Hartmann Grasser (1914-1986)
	Major ZG52, JG51 and JG1 +700 missions of combat, 103 victories Prisoner of war

As few of its generation, the Austrian Hartmann Grasser was in combat during all the war - of the first one to the last day of the biggest conflict of History -, having flied in more than 700 missions, to the long one of which it reached the respectable mark of 103 aerial victories. E, besides having survived to the hard tests of day-by-day of the war, Grasser also would suffer the provacao from ten years of Soviet captivity. Been born in the Austrian city of Graz, in 23 of August of 1914, Hartmann Grasser entered the Air Force of its native country in middle of the Thirties. With the annexation of Austria to III the Reich in 1938 (the Anschluss call), all the military cash of that country was incorporated the Wehrmacht. Soon, Grasser was incorporated the Luftwaffe, being assigned to serve in Zerstorergeschwader 2 - unit that operated the Twin Engine Derstroyers Messerschmitt Bf 110.     The first victory of Grasser would still come in the Campaign of the Poland, being that by this fact it would be decorated with the Cross of Iron of 2? Classroom in 17.09.1939. But soon it would obtain to be transferred to that one that would be one of the units of the elite of the Luftwaffe: the JG51 (Jagdgeschwader 51), that 109E operated the modern huntings monorank Bf. Another factor that became this so special unit was that it was commanded for one of the biggest aces of history: Werner Molders. Grasser would fight successfully in this unit during the campaigns of the Blitzkrieg in Holland, Belgium and France, being decorated with the Cross of Iron of 1? Classroom in 07 of July of 1940, when reaching the mark of eight confirmed victories. The combats would continue in the following months, now against a tenacious enemy and well chemical preparation: the RAF. Fighting on waters of the Channel, Grasser would finish if becoming one them preferred Rottenflieger of Molders. As well as all the JG51, Grasser was re-located to the east to participate of the invasion of the Soviet Union in June of 1941. In this front of combat, its number of victories was raised quickly, due to a still unprepared enemy. When reaching its 35 victory, in 04 of September of 1941, already the Hauptmann Hartmann Grasser was decorated with the Knight's Cross. The fight would continue all for the hard winter of 1941-42 and during all the following year. Grasser would be decorated with the Germanic Cross in 19 of September of 1942 , in 31 of August of 1943, when reaching its 90th confirmed victory, it was convoked to the Headquarters of Hitler to receive from its hands Leves of Oak Da Cruz of Knight, becoming 288 welded to receive such it would honor. Shortly afterwards, Grasser would be sent for the Defense of the Reich, starting to act together to Jagdgeschwader 11. It was in this unit, that it would serve until the end of the war. When of the surrender, in May of 1945, it was captured by American troops in the Checoslovaquia but he finished being delivers to the Soviets shortly afterwards. It would remain 10 years in Russian captivity, defendant of "crimes of war" against the Soviet people. In this period it became one of the symbols of the resistance the ideological siege practised by the Communists and a fierce critic of whom they had lost to the temptations - between them, supposedly it was Hermann Graf. On this time, Major Grasser wrote, many years later: " I was rigorous during my period of capture in Russia. I criticized any one that fraquejasse. But now I have more experience in the life and a more tolerant vision. I today know better the weaknesses human beings. It is therefore that I am not so hard with Hermann Graf as the others have been. I already dis it excessively on my opinions, because nobody that ignored the atmosphere of the Soviet confinement could judge a man under those conditions." After its release, in 1955, Grasser fixed in then Germany Occidental person, where it came to falecer in the city of Colony (Koln), of natural causes, in 02 of June of 1986, to the 71 years of age.