Privileged to give the inaugural Cambridge Uni Dept of History & Philosophical Science #InternationalWomensDay talk at @whipplemuseum.bsky.social on #MelittaVonStauffenberg & #HannaReitsch, the only women to serve the Third Reich as test pilots… who ended their lives on opposite sides of history.

2) #MelittaVonStauffenberg, 1903-45, German aeronautical engineer involved in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. (See #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler)

#OTD 1944, this woman - a brilliant aeronautical engineer & test pilot - was at the heart of the 20 July bomb plot to kill Hitler, yet she is hardly known: #MelittaSchiller aka #MelittaVonStauffenberg. Her remarkable true story is told in my book #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler

A wonderful full-colour 8 page spread on #HannaReitsch & #MelittaVonStauffenberg, Nazi Germany’s only female test pilots & the subjects of my book #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler, in the current issue of #IronCross magazine.

Congratulations to @JohnMcCabe on the launch of #DietrichBonhoeffer #TheLastTenDays.
Bonhoeffer spent some of those days in the company of fellow prisoner husband of #MelittaVonStauffenberg, 1 of the only 2 female test pilots in Nazi Germany, whose story is told in my book #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler.

If you saw me on @Channel4’s #WW2 #WomenInTheFrontline tonight, here’s the book on #MelittaVonStauffenberg & #HannaReitsch: #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler

This woman was at the heart of the most famous attempt to assassinate Hitler, but has been almost forgotten. Here she is having boiled eggs & tea for breakfast with her husband. #MelittaVonStauffenberg died #otd 8 April 1944.
I tell her story in #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler…