List of flags of the Luftwaffe (1933–45)

This article shows a list of flags of the Luftwaffe (1933-1945) which were used in the years between 1933 and 1945 by the German Luftwaffe.

Supreme Commander of the Luftwaffe
Since the beginning of the German Luftwaffe, Hermann Göring was its designated head. In 1933 he was called Reichsminister der Luftfahrt (Reich Minister for Aviation), when on February 26, 1935, he was instituted as Commander-in-Chief of the German Luftwaffe. He held this title until April 1945, when he was banned by Adolf Hitler and replaced by Robert Ritter von Greim.

Literature

 * Flaggenbuch, Bearbeitet und herausgegeben vom Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine, Berlin 1939, Reichsdruckerei, M.Dv.Nr.377
 * Brian Leigh Davis: Flags & Standards of the Third Reich, London 1975, ISBN 0356048799