5.+Luftwaffe

John Gaeta Blk.2 10-20-08  Klaus Schwarzenegger **Birth:** 12-22-1912 **Incident:** 9-1-1939 **Interests:** Hunting, hiking, swimming, and fishing. He was raised on the outskirts of the city of Berlin as a child. Father died in the First World War at the age of 39 in battle. He came from a family of 13 brothers and 10 sisters that worked on their family farm. He joined the Nazi party when he was 25. It was the early morning of September-1-1939 when I had to invade Poland in aircraft and drop bombs over Poland. Hitler’s plan was to have me and other Luftwaffe fly over Poland and drop bombs to make it easy and clear for tanks and German soldiers to take Poland by surprise and move in on the ground; Hitler called this strategy the //Blitzkrieg. //The Nazi Luftwaffe was viewed as "Honorable Knights of the Air"(elk.net). First we bombed the center of the city with three waves of bombers dropping more than 70 tons of bombs. Inside the aircraft I couldn’t see any of the damage that I did but I knew that I killed a lot of innocent people and Polish soldiers. By the end of the month, Poland had ceased to exist- and World War II had begun (Danzer, Kreiger, Wilson, Woloch, 539) Works Cited Danzer, Gerald A., et al. __The Americans__. Boston: McDougal Littell. 2003. http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/pol39/pol39.htm
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