After The War
Barkhorn joined the Bundesluftwaffe in 1956, rose to command JaboG 31 “Boelcke” and retired in 1976 with the rank of Generalleutnant.
On 6 January 1983, during a winter storm on an autobahn near Köln, he and his wife Christl were involved in a car accident; his wife died instantly and Barkhorn died in hospital on 8 January 1983. They were buried in Tegernsee, Bavaria.
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Famous quotes containing the word war:
“There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is a war to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom—against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)