Claim: Barbara Hines was born Barbara Fritzsche and whose father served in the Luftwaffe, the aerial warfare branch of the Wehrmacht during World War II.
Evidence: Hines was born Barbara Fritzsche in Germany, the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Her father served in the Luftwaffe but was imprisoned after they found out that his mother was Jewish; he later escaped and moved to West Germany where he married and had two children. The Luftwaffe (German pronunciation: [ˈlʊftvafə (listen)) was the aerial warfare branch of the Wehrmacht during World War II.