Bernd Rosemeyer Die Schicksalsfahrt Auto Union Photo Book & Nonfiction

by Kirchberg

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Bernd Rosemeyer: The journey of fate In the late morning hours of the 28th In January 1938, a silver racing car shot down the long, straight stretch of the Frankfurt – Darmstadt motorway at a speed of well over 400 km/h. He was supposed to break a competition record and set a new best time over the kilometer with a flying start. The trip ended in fiasco. The car skidded, flew off the track, lost the driver and body. The fatally injured driver of the record car was Bernd Rosemeyer, the ace racing driver of the Saxon Auto Union, who enjoyed immense popularity at the time and whose name is still remembered today. There were questions after questions after the fatal fall: What was the cause of the catastrophe? Who was to blame for this? What was the point of such record runs anyway? They are still relevant today and continue to challenge new considerations and investigations. The automobile historian Peter Kirchberg, known for his publications on the history of Auto Union, is publishing a book in which the topic is taken up again from today's perspective and explained using many documents. Journalists such as Uwe Day and Eberhard Reuß devote themselves to the typical context of the 1930s in order to also look at the racing driver in his social environment. Martin Schröder puts forward a new theory about the cause of the accident and supports it with previously little-known image documents. Jürgen Pönisch wrote Bernd Rosemeyer's CV with particular emphasis on his sporting successe

• Publisher: Delius Klasing
• ISBN: 9783768825054
• Condition: Very Good

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