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German Air Attache: Life of Peter Riedel - Pilot and Diplomat in World War II
 
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German Air Attache: Life of Peter Riedel - Pilot and Diplomat in World War II (Hardcover)

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Riedel was one of the world's greatest glider pilots in the years before World War II, encouraged by Hitler's Reich to take on the best in the USA. This led him into the position of the Nazis' Air Attache to the USA, until America joined the war and he returned to Germany for other adventures.

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This book is of interest to serious historians of World War 2, as well as to those who know of Peter Riedel as a champion pilot of sporting sailplanes in the nineteen thirties. It explains how the German government in Berlin obtained accurate information about the growth of the USA aircraft industry over the period 1937 until the declaration of war by Germany on the USA, after the attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941. Peter Riedel, whose story is told here, did not consider himself a Nazi but believed he had a patriotic duty to serve Germany. He was invited to take the post of adviser to the German Military Attache in Washington DC, accepted, and in his official position during the critical period 1938 - 41, legally collected highly accurate data from openly published sources, and passed it to Berlin. (The famous pilot Lindbergh is sometimes blamed for the accuracy of the information reaching the German Air Ministry at this time.)

The book is based on Riedel's own notes and many tape recorded interviews with the author.

Along with other German Embassy staff, Riedel was forced to return to Germany in 1942, with his American-born wife Helen. He came under suspicion there because of his conviction that Germany would be defeated. He was eventually sent to Sweden as Technical Air Attache there, deserted the German cause and at the end of the war became stateless, with many subsequent unhappy experiences, including some time in a Swedish prison. He escaped secretly by boat to Morocco where he was again arrested by the French and jailed for a year. Escaping again he crossed the Atlantic as a crew member on a small British yacht and managed to gain entry to Venezuela.

Riedel eventually became an American citizen and died in November 1998, in Ardmore, Oklahoma, at the age of 93.

Royalties are shared 50 - 50 with the author and Helen Riedel.

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