Pictures and documents chronicling Erika's tenure as a "Stabshelferin" in the German Wehrmacht. In 1944 Erika was a passenger in a Focke-Wulf FW 200 C-4 Condor flying back to Germany. There were 46 passengers on board, mostly German Wehrmacht nurses. The plane was enroute from Finland to Narvik, Norway with a stopover in Banak. After taking off from Banak airport the plane was either shot down or had a structural malfunction and went down near Lavangsfjorden, approximately 40km west of Narvik. All 46 passengers and the crew of 5 including the pilot, Leutnant Hans Gilbert perished. 41 of the bodies were recovered and are buried at Narvik, Norway. Erika was one of the recovered victims.
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