German Luftwaffe

For a long time the NS leadership has been pressing ahead ever more intensely with a secret rearmament of the Reich. On 2 February 1935 Adolf Hitler publicly acknowledges the existence of a German air force (Luftwaffe) – a clear violation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles which prohibited Germany from having fighter planes.

© Panzerwaffe German Air Force in the thirties: a Junkers Ju 87, the so called „Stukas“ (abbreviation for „Sturzkampfflugzeug“ i.e. dive fighter) - designed for the blitzkrieg