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Luftwaffe

Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe, one of the components of the German Armed Forces, entrusted the German air defense and the country’s air force commitments abroad. During World War II, Germany was the aircraft warfare branch of the Luftwaffe Wehrmacht as a weapon of military aircraft; According to the Versailles Treaty, Germany forbade any air force. The structure of the Luftwaffe reflected the intense reflection of its commander, Hermann Goring, and from 1939 to 1945, more than three million people served in the Air Force, Air Defense, and Paratrooper units. In 1946, the German Air Force broke the winning Allied Powers.

In 1939 and 1940 the Luftwaffe played a supporting role in the German conquest of Poland and Western Europe. During the British war, after inflicting heavy casualties on the RAF’s infrastructure and destroying many British cities during the subsequent blitz, the German air force failed to suppress the defeated British. In the face of British resistance, Hitler changed tactics in the British war and abandoned his attack plan and tried to bomb London. However, in this promotion, the Luftwaffe was hampered by a shortage of tactical, far-flung bombers, and the war in Britain ended in early 1941. From 1942 onwards, the Allies bombed and slowly destroyed the Luftwaffe fighter forces. In late 1942, the Luftwaffe expanded its Luftwaffe field sections, using its surplus ground support and other personnel. As Hitler fought fiercely to overthrow Russia’s intense resistance, the desperate Luftwaffe in the face of rising British and American airstrikes had consistently lost air superiority over Europe. During the D-Day invasion of Normandy in June 1944, Luftwaffe’s fleet was a skeleton of its former tone.

The Luftwaffe was disbanded in 1946 following the defeat of Germany. During World War II, German pilots claimed the victory of about 70,000 aircraft, while more than 75,000 Luftwaffe aircraft crashed or were significantly damaged. Originally arranged with American aircraft, West German airlines also received aviation training in the United States. The demand for labor of the Luftwaffe was one of the reasons for the deportation and murder of thousands of Hungarian Jews in 1944. Oberkommando deer Luftwaffe conducted humanitarian tests of the Nazis, and the ground troops of the Luftwaffe carried out massacres in Italy, Greece, and Poland. However, the Luftstreetcraft or the “Air Armed Forces” are sometimes used as translations of “Air Force”. And while “Luft” means “air” and “woof” can be translated into English as “weapon” or “arm”, “air arm” can be considered the most literal English translation of Luftwaffe.