Luftwaffe Magazine 1941 - heavily illustrated

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RARE LUFTWAFFE (GERMAN AIR FORCE) MAGAZINE

THE SPECIAL LUFTWAFFE ISSUE OF
THE HUGE 10-1/2 X 15 INCH
ILLUSTRIRTE ZEITUNG
FOR MARCH 1941

This is a good, complete example of the special Die Deutsche Luftwaffe (the German Air Force) issue of the Illustrirte Zeitung magazine dated 20 March 1941. It is a big, heavy 10-1/2 x 15 inch, 136 page very, very heavily illustrated (many illustrations in color) high quality, very influential magazine that was published in Berlin to provide the official Nazi government version of foreign and diplomatic news.

Once each year in spring an entire issue was devoted to articles, pictures and advertising related to the German Luftwaffe. This is the Luftwaffe issue for 1941, and is perhaps the very best record of all things related to aviation in Nazi Germany in 1941.

There are full-page, full-color ads from the firms Messerschmitt, Reichswerke Hermann Göring, Henschel, Dickow, Zeiss-Ikon, Arado, Heinkel, Ford, Gothaer Waggonfabrik. There are full-page black & white ads from Mercedes-Benz, Focke-Wulf, Zeiss, Pittler, Dornier-Werke, Erla, Hirth, Siebel, Steyr, Avia, Gerhard Fieseler Werke, IG Farben Industrie, Junkers, VDM., etc.

There are smaller ads for firms like Rieker Shoes, OAGEE, Reflex Sights, Plath dead reckoning computers, Autoflug parachutes, Robot camera, Hensoldt binoculars, Leica, Moritz Mädler luggage, Dräger Werk, Klemm, Bosch, Ago, Blohm & Voss, Reichslotterie, Reichspost, Mauser, Plexiglas, Fuess instruments, etc.

Articles in the magazine cover subjects such as deployment of the air force in modern combat, Luftflotte 4, aircraft weapons, building the Stuka, aircraft recognition, balloon defenses, aerial photography, flying boats, paratroopers, low level flight, a German Feldfliegerhorst, Luftwaffe badges by Heinrich Doehle, organization of the German Air Force, 100 planes to England (with a huge fold-out painting, the Reichsmarschall visits the Western Front, reconnaissance over England, etc., etc.

If the Luftwaffe is anywhere near the center of your interest, this magazine is indispensable. Good condition.

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