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Long Tom


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The popular image is of him being dark-haired with curly mustaches, while the actual Baron von Richtofen was blonde and clean-shaven.  So why does the false image persist?



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TinCanTadpole


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That false image is entirely new to me!

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Long Tom


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TinCanTadpole wrote:

That false image is entirely new to me!

 This is just one of many incarnations:

http://www.redbaron.com/



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LincolnTanker


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You may find the pizzas also don't look like the photo. no



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d_fernetti


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Because the real Manfred Von Richthofen looks like a golden boy of 25, hardly the stereotypical looks of the dastardly Hun pilot. In any case, the "villain" looks seem to fit more to Rudolph Berthod, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Berthold



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Rob


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Aside from the pizza company i've never seen him depicted with a moustache before. The recent film depicted him as a blonde clean shaven boy

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TinCanTadpole


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d_fernetti wrote:

Because the real Manfred Von Richthofen looks like a golden boy of 25, hardly the stereotypical looks of the dastardly Hun pilot.

 

Presumably 'dastardly' in the eyes of the British public, since he was respected by the men who fought against him and buried with all honours.



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Of course, "dastardly" in the eyes of popular pulp literature and serial films of the 20s and 30s. Veterans would hardly find any connection to the real horror of war through those depictions. It's said that the best WW1 aviation novel is "Winged Victory" (written by a veteran WW1 fighter pilot) and it hardly ever mentions enemy pilots!

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