Luftwaffe aces meet Hitler after an awards ceremony at the Berghof, 1944 [1600×1090]

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    1. Left to right:
      Oberst Werner Streib, Major Gehard Barkhorn, Erich Walther, Oberstleutnant Kurt Bühligen, Oberstleutnant Hans-Joachim Jabs, Oberstleutnant Bernhard Jope, Major Richard Seiler, Major Erich Hartmann, Major Horst Ademeit, Major Johannes Wiese, Wachtmeister Fritz Petersen, Major Maximilian Otte, Hauptmann Walter Krupinski.

      Most of these men lived on after the war, two went missing, Walther died in Soviet custody, Otte was shot down in may 1944.

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