Manfred von Richthofen

Manfred Von Richthofen, son of a Prussian nobleman, Albrecht Phillip Karl Julius, went from serving in the German army to serving in the Imperial Air Service in 1915. By 1916, he was well known and feared greatly in the skies over the western front. He flew an Albatross biplane. With it, he created a title for himself, bringing down 15 enemy planes by the time the year was up, including British flying ace Major Laonoe Hawker's plane. During the year of 1917, Richthofen became well known not only for his feared statistics, but also for his flying skills. He beat all flying ace records on both sides of the Western front. Richthofen began using a Fokker triplane, which he painted entirely red in tribute to his old cavalry regiment. Although Richthofen only got to use…

chased by three others (“William ‘Billy’ Bishop”). Only five weeks after beginning to fly in France, he had 17 victories and was the highest scoring ace for the British forces (Leach 50). In June of 1917, Bishop demonstrated his bravery by carrying out a dangerous raid on a German aerodrome and destroying three enemy planes. This attack on the airport won him the Victoria Cross. Bishop became the first soldier to win all of the military’s highest honors (“William ‘Billy’ Bishop”). General Hugh…

they were in the military and military families mostly have to keep moving. Before all the negative events happened Red Baron and his brother all went out into to the woods to hunt, boar, elk, birds, and deer, which were collected and displayed as trophies in the castle that his Prussian noble family owned. Also, the reason Red Baron and his brother hunted was because that was part of the privileges of their class. They got to go hunt because Red Baron’s father was an Uhlan career officer. His…

The Analysis of the Three Poems “My Papa’s Waltz”, “My Father’s Hats” and “Those Winter Sundays” are poems which are real exciting and express the love of fathers towards their kids. In these poems they describe to us the friendship between children and their fathers. The poem “My Papa’s Waltz” explains how a young boy was dancing waltz music with his drunken father. The young son appeared to enjoy having fun with his father while dancing despite the fact that he kept on chafing his ear on his…

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are two novels in which the themes of equality and inequality are explored extensively. The texts are both written by women in 1847 and 1818 respectively and both deal with gender inequality. Jane Eyre is also a social commentary on the injustices and inequalities of the classist Victorian hierarchy whereas Shelley’s novel focuses on the human rejection of unconventionality and the inequalities faced by societies ‘outcasts. The…

A mystery that has lasted almost a century, who killed Manfred Von Richthofen, also known as the dangerous WW1 threat, The Red Baron? With information being pulled up from every angle and the conclusion has finally been drawn. Countless pieces of evidence have been narrowed down to three vital points. The rounds, the range of the shot taken to kill the Red Baron, and the Angle from which he was shot at, all prove that Sergeant Cedric Popkin shot down the German legend. To begin, The rounds…

Particularly the death of Manfred von Richthofen, Also known as “The Red Baron”. The death of the famous World War 1 pilot has sparked controversy from the days after his death to even present day. It is not known for sure who shot down Richthofen. The man credited with the kill was Roy Brown of the 209th squadron. Who chased the Baron in a dogfight which ended in the death of the Baron Based on where the Baron was shot and the angle, The time frame from the shot to his death, and that the…

fragile Weimar republic.”(Treaty) These were the foundations of Adolf Hitler’s rise to totalitarian power. The Reichstag was the Parliament of Germany from 1871 to 1918, which was the imperial council of the German state. In 1924, Nazi party took 3% of the Reichstag vote. However there was over 50 parties in the Reichstag, therefore not one single party could take the leading vote. By 1930’s“The traditional right and center of German politics collapsed, and millions flooded to support National…

by certain events like the Great Depression Hitler and the Nazi Party would of most likely have remained in the margins of Weimar politics. Between 1924 and 1932 Hitler and his agents worked hard to reform the Nazi Party to become a legitimate contender for Reichstag seats. They turned down their anti-Semitic and anti-Republican ideals and recruited new members to increase their party membership and changed into a national party. Hitler chased after groups such as the industrialists, wealthy…

Since the end of World War II, many have questioned what exactly led to the rise of Hitler and Nazi power. Some give Hitler a lot of credit by claiming it was him and his charismatic speeches that led the way, while others claim that racism and propaganda fueled inherent racism already in Germany. It is most likely that the NSDAP (the Nazi Party) and Hitler rose to power due to external social conditions setting the stage for Nazi ideology to gain support. Germany’s participation in World War I…