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

There was also one major script error. When hughes was plotting to take
TWA international (about '43-'44) he was stalking about the competition
and included Lufthansa. HELLO! We were fighting Germany at the time and
certainly wouldn't expect Lufthansa to survive the war. (They didn't fly
again until the late 1950s)


check the LH site:
http://konzern.lufthansa.com/en/html/ueber_uns/geschichte/chronik/index.html

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(...)
After substantial expansion of the route network in 1939—including flights
to Bangkok and Santiago de Chile—wartime air services, except for a few
European countries, are suspended. All flights are discontinued in 1945 and
Lufthansa goes into receivership and is finally wound up and struck from
the Berlin commercial register in 1965.

The Federal Transport Minister sets up a working committee in 1951 to
prepare for the resumption of air traffic in postwar Germany and entrusts
the job of implementation to "Büro Bongers", the office headed by Hans M.
Bongers, the traffic chief of the old Lufthansa in Cologne. A new company
to run air services and named "Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf"
(Luftag) is founded in Cologne on January 6, 1953. The company changes its
name to the more traditional "Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft" in
1954, and resumes scheduled flights on April 1, 1955.
(...)
---snap

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Oh. God. What have we done.