The Independent - London, March 17th, 2008
Manfred von Richthofen was Germany's greatest First World War hero. But a biopic of the ace fighter pilot is causing unease in a country where, since the defeat of Nazism, film has avoided the glorification of war, reports Tony Paterson Fighting Germany's war taboo A British schoolboy would recognise it instantly: the plane that nowadays sits tucked away in the corner of a former Royal Air Force hangar on the western outskirts of Berlin is a life-sized replica of a fighter from the First World War. It has primitive solid rubber wheels, is painted a shocking shade of red and sports large blac...
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