The NSFK (Nationalsozialistisches Fliegerkorps) was a paramilitary
organisation that was founded in the early 1930s when a German
air force was prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles. The
NSFK directed military aviation training in gliders and private
aeroplanes. When the Luftwaffe was formed many NSFK members
transferred. But the organisation continued to exist after
the Luftwaffe was established, but to a much smaller scale.
Gliders were used through out World War II which were constructed
using the simplest of materials, Which allowed the Luftwaffe
to drop men and equipment behind enemy lines undetected.
The Warplanes of the Third Reich.
ISBN-10: 0385057822
German Aircraft of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0370000242
Hitler's Luftwaffe.
ISBN-10: 051718771X
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