Arming the Luftwaffe

[Dénes Bernád]

Richard, you're absolutely right. Aircraft were assembled by workers, production was organized by specialised institutions, and so on. Not to mention politics.
The same way, aircraft were flown by real men, who after exiting the cockpit (if returned from combat) had a full life, with many turns and tweaks worth of telling.

Yet, one must draw the line if he/she wants to focus on a specific detail, if he/she (hopes) to achieve something lasting. That's why I was primarily looking for the production figures side of the story and ordered the book solely based on its title and sub-title.

OT. With the risk of starting a flame war - as the very topic is sensitive and any attempt to touch it a different way usually causes heated debates and accusations of anti-this, anti-that - I must mention that the slave labour in the Soviet Union is not covered, by far, as detailed as the one in the IIIrd Reich (not to mention the Holocaust). This, in spite of the fact that slave labour was more common and work camps, with conditions as harsh as under the Nazi regime, were much more numerous in the USSR than in Hitler's Germany. And they lasted much longer, too. This generates a feeling of unbalanced/biased view of history.