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Re: Need assistance: Role of the Luftwaffe/Germany in the Battle of Britain?
Peter,
Your reaction seems to illustrate the potency of the popular view of this period. Alone in the war, defiant in face of invasion and victorious in the air against all odds. The situation was just perfect, it is hard not to become mythical. It is unfortunate that this makes it difficult to accept any evidence to the contrary even if based on the highest echelons of the Nazi regime, military leadership or hard statistics.
At least one must accept that to fully understand the Battle of Britain also requires the German view of events, even if it doesn't fit the myth.
In the end few will disagree that the German effort was half hearted at best.
Prien is refreshing, so was the coverage in the new Werner Moelders biography by Kurt Braatz.
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Ruy Horta
12 O'Clock High!
And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine;
A being breathing thoughtful breath,
A traveller between life and death;
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