6/22/2023 0 Comments Phoenix Triumphant by E.R. HootonFor these writers the Luftwaffe was a strategic force, although its value in that regard was within the narrow context of a war fought in central or western Europe. The newer school of thought on the Luftwaffe, spearheaded by the likes of Horst Boog ( Boog 1982), Klaus Maier ( Maier 1985, cited under Anthologies), Williamson Murray ( Murray 1985), and James Corum ( Corum 1997), takes a more nuanced view. The older one, often fueled by memoirs or studies by captured German officers such as Paul Deichmann ( Deichmann 1968), regards the Luftwaffe as a service that was primarily an auxiliary to the army. The literature of the German Luftwaffe of World War II has generated two broad schools of thought. As noted in the Introduction, the German Luftstreitkräfte of World War I has not garnered a great deal of attention, outside of older works in German or reprints of older works ( Hoeppner 1994).
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