiedrich Doblhoff
Doblhoff
Danube