He had not always been a stone-faced “Man of Ice.” Luetzow had once been a scholar, a track star, and a pilot whom his comrades affectionately called “Franzl” because he was “popular with all ranks because of his easy charm and warm personality.”2 In Spain, he had been the first pilot ever to score a victory in the 109, then a new machine. But when he came home he saw the values of The Party and how the 44 percent had taken over Germany. Luetzow wrote in his diary, “The omnipresent, primitive anti-Semitism in the Reich pisses me off.”3 Luetzow became conflicted. He had been raised in a
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