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Axis War Heroes: Heinrich ‘Pritzi’ Bar – AWH 010120


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Messerschmitt, Sven Longshanks and Dennis Wise discuss Schmitt’s final Axis War Heroes presentation, on German flying ace Heinrich ‘Pritzi’ Bar.

Heinz started life as a farmer and Schmitt gives us some anecdotes about his younger years playing pranks on farmers and pinching turnips, before describing his glider training and eventual enlistment in the Luftwaffe.

Several dog fights and lucky escapes are described along with quotes to show his quick witted sense of humour. There seemed to be a gentleman’s code of honour among the pilots during the war, they would often help to rescue one another once the other had been defeated and Schmitt recounts one tale where Heinz shares a cognac with the British pilot whose life he had just saved.

After parachuting behind enemy lines in Ukraine and making his way bare foot for forty miles and surviving on raw potatoes, Heinz eventually made it back safely with his sense of humour intact and was later rewarded with the Swords for this and other exploits.

Schmitt and Sven discuss the importance of following your gut instincts, after learning that this was the advice Pritzi gave to the pilots who wished to learn how to shoot down over 200 enemy aircraft for themselves and after that, Schmitt describes another major operation during the war where Pritzi and his team wiped out an entire airfield filled with deadly American and British planes. Goering had wanted to wait until the bombers were in the air before attacking them, but Hitler preferred to take them all out while they were sitting ducks. This took place at the height of the terror bombing of the German cities and Sven explains how Churchill goaded Hitler into attacking London and Coventry so that he had an excuse to continue doing this to Germany.

Goering put a stop to Prtitzi being awarded the Diamonds to the Knight's Cross because he thought he was insubordinate. This probably stemmed from Heinz seeing Goering as an equal, rather than a superior. Although the Reich Marshall had been a top pilot during the first brother’s war, aviation technology had moved on in leaps and bounds since that time and his ideas about flying may not have been as practical as Pritzi and Galland’s.

He survived the war to become number eight in the list of most successful fighter pilots of all time. His luck did not continue in civilian aircraft however and he would eventually die while test piloting a sports plane.

Presented by Messerschmitt, Sven Longshanks and Dennis Wise


Axis War Heroes: Heinrich ‘Pritzi’ Bar – AWH 010120




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