Erich Hartmann was a German World War II fighter pilot who holds the record for the highest number of aerial victories in history, with 352 confirmed kills. However, his story does not end there. After the war, Hartmann was captured by Soviet forces and spent over 10 years in the infamous Soviet Gulag, surviving brutal […]
Erich Hartmann was a German fighter pilot during World War II and the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. Hartmann survived the war, but was later captured by Soviet forces and spent years in the Gulag, the Soviet Union’s vast network of forced labor camps. Despite the brutal conditions and the […]