Camair From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (7 years 7 months 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 3799 times:
I'm rather new to a.net and wondering if it was ever discussed why LH is currently using their '50th anniversary' in advertisement.
In reality, 1955 was the year of resumption of civil flights after the second world war. By promoting this 'happy occasion', they omit their past before 1955. On their webpage http://50.lufthansa.com/php/chronik.php?lang=en
, the timeline starts in 1955, although I'm quite sure that they were active during the Nazi regime and supporting it. Who knows more about the complete past of LH?
TheSonntag From Germany, joined Jun 2005, 3347 posts, RR: 30 Reply 1, posted (7 years 7 months 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 3784 times:
LH after the war is a completely new company in a legal point of view. They bought the name from the old Lufthansa, but they do not have anything in common with the old company.
While I agree its sometimes strange to see that LH identifies with their pre-1955 period and sometimes not, just after what suits them best, its a) wrong to imply a Nazi past for Lufthansa and b) correct to celebrate the 50th anniversary last year.
Don't forget that German civil law is much older than the German state. Today there is no doubt anymore that the Federal Republic of Germany is the legal successor of the German Reich. Therefore, companies which were founded before the end of the Reich retained their legal status, they were legal companies before the end of the Reich and this status remained unaffected by the end of the war. LH, however, was disbanded by the allies after the war.
The new LH was set up by the new West German government after 2nd world war, it started with US pilots and US equipment and has a completely different tradition.
Malaysia From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 3185 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (7 years 7 months 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 3681 times:
Deutsche Flugdienst confuses me with Condor cause the Focke-Wulf Fw-200 actully displays its name and it says Condor on the fuselage, making me think Condor Flugdienst was older than modern LH even it was 1955.
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HT From Germany, joined May 2005, 6473 posts, RR: 27 Reply 3, posted (7 years 7 months 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 3617 times:
Quoting Malaysia (Reply 2): Deutsche Flugdienst confuses me with Condor cause the Focke-Wulf Fw-200 actully displays its name and it says Condor on the fuselage, making me think Condor Flugdienst was older than modern LH even it was 1955.
The offical name of the Focke-Wulf Fw-200 was "Condor".
No relation with DE.
-HT
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TriStar500 From Germany, joined Nov 1999, 4685 posts, RR: 47 Reply 5, posted (7 years 7 months 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 3532 times:
These different timelines certainly can become somewhat confusing, although with the thorough research and analysis of the role of Lufthansa and other big German companies during the Third Reich, which started some years after the war, it cannot be said that LH is trying to hide "darker" parts of its past.
Still it is confusing to see LH celebrate their 50th anniversary - and at the same time offer flights on the much older Ju-52 under the guise of "Lufthansa Traditionsflug" (traditional flight) and in pre-war LH colors.
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Mrniji From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (7 years 7 months 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 3350 times:
This is an interesting topic, even I was wondering about why 50 yrs?... Andreas has provided a good link FROM LH, but I would also be interested to read something about the pre-1955 times by some (allegedly) neutral researcher, or "the other side" .. maybe someone has coherent hands-on information or a link-tip?
I've seen a great program on Lufhansa the other day on one german channel. Finishing up the story with one captain in his last flight from Johannesburg to Frankfurt on an A340. Really enjoyed this one.
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