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After World War I, the German government encouraged
the sport of gliding as a way to train pilots and participate in
aviation, since the German aircraft industry was severely lim-
ited by the reaty of Versailles. After their assumption of pow-
er in 1933, the Nazis enthusiastically continued this supportas a way to make Germans air-minded and rebuild Germa-
ny into an air power. It was also source of national pride, given
that Germany had become a world leader in the sport of glid-
ing and soaring, and German pilots held many world records.
One of the most renowned of these record-setting pilots
was Peter Riedel. Born in 1905, Riedel studied engineer-
ing and became a commercial pilot, worked at the Meteo-
rological Institute of Rhn-Rositten Company, and toured
South America with the institutes head, Dr. Walter Geor-
gii, to promote the sport of gliding.
After working as a pilot for Lufthansa, and briefly under-
going reserve training in the German military, Riedel took ajob with the Colombian airline SPACDA. He claimed to
find life in the Tird Reich to be too confining and sought
broader horizons. In any case, he had become romantical-
ly involved with a married Argentinian woman and crossed
the Atlantic to be closer to her. In 1937, Riedel, sponsored
by the German Aero Club, competed at the Soaring Soci-
ety of America national competition. Flying a DFS Sperber
Nazis
Over Washington?
In the years shortly before Americas involvement in World War II, a graceful, cream-
colored glider could often be seen soaring above Washington, D.C., and vicinity.
Since gliding was a popular sport in the 1930s, a glider was not an unfamiliar
sight, except that this one flaunted a red tail band with a Nazi swastika in the center.
Tis is the story behind that glider and its pilot.
By Chas Downs
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Peter Riedel stands next to his Kranich
(Crane) glider with its Nazi swastika
insignia, ca. 1938. The German text on
the tail gives the gliders maker and
place of manufacture and notes that
it was the property of the German
embassy in Washington, DC.
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glider, with German registration and swas-
tika national markings, he won the Bendix
gold trophy for the longest distance flight,
133 miles from Elmira, New York, to Eliza-
beth, Pennsylvania.
While at Elmira, Riedel met the Ger-
man military attach in Washington, D.C.,
Col. Friedrich von Boetticher, who was im-
pressed enough with Riedel to offer him a
job as technical assistant for aviation matters
at the German embassy in Washington. At
first Riedel refused, but he subsequently ac-
cepted the position in order to stay in Amer-
ica. After a replacement for his airline job ar-
rived, he then traveled back to Germany to
be vetted by the Air Ministry.
In Berlin, he was interviewed by the
Abwehr, the Germany military intelligence
agency headed by Adm. Wilhelm Canaris.
Te Abwehr played by its own rules and was
distrusted by other German military and in-
telligence organizations. While later in life
Riedel denied being a Nazi or ever having
been a NSDAP member, records show that
he had joined the Nazi Party twice, in 1931
and 1933, letting his membership lapse
both times. According to State Department
sources, Riedel was by all appearances a con-
firmed Nazi while in the United States, but
his affiliations seem to have been more of
convenience than conviction. He was prob-
ably too much of a free spirit to be a good
party man.
The Swastika over Washington:Crossing the Mall before LandingBefore starting his duties at the German em-
bassy in Washington, Riedel stopped by El-
mira to participate in the 1938 American
national soaring competition under the aus-
pices of the German Aero Club. His two-
seat DSF Kranich glider again carried full
German national markings, including a red
band with a swastika on its rudder. Riedels
ground crewman also briefly displayed a
Nazi flag, which drew unfavorable attention
to his gliders Nazi markings.
Reflecting a changed political climate
since 1937, the swastika insignia caused Riedel
considerable embarrassment in 1938. Regis-
tered in Germany in order to avoid U.S. im-
port duties, his glider displayed the Nazi mark-
ings that were required on all German military
and civil aircraft. Once it became known he
was working for the German embassy, howev-
er, this explanation did not convince many of
Riedels acquaintances, who began to assume
he was a confirmed Nazi.
Te 1938 soaring competition had few-
er but more experienced pilots than in 1937.
Riedel took an early lead with successful flights
to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington,
Delaware. He was determined to do something
spectacular to publicize the sport of soaring
fly from Elmira to Washington, D.C. Such a
feat would also win a thousand-dollar prize.
On the morning of July 3, after determining
that conditions would be favorable, Riedel was
launched in his Kranich at 10:30 a.m. He soon
found a strong thermal and reached an altitude
of 6,000 feet, high enough to clear the 3,000-
foot ridges he was crossing, but he often need-
ed to fly on instruments through cloud for-
mations. By 5 p.m., Riedel had reached Balti-
more, but the strong thermals that gotten him
that far were failing. Despite his knowledge
and skill, he was losing altitude too quickly.
Pulled toward the ground by the cooling
air, he spotted the familiar environs of Wash-
ington D.C. He passed over College Park Air-
Riedels German glider pilots license. Riedel had
been an airline pilot for Lufthansa and a German-sup-
ported Colombian company, SCATA. He had briefly
trained for the German military, but his Nazi Party af-
filiations seemed to have been pro forma.
Riedels two-seat Kranich being towed aloft. Note
the gliders wheels falling to the ground in the low-
er right of the photograph. They were jettisoned af-
ter takeoff, and a fuselage skid was used when it was
time for the glider to land.
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ers. He predicted that by 1942 American
built aircraft could be supplied to the Allies in
such quantity that they would dominate the
war in the air. Riedels superiors at the embas
sy did not fully support his reporting and es-
timates even though they were reasonably ac
curate. Since they contradicted the Nazis un
realistic but unquestioned views of America
Riedels projections were ignored or dismissed
by the German leaders in Berlin.
Riedel Flies for Fun,Takes Friends on RidesBut Riedel still lived to fly.
Te German embassy kept a two-sea
Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fr Segelflug
(D.F.S.) G-27 Kranich glider at College Park
Airport, in suburban Maryland, for his use
In an era when aeronautical feats were an al-
most daily news staple, Riedel and his glider
received their share of attention.
A September 26, 1938, article in the Wash
ington Postdescribed how Riedel had taken
off from College Park Airport to watch the
Presidents Cup regatta. After staying alof
for three hours, he was forced to land at
nearby Hoover Airport because of cool air
port, hoping that the sun-warmed streets of
Washington would give him just enough lift
to make it to Hoover Airport (now Ronald
Reagan Washington National Airport), just on
the other side of the Potomac River in Virgin-
ia. He crossed the Mall and skimmed 200 feet
above the Washington Monument.
Just when he no longer needed it, he found
another thermal, circling to gain altitude in or-
der to do some acrobatic turns and loops be-
fore landing at Hoover Airport at 6:20 p.m. In
this remarkable flight, Riedel set a national and
international distance record of 227 miles for a
flight to a predeclared target.
After returning to Elmira, Riedel made an-
other long-distance flight, 196 miles to Roos-
evelt Field on Long Island, New York. As he
had been in 1937, Riedel was the highest scor-
ing pilot in the 1938 Elmira competition and
would have been U.S. national champion but
for the fact that he was not an American citizen.
Nazi Leaders Reject WarningsAbout U.S. Aviation IndustryAt the height of his gliding career, Rie-
dels fame, training, connections, and back-
ground were all helpful to him in carrying
out his new duties at the German embassy,
which were to collect, organize, and evaluate
information on American military aviation.
Youthful and convivial, Riedel did not
get along well with his new boss, whom he
found stiff, humorless, and pompous. On
his part, von Boetticher, who was vehement-
ly opposed to German diplomatic personnel
engaging in espionage activities in the Unit-
ed States, may have suspected that Riedel
had a relationship with the Abwehr.
Riedel himself claims to have used no un-
dercover agents but extrapolated quite accu-
rate statistics on American aviation indus-
try production and expansion from pub-
lished sources, both governmental and com-
mercial. He managed to tour various Amer-
ican aircraft manufacturing facilities in per-
son, but most of his efforts were directed at
reviewing and analyzing the massive files of
clippings and publications readily available
from the American media.
Once World War II broke out in Europe
in September 1939, Riedels task was to de-
termine when American aircraft production
would be substantial enough to adversely af-
fect the military operations of the Axis pow-
Col. Friedrich von Boetticher (left), the German military attach in Washington, with Riedel.
Their relations were sometimes strained, as von Boetticher mistrusted both Riedels data
collection methods and his conclusions on the American aviation industrys potential
expansion and future aircraft production.
Right: A State Department translation of Riedels brief resume. He noted his prewar gliding
achievements and technical experience, as well as his service in the German Army.
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currents above the Potomac and had to be
towed back to College Park.
It was just for fun, Riedel is quoted as saying.
When I havent flown for 14 days, I feel bad.
Since the Kranich held two, he was able to
give glider rides to friends and colleagues. Riedel
also participated in various soaring events and
demonstrations around the United States, in-
cluding the 1938 Cleveland Air Races, where his
longtime friend and fellow glider pilot Hannah
Reitsch dazzled the crowds with her acrobatics.
Riedel normally based his glider at CollegePark Airport, although he flew out of other area
airports, including Hybla Valley in Virginia.
When it was not in use,
he was allowed to store
his Kranich at the U.S.
Above:In a September 1938 letter to the War Departments foreign liaison officer, von Boetticher asked for
permission to store a Kranich glider on Bowling [sic] Field or any other place near Washington.
Below:Riedels Kranich glider was a familiar sight at College Park Airport in nearby Maryland. Despite his
official duties as air attach, Riedel found time to fly it often and participated in various soaring events and
demonstrations around the United States. The tri-motored aircraft at right is a Stinson
SM-6000B, which was used as an airliner and executive transport in the 1930s.
Riedel at his desk at the German embassy. His
prediction that by 1942 American-built aircraft could
be supplied to the Allies in such quantity that they
would dominate the war in the air was not well-
received by the German High Command.
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Army Air Corps Bolling Field, in southwest
Washington, D.C.
In 1939, Congress authorized the War De-
partment to provide supplies and services to air-
craft used by accredited foreign military attachs,
so the U.S. Army ended up defraying much of
the expense of maintaining Riedels glider.
Now Married, Riedel is FBI Target;An Assault Incident Is DisregardedAfter war broke out in Europe, German diplo-
mats fell under greater scrutiny. On November
11, 1939, Riedel was involved in an alley argu-
ment, which became an international incident
and generated stories in the Washington papers.
Tis incident began innocently enough,
when Riedel borrowed a friends Buick au-
tomobile in order to retrieve his glider trail-
er from Skyline Drive in Virginia. Te Buick
was housed in a garage in Northeast Washing-
ton, D.C. While picking up the car, Riedel
inadvertently parked on a neighbors flower
bed. Te neighbor, an auto mechanic and ex-
boxer named Frank Werner, became enraged
and assaulted Riedel, leaving him bruised and
bloody. Police eventually arrived but did not
issue any citations since all those involved gave
conflicting stories.
Both parties were summoned to the assis-
tant district attorneys office the next day, but
Riedel never appeared, probably because the
German embassy was not contacted through
proper State Department channels, and the
embassy did not want him to appear in any
case. Since no complaint was filed against Wer-
ner, he was never charged.
Te German embassy did lodge a formal
protest of the incident with the State De-
partment. Dr. Karl Resenberg, first secretary
of the German embassy, was quoted as saying,
We do not consider the affair a personal con-
troversy between Riedel and Werner, but rath-
er an issue between two governments.
In any event, the State Department turned
it over to the Justice Department, which quiet-
ly closed the case.
In 1940, Riedel was promoted from technical
assistant to assistant air attach, with an increase
in salary and status. His personal life also under-
went a major adjustment. Riedel had taken up
horseback riding as a diversion, and on one of his
rides in Rock Creek Park, he met and fell in love
with a beautiful American of German descent,
Helen Kluge, who worked as an art teacher in
the District of Columbia public schools.
Riedel met resistance from von Boettich-
er when he requested permission to mar-
ry Helen. After Berlin officially approved the
match, the two married in July 1941. Von
Boettichers initial disapproval then evaporat-
ed, and he warmed to the relationship, arrang-
ing for a lavish reception at the embassy.
Leaving on a cross-country trip for their
honeymoon, the newly married Riedels were
followed by FBI agents. After some initial an-
tagonism, they and the agents became solici-
tous of one another. Once, Riedel waited for
the G-men, as FBI agents were known in the
slang of the day, to catch up when they were
delayed by heavy traffic, and later, the FBI
agents informed the Riedels when they had
missed the turn to their destination.
In 1940, an unwanted burst of notoriety for
German diplomats in America only indirectly
affected Riedel. Shot down over England and
captured, the Swiss-born Luftwaffe ace Bar-
on Franz von Werra escaped his guards while
en route to a POW camp in Canada, crossed
to the United States, and turned up at the Ger-
man embassy in Washington in January 1941.
Determined to get back to Germany, the
flamboyant von Werra made life difficult for
the German ambassador and for von Boettich
er. Riedel finally took von Werra aside and ex-
plained how he could covertly enter Mexico
then travel to South America, and from there
fly back to Europe.
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Von Werra followed Riedels advice and suc-
cessfully made his way back to Germany in
April 1941. He returned to active service, only
to die when the engine of his new Bf-109F
failed in a routine patrol over the North Sea on
October 25, 1941.
As War Begins, Riedel ReturnsTo Germany, Is Later BetrayedShortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor. Hitler declared war on the United
States. on December 11, 1941. Subsequent-
ly, U.S. authorities rounded up and interned
German diplomatic personnel and sent
them to the Greenbriar resort in West Vir-
ginia for safe-keeping. Riedels glider became
U.S. property and apparently was allowed to
rot to pieces at College Park Airport, ac-
cording to a history of the Skyline Soaring
Club. U.S. authorities also confiscated a
trunk full of 8mm movies Riedel had tak-
en while flying his glider around the coun-
try. German and Italian diplomats were put
aboard the old Swedish liner S.S. Drotting-
holm for repatriation.. It sailed from New
York on May 7, 1942, and arrived in Lisbon
on May 16. Te Riedels arrived in Frank-
furt-am-Main on May 25, 1942.
Helen Riedel, as the American wife of an
Axis diplomat, made the difficult choice to
accompany her husband back to Germa-
ny. Tere she contracted a lung disease and
eventually had to go to a sanitarium in Swit-
zerland for her health. While separated from
his wife, Riedel, an inveterate womanizer, en-
gaged in several romantic relationships with
other women. After being debriefed by Ger-
man authorities, Riedel began working for
the German Air Ministry. While there he
tried to convince the Nazi leaders in person
of the growing power of the American aircraft
industry, again without success.
Riedel managed to obtain an assignment to
Sweden as air attach, all the while working for
the Abwehr. Disillusioned by official indiffer-
ence to his warnings about the American air-
craft production and by published reports of
Nazi atrocities, he tried to contact Office of
Strategic Services chief Bill Donovan, whom he
had met in New York before the war, but the
OSS was uninterested in him.
Betrayed to German authorities by a confi-
dant of his current lover and recalled to Ger-
many, Riedel instead went into hiding in
Sweden, with the help of his female friends.
After the war, he fled Sweden only to be im-
prisoned by the French in Casablanca before
escaping on a yacht to Venezuela. Tere he
was joined by his faithful wife, Helen, who
had reclaimed her American citizenship after
returning to the United States from Switzer-
land. Leaving Venezuela, they went to Cana-
da, and when Riedel was expelled by the Ca-
nadians, to South Africa.
Finally able to return to the United States
in 1955, he worked as an engineer for rans
World Airlines and Pan American Airlines. In
retirement, he wrote a three-volume history of
the prewar German gliding movement and col-
laborated with fellow gliding enthusiast Martin
Simons on his biography. Riedel died in Ard-
more, Oklahoma, in 1998. His devoted wife,
Helen, died in a exas retirement home on De-
cember 11, 2000.
Riedel was a larger-than-life character who be-
came a world-renowned glider pilot, setting many
German, American, and international records.
Nominally a Nazi, he joined the party largely out
of self-interest and probably denied his member-
ship for the same reason. Te intelligence that he
gathered while in Washington certainly could
have proved valuable to the Nazi leadership if
they had acted on it. As for his adventures and ro-
mances, Riedel certainly told a good story, which
he was not above embellishing.
Probably the greatest glider pilot of his
time, he ranks among aviations most out-
standing pilots.
One thing is undeniable: Peter Riedel really
knew how to fly his Kranich.
Riedel with his wife, Helen Kluge, an American
of German descent. They married in July 1941,
and with the outbreak of war and expatriation
of German diplomats, Helen accompanied him
to Germany in 1942
In October 1938, the Chief of the Air Corps in-
formed the Adjutant General that he had no objec-
tion to housing a German glider at Bolling Field in
appreciation for the courtesies extended by the
German Government to our Attache abroad.
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To learn more about
he International Civil Aeronautics
Conference of 1928 held in Wash-
ington, D.C., go to www.archives.gov/
publications/prologue/2003/winter/.
Te early days of flight and a race to circum-
navigate the globe by air, go to www.archives.
gov/publications/prologue/2010/summer/.
Using State Department records for research,
go to www.archives.gov/research/foreign-policy/.
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DFS G-27 Kranich
Based on the Rhnsperber, his record-
breaking single-seat glider, Hans Jacobs
designed the DFS G-27 Kranich (Crane)
for the Deutsche Forschunganstalt
Fr Segelflug in 1935. A two-seater, the
Kranich became the standard German
high-performance gliding trainer because
it allowed dual instruction in almost every
element of flying. Used to set numerous
world and national records, it showed it-
self to be the best two-seat glider of its
time. Remaining in production into the
late 1950s, hundreds of Kranichs were
built in Germany and in other countries.
National Markings
Registered in Germany to avoid paying
U.S. import duties, and because it par-
ticipated in international competitions
in the United States, Riedels glider bore
the Third Reichs swastika insignia on its
vertical stabilizer and the German reg-
istration number, D-4-620, on the fuse-
lage. D stood for Deutschland, 4 signi-
fied the Berlin district where it was reg-
istered, and 620 was the individual air-
craft number.
In 1934, the Nazis required that all
German military and civil aircraft, includ-
ing both powered aircraft and sailplanes,
display the swastika-bedecked nation-
al flag of the Third Reich. The regulations
mandated it to appear on the left side of
the vertical stabilizer, with black, white,
and red horizontal bands of the national
colors on the right side. In 1936 the reg-
ulations were amended to require display
of the swastika insignia on both sides of
the vertical stabilizer.
Generally a red band went across the
entire vertical tail surface, with the white
circle and swastika centered on the tail.
Some necessary variation was allowed,
and Kranich gliders normally carried the
marking only on the movable portion of
the rudder, possibly because the man-
ufacturers markings appeared on the
fixed part of the gliders vertical stabilizer.
The basic color scheme of German glid-
ers was overall pale cream (FAS 1), but a
number of other colors were authorized,
including medium blue, medium brown,
medium gray, light green, and chrome yel-
low. Individual marking variations includ-
ed a sunburst pattern on the wing upper
surfaces. Some gliders appeared with oth-
er markings on the nose, including Naz
organization symbols, the name of the
glider type, individual aircraft name, or
the five Olympic rings, honoring of the
1936 Berlin Olympics.
See Erik Mombeek, Jagdwaffe: Birth o
the Luftwaffe Fighter Force (Luftwaffe
Colors , Volume One, Section 1). East Sussex
Classic Publications , 1999, pp. 2627.
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Author
Chas Downs is an artist, research
er, and archivist living in Howard
County, Maryland, with his wife
and cat. Retired after a career with
the National Archives, he is an active NARA voluntee
at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
N S
At the National Archives at College Park, Maryland, Re-
cord Group 59, Records of the Department of State, Decimal
Files covering the years 1939, 1940, and 1941, contain sever-
al references to Peter Riedel. Te most voluminous records,
concerning his altercation with Frank Werner, can be found
in the 19301939 Decimal Files, 701.6211-1110. Other ref-
erences are 701.6211-1031 and 1042. 811.7961/328, and
811.796 Sca 2/415. For 1940 and after, references to Rie-
del appear in Decimal Files 701.6111/1134, 701.6219/54,701.62701.6211-111011/1134, 800.20211/767 and 776,
and 811.7961/1439, 1501, 1541, 1558, and 1658.
OSS records relating to Riedel can be found in Record
Group 226, Records of the Office of Strategic Services, Clas-
sified Sources and Methods Files, Withdrawn Records
(Entry A-1, 215), File W21062; Records of Other Field
Bases, Field Station FilesStockholm-X-2-PS-2-7 (En-
try 125), Folder 2; and Field Station FilesStockholm-X-
2-PS-5 (Entry 125A), Folder 367. Te latter folder con-
tains a good photograph of Riedel standing next to the tail
of his glider.
Several references to Riedel and his activities as air
attach may be found in Record Group 165, Records
of the War Department General and Special Staffs,
G-2 (Military Intelligence Division), Foreign Liaison
Branch, Attach Military, German in Washington; see
the Index, and especially the following files: 343-B-21,
343-D-3, and 343-W-162.
Several articles concerning Riedel appeared in the Wash-
ington Post. A number relate to his accomplishments as a
glider pilot: July 1112, 1937, July 5, 1938, and Septem-
ber 26, 1938. Stories onDecember 4 and 5, 1939, cover
his scrape with Werner and its aftermath. Riedels alley
confrontation is also mentioned in a commentary column
Over the Coffee, by Harlan Miller, December 13 and 20,
1939. Several articles about von Werra appeared in theWash-
ington Postduring 1941, including one with a comment by
Riedel, April 23, 1941. Te fate of Riedels Kranich glider is
mentioned by Jim Kellett in Skyline Soaring Club in thewentieth Century, January 2000 (http://skylinesoaring.org/
HISORY/history-1.html).
A series of three articles about the Riedels by Mike
McCormick appeared in the erre Haute ribune Star
(www.ribstar.com/history),June 18, July 7, and July 14,
2007; Historical Perspective: Pilot under Vigilant Eye
of FBI made rip to erre Haute, Part I; Historical
Perspective: Te Continuing Story of Peter and Helen
Riedel. Part II; and Te Story of Peter and Helen Rie-
del, Part III. Helen Kluge Riedel was a erre Haute na-
tive, and she and Peter visited her relatives there when
they were being trailed by the FBI.
Not readily available in the United States is Martin Si-
monss German Air Attach: Te Trilling Story of German
Ace Pilot and Wartime Diplomat Peter Riedel(Ramsbury,
UK: Airlife, 1997). Simons, a British author and glider
pilot, based this book on a typescript written by Riedel
and tape recordings of their conversations, as well as other
material provided by Riedel. Written in the first person, it
reads as if it were Riedels autobiography and is the source
of information for most secondary works on Riedel.
A scholarly biography of the German military attach
in Washington, Alfred M. Becks Hitlers Ambivalent At-
tach: Lt. Gen. Friedrich von Boetticher in America, 1933
1941 (Washington DC: Potomac Books, 2005), puts
Riedels activities in the context of his position in the Ger-
man embassy and with the German government in Ber-
lin, as well in as sketching out the diplomatic atmosphere
of prewar Washington, D.C. A former Army historian,
Beck had access to some of Riedels papers and photo-
graphs provided by the executor of his estate.
A curator at the National Air and Space Museum, Von
Hardesty puts Riedel into a different context, that of out-standing pilots and historic flights. Von Hardesty. Great
Aviators and Epic Flights (Southport, C: Hugh Laut-
er Levin Associates, Inc., 2002). In the chapter Riedel:
Soaring to Washington, pp. 142153, of this well-illus-
trated coffee-table size book, Hardesty provides a detailed
account of Riedels 1938 flight from Elmira, New York,
to Washington, D.C., which closely follows Riedels own
description in Martin Simonss book. While unfootnot-
ed, this account was apparently based on Riedel estate ar-
chival materials currently in Hardestys possession.
An entertaining book based on Luftwaffe ace von
Werras exploits, Te One that Got Away,by Burt Kendal
and James Leasor, came out in 1956. A movie of the same
name, starring Hardy Kruger, appeared in the next year.