On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 04:02:26 GMT, Orval Fairbairn
wrote:

Lufthansa to survive the war. (They didn't fly
again until the late 1950s)

In 1958 I was working at The Overseas Weekly, which had its offices on
the second story of the Frankfurt Press Club. (Which no doubt was war
booty of some sort.) A lot of the members of the Press Club were
American pilots flying for Lufthansa.

Someone told me that the deal was that Boeing or Douglas sold the
airplanes to LH complete with air crews.

(Good point about the film and the war. There was little sense that
WWII was actually happening, save as a possible market for Hughes
Aircraft. I doubt that was true even in Hollywood.)