Episode 1: The Last Request
1. Suzanne and Gabriele Rico, taken June 2012, just after Gabriele was diagnosed with cancer.
2. Robert Lusser, left, with Ernst Udet, patron and Luftwaffe Colonel General, and Willy Messerschmitt, 1936.
3. The Flying Bomb, New York Times. August 19, 1944.
Episode 2: Candles in the Window
1. Robert Lusser, race pilot and aeronautical engineer, 1928.
2. Robert Lusser and Elly Beinhorn, c. 1928.
3. Robert and Hilde Lusser on the Jungfräu after he landed on the Aletsch Glacier, 1928.
4. Tante Traute and Tante Heide, 2018.
Episode 3: Into the Fire
1. Kassel, Germany after it was carpet bombed, 1943.
2. Rebuilt Kassel apartment building that was hit by incendiary bomb on Oct. 22, 1943.
3. Suzanne Rico in the Kassel basement where her mother waited out the bombing in 1943.
4. Robert Lusser, 1942, after the war crimes trial.
Episode 4: V is for Vengeance
1. Robert Lusser with Peenemunde team and Nazi leaders (see names below), May 1943.
2. The V1 flying bomb being loaded onto Walther catapult.
3. The Lusser Children, 1942 (clockwise from top left: Heide, Dorle, Ulrich, Traute, Gabi.
4. Suzanne Rico at the former Peenemunde Army Research Center, 2016 (V1 in background).
Episode 5: Chamber 44
1. Tante Traute and Tante Heide on Traute’s 90th birthday.
2. Oskar Jakob and Suzanne Rico speak at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum, 2024.
3. Suzanne and Stephanie Rico at entrance to Mittlebau Dora concentration camp, 2016.
4. Chamber 44 in the tunnels of Mittlebau Dora concentration camp, 2016.
Episode 6: Broken Glass
1. Stephanie Rico and Alois at the Stottnerhof, 2016.
2. Stottnerhof Farm, pre-bombing.
3. Bomb crater, Stottnerhof farm in Bavaria, 2016.
4. Stephanie and Suzanne Rico at their grandmother’s grave, 2016.
5. Stottnerhof farm, rebuilt, c. 2016.
Episode 7: The Dark Road of the Future
1. Heide, Gabi, and Traute, C 2012.
2. Suzanne Rico and her mom, Gabriele Lusser Rico, shortly before she died in March 2013.
3. Gabriele Lusser Rico, 2013, shortly before she died.
4. Hilde Lusser, c. 1926.
5. Robert Lusser, Aeronautical Engineer, Post World War 2.
Episode 8: Lost Souls
1. Robert Lusser artifacts.
2. Suzanne Rico with original of The Man Who Calculated Death article 2016.
3. Tante Heide and Tante Traute, when Heide was very ill.
4. Robert Lusser’s Knight’s Cross, 2016.
Episode 9: Unintended Consequences
1. B-17 Crew, c. 1945. Pilot Bob Derry, back row, second from right.
2. B-17 Crew, c 1945, Tommy McGowan, upper row, third from left.
3. Tommy McGowan, B-17 tail gunner, Age 19.
4. Heide Lusser Kingsbury, 1948.
5. Robert Lusser wearing Knight’s Cross (center frame).
6. Gabriele Lusser’s picture on her immigration paperwork.
