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Originally Posted by Falcon Jun
Okay, the Luftwaffe did have an advantage in that period because as have been pointed out, it was already on a war footing while its rivals were not.
Historically, war is a series of action then reaction. The Luftwaffe had the advantage of initiating the action but failed in due course to answer the Allied and Russian's reaction. Had the Luftwaffe been able to keep up with the war's pace, then maybe something else might have happened.
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That is good theory, but in practice or in this case, ww2, the Germans could never hope to keep up with the industrial demands put onto them by their armed forces, everywhere was lacking, all the time there was never enough. But in terms of the Luftwaffe, there were not enough planes to hope to take on the Soviet, American, British, French, all the low countries, commonwealth and other support countries after 1944, they need to many planes and not enough were being built to out do the amount lost to combat, mechanical problems and weather.