The Lutwaffe in WWII
To a greater degree than ever befo
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To a greater degree than ever before, World War II was an air war. World War I had been the first to be fought with airplanes, largely in the famous dogfights between competing air units, while World War II included this element as well as bombing raids conducted far from home base by German planes over Great Britain and other distant regions, and later by the V-2 rockets that were also directed at that island nation. The German Luftwaffe was a key element in the Nazi intention of conquering much of Europe beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the war in the 1940s. The Luftwaffe was a formidable air power. It had its origins in World War I, but after that war, the Treaty of Versailles had forced the Luftwaffe into a clandestine existence until 1935, when the Nazi propaganda machine extolled the virtues of this unit. By 1939, Herman Goering had created an officer corps capable of terrorizing the other nations of Europe. The Luftwaffe was key in the early victories of the Third Reich and would continue to be important throughout the war, but it would be gutted by defeat and left even more ineffective by this war than it had been by the last. The airplane became a weapon first in World War I during the early months of the war. In spite of the literature to the contrary, the airplane contributed little to the outcome of that war, though the use of the airplane gave rise to the myth of the flying "ace." At the time, the Germans did introduce terror b
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mbers only wanted to destroy the Renteria Bridge, considered a strategic target, but in fact the entire town was destroyed, with the exception of the bridge, which was still standing when Franco's troops arrived (Thomas and Witts 286). Actions such as this brought the involvement of Germany to the attention of the world and also increased fears of the power of the Luftwaffe. The Condor Legion continued to operate in the region and to shrink the perimeter around Bilbao. The Condor Legion then added a new wrinkle to its methods of war with carpet bombing (Mason 236).
WORLD WAR II
The Second World War actually began with Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, and Hitler used a staged incident as his excuse. The war started with an attack by the Luftwaffe on bridges over the Vistula River at Dirschau (Jablonski 21). Richtofen claimed that the methods he had used in Spain would be effective elsewhere, and while there were some in the high command who doubted this, he was allowed to create a special air division that would embody his ideas of tactical air power. His task in Poland was to punch holes in the Polish fortifications along the border so the army could enter, and a variety of planes made the attacks on airfields insid
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