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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 ultimately killed, by Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
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Lindbergh visited Germany in 1938 and was impressed by and spoke favorably of the German air force. He accepted a medal from Hermann Goering for his services to aviation. He became politically controversial because it appeared that he did not have strenuous objections to the Nazi cause, and some regarded him as a Nazi sympathizer.
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Lindbergh visited Germany in 1938 and was impressed by and spoke favorably of the German air force. He accepted a medal from Hermann Goering for his services to aviation. He became politically controversial because it appeared that he did not have strenuous objections to the Nazi cause, and some regarded him as a Nazi sympathizer. Lindbergh strongly opposed U.S. entry into the Second World War, and advized that if the U.S. should enter, it should do so on the side of Germany.
    
He worked as a civilian consultant to aviation companies, particularly Pan American Airways. He flew all over the world scouting possible routes that Pan Am could fly.
 
He worked as a civilian consultant to aviation companies, particularly Pan American Airways. He flew all over the world scouting possible routes that Pan Am could fly.
    
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