Luftwaffe
About Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the Luftstreitkräfte of the Imperial Army and the Marine-Fliegerabteilung of the Imperial Navy, had been disbanded in May 1920 in accordance with the terms of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, which banned Germany from having any air force.
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If the Luftwaffe were chasing them or trying to shoot them down, if the Luftwaffe flew at 90 miles an hour they would stall, because their planes were too good to catch.
from 587: No Such Thing As Chris Nibble, 2025-06-12 at 00:09:43 · read transcript
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Basically, for anyone who doesn't know, we're talking about the Spitfire, the Super Marine Spitfire's legendary plane of the Second World War, a big thing in Britain, a big kind of national myth item in Britain, the Spitfire. There was a factory in Southampton which made, I think, most of the Spitfires, and it was bombed in 1940 by the Luftwaffe, and it was not just bombed, it was flattened, and this was a disaster.
483: No Such Thing As Rivets On A Tombstone, 2023-06-16 · listen
Oh yeah, what are you going to do in the afternoon? That kind of thing. Some of them kind of still funny, I think. When the RAF is in the skies, the Germans take cover, when the Luftwaffe is in the sky, the Allies take cover. When the US Air Force is in the skies, everyone takes cover. Which, you know, kind of still applies. Nazis banned apes from making the Hitler salute.
No Such Thing As A Funny Nazi, 2014-05-30 · listen
No, he was treated with a lot of respect by the Germans who captured him because there were rules about that. He was in a prisoner of war camp. Goering, who was the head of the Luftwaffe, gave special permission for an artificial leg, a spare leg to be parachuted into his prisoner of war camp. Amazing. I think what happened was, though, he kept trying to escape, and so they confiscated his prosthetic in the end.
No Such Thing As Rivets On A Tombstone, 2023-06-15 · listen
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