Luftwaffe personnel and Nazi-party membership

[Dénes Bernád]

In the last issue of Luftwaffe im Focus, there is a photo of a Lw pilot wearing an NSDAP pin. The text says that this (i.e., membership in the Nazi Party) was rare among Luftwaffe airmen and was actually frown upon by the other members. This detail is seldom spelled out in the literature, where often the Luftwaffe personnel is being referred to as 'Nazi pilots'.