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12th May 2010, 15:37

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Source for Luftwaffe Jagdwaffe joke?

“When an FW-190 crashes, they take the wreckage to Kurt Tank and he strengthens the parts that failed. When a Bf-109 crashes, they take the wreckage to Willi Messerschmitt and he lightens the parts that stayed together”.

I have seen this cited as a wartime joke, with variations, in a number of English-language sources. Does anyone know where it originated from or a German source?

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