Even when they were outnumbered and knew it was almost impossible to do what they were ordered to do specially after D-Day, when the allies started to control Europe's skies, this pilots fought bravely and shot down a lot of allied planes.
I think the need of surviving, the lack of resources...
Many of them scored a lot of victories against the Soviets, but this does not mean the soviets were bad pilots, at the beginning of the war maybe, but after Stalingrad, the soviet army and air forces were experiencied and were a match for the Lufwaffe.
In that time the Luftwaffe had lost...
But in the other side many german pilots were flying planes that were considered old (and many of them were) against allied fighters.
This planes were redisgined to match the newly and usually developed and fixed faster than the luftwaffe.
Even facing these problems many german pilots were a...
In some times this expropiated properties were used against the axis, like the planes or were used to support allied countries when selling, dismanteling or organizing ship convoys to cross the atlantic that were sunk by german u-boats.
In the American continent were cases where the populations of the axis countries that were living in "neutral" or allied countries were confined in concetration camps,and were bothered or attacked in public places.
In other places the governments expropiated axis' properties that were in those...
Almost any nation in that war committed crimes or actions that are considered not admitables.
Like the British bombing schedules. They started indiscriminated bombings over the civilian population over Germany and the occupied territories at the beginning of the war because it was difficult for...
I agree with lesofprimus
Marseille was a great pilot and he was rising his potential when he died.
If he had survived the war he surely would be the best pilot in Germany.
I voted for Galland and would also will vote for Nowotny because i think both of them were some of the best pilots germany had, also were skilled, intrepid, fearless and they designed tactics for the 262.
Also they were part of the most valuable Luftwaffe's squads.
They we honored by flying...
Another thing that we sometimes forget, is that Germany couldn't develop in an open way because of the Versailles Treaty, so they started looking for new strategies and techonlogies that will help them in a new war.
But they lacked of materials and manufacturing places to create and develop...