You're Hitler; it's 1945, and in the Fuhrer Bunker you're surrounded by troops. How do you get out alive?

You're Hitler; it's 1945, and in the Fuhrer Bunker you're surrounded by troops. How do you get out alive?

There's actually an interesting story of a person who did just manage to get out of there alive.

This person was much of a prodigy who ended up finding admiration as far as Nehru and Kennedy.

She is, Hanna Reitsch

She was one of the last people who met the Fuhrer before he killed himself in the bunker.

Born in the then German Empire in 1912, she was the daughter of a father who was a doctor and a mother who was half Austrian nobility she was prodigy from a young age.

With a photogenic body and her achievements in woman aviation, she found herself often on Nazi propaganda posters.

She was later in partnership with Ritter von Griem who was appointed the commanding officer of the Luftwaffe in 1945 which is how she ended up on the bunker.

She escaper to Salzburg, Austria along with von Griem aboard one of the Nazi planes to fly out of Berlin which she flew.

When the Allies got hold of Austria when Germany surrendered, she was question by allied officers. She said that they must “bow down at the bunker which is an alter to the Fatherland”.

Von Griem committed suicide later that day and she settled in West Germany. She built an athletic career in gliding and won at the World Gliding Championship.

Her accolades won her acclaim from as far as the White House from the US President Kennedy.

India's first PM Nehru invited her to India to start the country's first gliding centre.

Upon learning of her work in India, she was invited by the Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah to Ghana to do the same where she lived for two years before returning to West Germany.

It is intriguing as to how a personality like her was skipped from lenses of history.