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Hans Robert Fritz Hahn who was nicknamed Assi was a German Luftwaffe military aviator during World War II, a fighter ace credited with 108 enemy aircraft shot down in 560 combat missions. He claimed 66 victories over the Western Front, of which 53 were Supermarine Spitfires. Of the 42 victories he recorded over the Eastern Front, at least seven were Il2 Sturmovik groundattack aircraft.

Hahn was born onApril 1914 in Gotha, at the time in SaxeCoburg and Gotha, presentday in Thuringia. His parents were Arthur, a Finanzrat , and his mother Helene. He also had an older sister named Kte. A talented athlete, he was selected to participate in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin in the Pentathlon, but he had to withdraw due to illness. His friends initially nicknamed him Hansi, a diminutive of his first name Hans, which over time was abbreviated and altered to Assi.

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