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This unique book expands the contribution of aviation psychology
and human factors to the aviation industry within the Asia Pacific
region, with participation from many other parts of the globe, and
key local and international experts, developing the safety,
efficiency and viability of the industry. It is a forward-looking
work, providing new strategies for psychology and human factors to
increase the safe and effective functioning of aviation
organisations and systems, pertinent to both civil and military
operations. This is the formal refereed proceedings of The Fifth
Australian Aviation Psychology Symposium, Manly Beach, Sydney 2000.
The symposium had a diverse range of contributions and Development
Workshops, bringing together practitioners from aviation psychology
and human factors, flight operations management, safety managers,
pilots, cabin crew, air traffic controllers, engineering and
maintenance personnel, air safety investigators, staff from
manufacturers and regulatory bodies, and applied aviation industry
researchers and academics. This book will be of interest to anyone
involved in human factors, safety systems or aviation psychology
within both the civil and military aviation industry.
Eva and Otto is a truestory about German opposition and resistance
to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski
Pfister (1910-1991) and Otto Pfister (1900-1985). It is an intimate
and epic account of two Germans-Eva born Jewish, Otto born
Catholic-who worked with a little-known German political group that
resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then
in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in May 1940.
After their improbable escapes from separate internment and
imprisonment in Europe, Eva obtained refuge in America in October
1940 where she worked to rescue other endangered political
refugees, including Otto, with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt. As
revealed in recently declassified records, Eva and Otto later
engaged in different secret assignments with the US Office of
Strategic Services (OSS) in support of the Allied war effort.
Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Eva and Otto gave each
other hope and strength as they acted upon what they understood to
be an ethical duty to help others threatened by fascism. The book
provides a sobering insight into the personal risks and costs of a
commitment to that duty. Their unusually beautiful writing-directed
to each other in diaries and correspondence during two long periods
of wartime separation-also reveals an unlikely and inspiring love
story.
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