"Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe" The Sea Hawk @See My Sig.com wrote in message
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You likely would be interested in reading this (slide down to page 6):

http://www.sac.ca/index2.php?option=...37 &Itemid=88

A first person account of learning to glide in pre-war Germany.

"I Learned to Fly for Hitler" by Joe Volmer gives a similar account.
http://www.eglider.org/index.php?act...&productId=140 Unfortunately, one
must buy before reading, but it was money well spent.

Vaughn