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Re: Luftwaffe personnel and Nazi-party membership
Hans, I guess you did a typo with the date 24.9.45. I doubt much people joined the Nazi party at this date....
The Luftwaffe being the most recent branch of the military (not counting SS) probably had the most of Nazi party members joining it.
I think part of the anti-nazi attitude, or rather no-nazi attitude (anti-nazi implies for me to fight the Nazi regime, and very few airmen did this as far as I know), is probably rather a form of the usual behaviour of pilots that tend to ignore rules, or at least give this impression, in all countries, than a real political position.
In all probability the Luftwaffe was at least as much nazified as the German society of the time.
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