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==Kidnapping==

==Kidnapping==

Lindbergh's life was touched with tragedy when his twenty-month-old baby was kidnapped, and ultimately killed, by Bruno Richard Hauptmann.

Lindbergh's life was touched with tragedy when his twenty-month-old baby was kidnapped, and accidentally killed, by Bruno Richard Hauptmann.  The Lindberghs left the country and settled in France.

==World War II==

==World War II==

Lindbergh visited Germany in 1938 on a mission for the U.S. Air Corps. he studied and was impressed by the "Luftwaffe", the German air force, warning Americans it had the best equipment in the world. He accepted a medal from [[Hermann Goering]] for his services to aviation. He attracted criticism and some regarded him as a [[Nazi]] sympathizer, a charge he strongly denied and which historians generally reject.  Lindbergh strongly opposed U.S. entry into the [[Second World War]], and suggested that if the U.S. did enter, it should be on the side of Germany.

Lindbergh visited Germany in 1938 on a mission for the U.S. Air Corps. he studied and was impressed by the "Luftwaffe", the German air force, warning Americans it had the best equipment in the world. He accepted a medal from [[Hermann Goering]] for his services to aviation. He attracted criticism and some regarded him as a [[Nazi]] sympathizer, a charge he strongly denied and which historians generally reject.  Lindbergh strongly opposed U.S. entry into the [[Second World War]], and suggested that if the U.S. did enter, it should be on the side of Germany.

* Berg, A. Scott. ''Lindbergh'' (1999), the best biography [http://www.amazon.com/Lindbergh-Scott-Berg/dp/0425170411/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229819245&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]

* Berg, A. Scott. ''Lindbergh'' (1999), the best biography [http://www.amazon.com/Lindbergh-Scott-Berg/dp/0425170411/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229819245&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]

* Mosely, Leonard. ''Lindbergh: A Biography'' (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/Lindbergh-Biography-Leonard-Mosley/dp/0486409643/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229819245&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]

* Mosely, Leonard. ''Lindbergh: A Biography'' (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/Lindbergh-Biography-Leonard-Mosley/dp/0486409643/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229819245&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]

* Ward, John William. "The Meaning of Lindbergh's Flight," American Quarterly 10, no. 1 (Spring 1958) pp 3-16 [http://www.h-net.org/~hst203/readings/ward.html online]

* Ward, John William. "The Meaning of Lindbergh's Flight," ''American Quarterly'' 10, no. 1 (Spring 1958) pp 3-16 [http://www.h-net.org/~hst203/readings/ward.html online]

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