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Summary:Germany dominated Grand Prix motor racing in the 1930s, Hitler using the sport to demonstrate his country's engineering superiority. A Mercedes won the 1938 Berlin Grand Prix. The driver? A young Englishman, Richard Seaman. Seaman a great racing driver, but his German connection has seen him written out of history. Former racing drivers, racing historians and rare archive footage tells his extraordinary story, including his untimely death while chasing glory on a rain-soaked Belgian racetrack. Seaman's London funeral was graced by a six-foot lily wreath - from Adolf Hitler.
Description:A Secret History: the story of Dick Seamen,one of Britain's greatest ever racing drivers. Seaman has been almost erased from history because he raced not for Britain,but for the German Mercedes team at the height of Nazism. When he died while racing in the Belgian Grand Prix in 1939,the biggest wreath at his funeral said 'From Adolf Hitler'.