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Old 22nd November 2008, 10:47
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Re: Luftwaffe Myths

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Originally Posted by Oxby R View Post
I’m astonished anyone feels able to describe the Luftwaffe and German air defence system as ‘mediocre’.. ... even toward the end of the war.
There were a lot of actions toward the end of the war when Luftwaffe performance might best be described as terrible. That doesn't mean that there weren't good pilots and aircraft still flying but the state of training had sunk desperately low.

And my impression of Nazi ideology is that the servicemen they really idolised were the dead ones, in my view the whole thing was a death cult.
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