{"id":297,"date":"2014-08-14T12:24:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T12:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/?p=297"},"modified":"2014-09-25T09:46:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T09:46:26","slug":"hatte-er-seine-dummheit-mit-dem-leben-bezahlen-muessen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/2014\/08\/14\/hatte-er-seine-dummheit-mit-dem-leben-bezahlen-muessen\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8221; So hatte er seine Dummheit mit dem Leben bezahlen m\u00fcssen&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cba.fro.at\/266141\/embed?&#038;title=false&#038;socialmedia=true&#038;subscribe=true&#038;series_link=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"250\" style=\"border:none; width:100%; height:250;\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>In <strong>Stimmen aus den Sch\u00fctengr\u00e4ben #7<\/strong> we deal again with <strong>aerial warfare<\/strong> (see episode<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/2014\/07\/16\/cetait-le-fameux-richthofen-un-de-laviation-allemande\/\"> #3<\/a>). The first &#8220;guest&#8221; is Manfred von Richthofen, the<strong> legendary Red Baron<\/strong>. In 1917 (a few months before his death) he published an Autobiography, from which we selected a passage describing an <strong>aerial dogfight<\/strong> between him and an English Pilot &#8211; his 32th victory. Richthofen was a very well known figure during WWI: Germans regarded him as a hero, French and English hated him with a passion. With <strong>80 confirmed victories<\/strong>, the Red Baron is the highest ranked flying ace of the whole conflict, and his deeds inspired many books, documentaries and even movies (the latest one, &#8220;Der rote Baron&#8221;, was released in 2008). His nickname comes from the <strong>colour of his planes<\/strong>, painted in a bright-red colour. The title of the Autobiography &#8211; &#8220;<strong>Der rote Kampfflieger<\/strong>&#8221; &#8211; has the same origin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-301\" style=\"width: 367px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/08\/Manfred_von_Richthofen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-301\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/08\/Manfred_von_Richthofen.jpg\" alt=\"Manfred_von_Richthofen\" width=\"367\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/08\/Manfred_von_Richthofen.jpg 499w, https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/08\/Manfred_von_Richthofen-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manfred von Richthofen (Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Manfred von Richthofen is a <strong>controversial figure<\/strong>: regarded by many (non only in the German speaking countries) as an extraordinary man, celebrated in movies and literature. But also a young soldier who <strong>deeply enjoyed war<\/strong> and showed neither mercy nor compassion for the fallen enemies. His Autobiography is available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/DerRoteKampfflieger\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/DerRoteKampfflieger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second &#8220;guest&#8221; of the episode is <strong>sergeant Leonard J. Ounsworth<\/strong> (see episodes <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/2014\/06\/30\/1914-1918-kriegsberichte-aus-erster-hand\/\">#1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/2014\/07\/16\/cetait-le-fameux-richthofen-un-de-laviation-allemande\/\">#3<\/a>).\u00a0 In an original interview he relates of a very <strong>peculiar episode<\/strong> he witnessed while serving in France. He remembers that once a french plane was diving on the corner of a corn field for no apparent reason. Then, all of a sudden, a detachement of <strong>Indian cavalry<\/strong> (according to Ounsworth, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/9th_Royal_Deccan_Horse\">9th Royal Deccan Horse<\/a>) surrounded <strong>German machineguns<\/strong> and captured at least <strong>34 prisoners<\/strong> and their weapons. The french plane was unarmed and only served as a distraction to cover the movements of the cavalry until the very last moment. The full interview is available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ww1lit\/gwa\/document\/9404?REC=1\">http:\/\/www.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/ww1lit\/gwa\/document\/9404?REC=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last account is by French soldier <strong>Maurice Leclerc<\/strong> (see episode <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/2014\/07\/29\/204\/\">#5<\/a>), who wrote about the tragic epilogue of a dogfight in a letter dated 22\/09\/1916. Leclecrc witnessed the <strong>crash of a french plane<\/strong> and the death of the crew. The observer jumped from the plane but the<strong> parachute<\/strong> (see episode <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/2014\/07\/16\/cetait-le-fameux-richthofen-un-de-laviation-allemande\/\">#3<\/a>) <strong>didn&#8217;t work<\/strong>. The pilot tried to land the burning plane, but the impact with the ground caused the <strong>gas tank to explode<\/strong>. The letter can be downloaded at: <a href=\"http:\/\/europeana1914-1918.eu\/de\/contributions\/9841\">http:\/\/europeana1914-1918.eu\/de\/contributions\/9841<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_299\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-299\" style=\"width: 438px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/08\/leclerc-letter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-299 \" src=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/08\/leclerc-letter.png\" alt=\"leclerc letter\" width=\"438\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/08\/leclerc-letter.png 562w, https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/files\/2014\/08\/leclerc-letter-234x300.png 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maurice Leclerc&#8217;s letter (Europeana)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>-Credits-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editing: Laura Leitner, Matteo Coletta<\/p>\n<p>Voices in this episode: David Leberbauer as Manfred von Richthofen, L.J. Ounsworth as himself, Matteo Coletta as Maurice Leclerc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jingle:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Music: Gregoire Lourme, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamendo.com\/de\/track\/1063185\/fire-arrows-and-shields\">Fire arrows and shields<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nConcept: Matteo Coletta<br \/>\nVoices: Hannes Hochwasser, Matteo Coletta, Roman Reischl, L.J. Ounsworth, Norbert K. Hund.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Stimmen aus den Sch\u00fctengr\u00e4ben #7 we deal again with aerial warfare (see episode #3). The first &#8220;guest&#8221; is Manfred von Richthofen, the legendary Red Baron. In 1917 (a few months before his death) he published an Autobiography, from which we selected a passage describing an aerial dogfight between him and an English Pilot &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/2014\/08\/14\/hatte-er-seine-dummheit-mit-dem-leben-bezahlen-muessen\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8221; So hatte er seine Dummheit mit dem Leben bezahlen m\u00fcssen&#8221;<\/span> weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4UhV1-4N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.radiofabrik.at\/stimmen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}