Dutch memorial getting build for German Wehrmacht hero

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Originally Posted by Mikhayl

The other book I talked about doesn't seem to have been translated in any language, I had a hard time finding it 3 years ago

Aye, that's a sad thing. I have a great book about an Luftwaffe ace named Günther Lützow (108 confirmed kills IIRC), who was in a big part on designing the new tactics for Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War (He flew in the Legion Kondor). But AFAIK, it is only available in Finnish, Sweden and German.

Sad, as pretty much every historian give full credit of the new tactics to Werner Mölders, nor does he usually get anykind of mention in the mutiny against Goering, it was Lützow who had the balls to speak out to Goering and so was "exiled" to (IIRC) Sicily to command the LW units there. And not to forget that he saved one officers life when Goering ordered the officer to be executed, as he had brought an camera crew with him to one of the channel front airfields and he wanted to see the squadron to take off and intercept the bombers they were warned of, the officer refused to give the order because the clouds were very low and the winds were rather strong. Lützow got a call from that particular airfield and immediatly drove there and gathered official weather reports on the way to show as proof to Goering that the conditions werent suitable to scramble the fighters. And all in all, he was very liked by the ones who served under him. He usually spend his time not in the comfy commander's building, but out in the fields with the crew. Great pilot and a great person, sadly he is a MIA to this day after taking off on his Me262 to intercept B26's late in the war. Chilling, that the book has a picture taken of Lützow walking with Galland towards their Me262's just before Lützow left to his last mission.