>>3971081Hartmann has a short discussion of his meeting with Rudel. It was at Kursk, so the same event Rudel recounts.
>This was on August 20, 1943. Our orders were to support Rudel's Stukas in a counterattack. Rudel is a man I respect, but he was, to be polite, just insane. He was perhaps the bravest man I ever knew, but then again you have to use common sense in combat, at some point. He was probably the luckiest man who ever lived. I just think that he did not care about his own safety.