Superb German Luftwaffe aviation videos, including videos on particular aircraft - Messerschmitt Bf109 & Bf110, Focke Wulf Fw190 and Junker Ju88 & Ju87 and pilots like Adolf Galland and Erich Hartmann. 

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The Story of Germany's Elite Fighter Aces.

Using archive interviews and colour footage of the aircraft, this programme depicts the successes and exploits of Germany's equivalent of men such as Douglas Bader, who in their fighting skills and bravery, boosted a nations morale. Including such men as Adolf Galland and Erich Hartmann, tow of the Luftwaffe's top scoring pilots with over 600 enemy kills between them.

Black & White/ Colour. Running time approx. 60 mins. Video Price £6.50  order code PEG1167

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From the ashes lit in the dog fights of the skies above the carnage of World War I, a phoenix would rise - the Luftwaffe of the Third Reich.

No ordinary airforce, the Luftwaffe was to become the handmaiden of Hitler's dream of conquest and a vital component of 'blitzkrieg' or 'lightning war'. However the glories won in Poland, Scandinavia, Holland, Belgium and finally France, as the Nazis marched, victorious, through Europe, were to turn sour.

The Führer's continual demands upon his airforce, as he fanatically pursued his 'Grand Design' forced the Luftwaffe into the role of workhorse, though incompetence, intrigue and greed amongst commanders made the task near impossible. Starved of new planes and pilots to fly them, stretched across two fronts in Europe and playing a vital role in North Africa, Göring's elite corps was fatally flawed.

This tragic story chronicles the initial brilliant success of the Luftwaffe in Europe, its structure and tactics and the inherent weaknesses that were to drag the phoenix once again to it's inescapable consummation within the fires of Berlin. The story is told using very rare footage only recently obtained from the eastern block and not seen in the west since the war.

At the end of 1934 - before the existence of the Luftwaffe had been officially declared, Germany had less than 600 front-line aircraft. By the outbreak of the Second World War, the number had risen to more than 3,500. Thirty percent of these were single-engined fighters and for the nest six years, one mall but rugged aeroplane would form the very backbone of the German fighter force - Messerschmitt Bf109. This legendary machine remained in continuous action from 1939 to 1945 and in doing so, it shot down twice as many aircraft as any other fighter in history.

Fighter Aircraft of World War Two - Messerschmitt BF 109

Fighter Aircraft of World War Two - Focke-Wulf FW190

Junkers Ju87

Nightfighters - Messerschmitt Bf110, Junkers Ju88, Heinkel He219, Dornier Do17