Luftwaffe Flak and Field Divisions 1939-1945: Rare by Hans Seidler

By Hans Seidler

From the outset of WW2, Gõring’s Luftwaffe Flak devices observed vast combating with their 2cm, 3.7cm and lethal 8.8cm anti-aircraft weapons. by the point of Hitler’s invasion of Russia, Luftwaffe flooring forces have been increased and have been getting used in either the military help and air roles.

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83 They are above all hotbeds of blood-mixing and bastardization, usually ensuring the degeneration of the race and resulting in that purulent herd in which the maggots of the international Jewish community flourish and cause the ultimate decay of the people. But it is precisely in this way that a decline is introduced, because now the inner strength of such a people disappears quickly, and all racial, moral, and ethical qualities are destroyed; ideals are lost, thus eliminating in the end the prerequisite needed in order for a people to take on the final consequences in the struggle for the world market.

27 [Chapter III] [Race, Conflict, and Power] I [want] would like immediately at this point take issue with the bourgeois view that the concept of power usually means only a nation’s supply of weapons, and to a limited degree perhaps also the army as an organization. If the view of these people were correct—if a people’s power really does lie in its store of weapons and its army— then a people that lost its army and weapons, through whatever circumstances, would be finished forever. But these bourgeois politicians hardly believe that themselves.

Domestic] Foreign policy is the art of securing for a people the necessary quantity and quality of Lebensraum. Domestic policy is the art of preserving the [strength content] commitment of strength—in terms of the people’s racial quality and numbers—necessary to do this. 27 [Chapter III] [Race, Conflict, and Power] I [want] would like immediately at this point take issue with the bourgeois view that the concept of power usually means only a nation’s supply of weapons, and to a limited degree perhaps also the army as an organization.

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