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    Information on Hans Joachim Marseille (Star of Africa)?

    Times were definitely different back then, but maybe she and Marseille's mother liked each other and after Marseille's mother lost her son 1942 and her daughter was murderd in 1941 she liked having someone around. And in 1943 she became a German citizen again, so maybe that has also something to...
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    Information on Hans Joachim Marseille (Star of Africa)?

    You are right, what a understand from the photo is that she lived with Marseille his mother after his death and that she trained and worked as a opera singer during and after the war.
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    Information on Hans Joachim Marseille (Star of Africa)?

    Amazing! Do you know what happend to her after the war?
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    Information on Hans Joachim Marseille (Star of Africa)?

    Your welcome. If the information is right her full name was Hanne-Lies de Bahar-Stephani-Küpper, which means that Küpper was her maiden name and that she married twice. First to Martin Stephani, but later she married again to someone with the name of De Bahar. I don't know if she was the fiancee...
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    Information on Hans Joachim Marseille (Star of Africa)?

    Martin Stephani (2 November 1915 – 9 June 1983) married a singer called Hanne-Lies Küpper on 28 December 1944. During WW2 he served as a SS-Obersturmführer in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. After the war is became a professor of conducting at the Detmold University of...
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    My first post

    Hi everyone, I am Patrick from the Netherlands. I have been a WW2 collector for years. Does any of you know good books about the German Air Force in WW2?
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    Information on Hans Joachim Marseille (Star of Africa)?

    I don't know if you are still looking for information?
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