ESG Grunau training glider, Germany, 1932. Creator: Unknown.

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ESG Grunau training glider, Germany, 1932. Trainee pilots learning to fly a glider with speed of 55-60 kilometres per hour, made by ESG (Edmund Schneider, Grunau). From "Die Eroberung Der Luft", (The Conquest of the Air), cigarette card album produced by the Garbáty cigarette factory, 1932. Eugene and Moritz Garbáty, who were Jewish, were driven out of business by the Nazis in the late 1930s, and forced to sell their factory which lay empty for over 70 years. [Garbaty Cigarettenfabrik, Berlin-Pankow, 1932]

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License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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