Jagdwaffe vs. 332d Fighter Group

[Nick Beale]

And not all Germans of the period, even serving officers, were obsessed with race, this is simplistic, black-and-white thinking

The people they were working for—the German government of the time—were absolutely obsessed with race and recognising that is neither "modern perceptions" nor "simplistic". The NSDAP had mass support: it won 17 million votes in the election of March 1933 and according to Wikipedia: "When it came to power in 1933, the Nazi Party had over 2 million members. In 1939, the membership total rose to 5.3 million … by 1945 [it] reached its peak of 8 million". NSDAP ideology had been the norm in Germany during the childhood and adolescence of most wartime Luftwaffe aircrew. Someone reaching military age from 1939 onward had almost certainly been a member, successively, of the Jungvolk, Hitler Youth and Labour Service. This suggests to me that it would hardly be surprising if a great many Luftwaffe personnel shared the party's outlook, if only because they had so little experience of anything else.