Beschreibung
Albumblätter zusammen mit seiner Frau und Copilotin Anne Morrow Lindbergh sind sehr selten. – Die Lindberghs hatten 1936 die Olympiade in Berlin besucht. „On 11 October 1937, Lindbergh and his wife Anne flew on their second trip to Germany. It was an unofficial visit and Lindbergh met with no Third Reich officials, but he did visit airfields and factories in Bremen and Pomerania and once again was impressed with Luftwaffe technology and capabilities. A few months later, Lindbergh was invited to examine the air forces of Czechoslovakia and Russia, but was unimpressed in comparison to what he had seen in Germany. ‚Germany now has the means of destroying London, Paris and Prague if she wishes to do so‘, Lindbergh said. ‚I am convinced that it is wiser to permit Germany’s eastward expansion than to throw England and France, unprepared, into a war at this time‘. Although Lindbergh believed the German Luftwaffe was unstoppable in Europe, it is not clear to what degree he ever became a Nazi sympathizer per se. ‚I was far from being in accord with the philosophy, policy, and actions of the Nazi government‘, he later wrote. Clearly, to him the Soviet Union and communism posed a much greater threat to Europe and ‚Western Civilization‘ as he called it, and a strong Nazi Germany could protect Western Europe from the Russians.“ (Jim Bredemus, „The ‚Lonely Eagle‘: Charles Lindbergh’s Involvement in WWII Politics“).
