In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement By John Hylan Heminway

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As a member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years, earning herself the cherished nickname “Mama Daktari”—“Mother Doctor.” Yet few knew that what drove her from post-World War II Europe to Africa was a past marked by rebellion, submission, and personal decisions that earned her another nickname—this one sinister—while working as a “doctor” in a Nazi concentration camp. In Full Flight explores the question of whether it is possible to rewrite one’s past by doing good in the present, and takes readers on an extraordinary journey into a dramatic life punctuated by both courage and weakness and driven by a powerful need to atone.

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In Full Fight has two rival threads--Anne Marie Spoerry's public life as a flying doctor in Kenya, and her secret life in a Nazi concentration camp.It pits the persona of the eccentric, do-good “Mama Daktari” - venerated for 50 years as a dedicated humanitarian/flying doctor in Africa, against a dark antagonist---her erstwhile shadow self in Ravensbrück.As a prisoner in the women-only SS concentration camp, Anne, attractive medical student, traded much to gain personal advantage. The understory, discovered by Heminway, constitutes a dramatic foil to the beloved Mama Daktari.Out of sight were her war crimes, a forced escape to Africa, and a life-long cover-up—a profile in common with Nazi war criminals, but with a difference. Ann never disguised her identity. While, technically, she might not have lied about who she was (as she never spoke of the prison years), she can be said to have lived her life as a lie, seemingly heedless of the ever present jeopardy of being exposed.Heminway’s story is more than an intriguing narrative of two faces of Anne. Of necessity, it prompts an examination of the clash between animal survival instincts and conscientious limits on action that define moral behavior.John Heminway is deft in presenting the moral issues as a substrate to the primary narrative, without conjecture and without judgment. The reader is free to ponder the conundrum for himself.Mind you, Heminway’s restraint is not a ploy. He simply did not believe he had standing to speak with authority or render fair judgment, given what is unknowable about Anne’s circumstances in Ravensbrück.So far as anyone knows, Anne never admitted she was doing penance or seeking atonement in Africa. She never expressed regret and never explained. Luckily for her, the few Ravensbrück witnesses who might have condemned her later in life, remained mostly silent. Never challenged during her later life, Anne never had to argue the merits of her case in defense.As for the reader, the debate lies at the fault line between what one could and couldn’t do, as a moral matter, in order to survive in a Nazi concentration camp. For example, can self sacrifice ever be the outcome ordained by a moral precept? The law does not require it, but it might as well. Survival at any cost would not excuse any who saved himself or herself by intentionally causing the death of another.What is perverse is that prisoners in Nazi concentration camps were not intent on killing each other, but in order to survive they were forced into playing musical chairs with that outcome. The concentration camps’ killing machines had to be fed ---only 15,000 prisoners of the 130,000 interned in Ravensbrück survived.The case of Anne Marie Spoerry is murkier than the abstract hypothetical case. Did she do to excess (beyond what might be argued as necessary to assure her own survive)? It might seem so. But, had she not collaborated to the extent she did, presumably currying favor aligned with an actual or feigned love for an amoral fellow prisoner linked to the SS, the emotional tie between the two (her life line) might have been broken, and she in consequence left to an ill fate. All such are plausible possibilities, laid out by Heminway.In Full Flight’s nuanced and fast-paced writing, suspenseful narrative and moral questions make it an ideal read for book clubs - a bird nest on the ground for group discussion - as well as the lone reader.John C. MacMurray

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