What was the strategic value of giving the luftwaffe a panzer division?

What was the strategic value of giving the luftwaffe a panzer division?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Wasn't it just a result of political power game moronation?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They fought under Army command. They were formed out of the larger Hermann Görikg division hence the name.

      No. Just practicalities.

      SS were just the kommissars that hanged around the more normal units and were tasked with keeping everyone in line, in practice they were just the moron suicide squad that performed worse in every way

      All of this is wrong.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah it was political military branch fighting bullshit.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Goering was bored so they gave him something to command after the Luftwaffe got annihilated by 1942

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Germany had some weird units.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    For me, it's SS-Fallschirmjägerbataillon 500.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >SS insignia
      >Wehrmacht camo
      >Luftwaffe eagle and helmet
      SOWL

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    SS were just the kommissars that hanged around the more normal units and were tasked with keeping everyone in line, in practice they were just the moron suicide squad that performed worse in every way

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >SS were just the kommissars
      SS were just MP. their job wasn't keeping normal units in line but rather enforcing german occupation and law. if they were nearby or had nothing to do they could get sent into actual combat but mostly they just killed civilans and sometimes when they actually wanted to not be a waste of resources they might engage some partisans but even then they often needed wehrmacht support because they couldn't fight someone who actually shoots back.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Are you a moron or a Vatnik?

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Same value as the Imperial Japanese Army having their own aircraft carriers

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Tiger airdrop raids, of course.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Goering- completely zooted on amphetamines one day- wanted tanks.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    insurance against getting stalin'd

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    He'd gone crazy by that point.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Naming units after important people was a thing with continental armies and even the brits.
    An airforce will have troops trained for ground combat to secure airbases and supply lines to and from those air bases. The idea was to take some of those troops and hands that weren't doing anything and putting them into a division for use by the army. And because they where taking those men from the airforce you name it after the head of the airforce to smooth over the transfer of men to effectively be in a different branch.
    It ending up as a panzer division had more to do with the shift in ratio between manpower/equipment in the Heer. And how the Germans wouldn't rotate divisions until they where so low in strength that they weren't combat effective anymore. So as those divisions where being brought up to strength they would often get now equipment/designations.
    Think of like taking air force security details, paratroopers ect and giving them to the marines but because the brass might feel slighted calling it the Doolittle division. And after taking a lot of losses they are sent back to the USA to take in more men only for the pencil pushers to make them mechanized because they had the vehicles laying around

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What did you do in the Air Force, dad?
    I drove a tank
    >wat

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