The Final Hours: The Luftwaffe Plot Against Göring (repost)
The Final Hours: The Luftwaffe Plot Against Göring
Potomac Books Inc. | 2005-08-30 | ISBN: 1574888633 | 224 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB
Potomac Books Inc. | 2005-08-30 | ISBN: 1574888633 | 224 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB
Fighter ace Col. Johannes Steinhoff commanded an elite group of pilots trained to fly the first jet aircraft employed in combat, the famous Messerschmitt Me-262, at a time when Reich Marshal Hermann Göring, by then out of favor with Hitler for his failure to stop the Allied bombing raids, denounced his own pilots as cowards. After Göring refused to deploy the Me-262 as a fighter, the role for which it was designed, and instead ordered its use as a bomber, Steinhoff and other senior air leaders devised a plot to depose Göring from his command of the Luftwaffe in the futile hope of staving off final defeat in the air.