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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“Behold now this vast city; a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and hands there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)