Luftwaffe

[looft-vahf-uh]

noun

German.

1. air force.

Luftwaffe

/ ˈlʊftvafə /

noun

1. the German Air Force

Luftwaffe

1. The German air force in World War II. (See blitzkrieg and Battle of Britain.)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Luftwaffe¹

C20: German, literally: air weapon

Example Sentences

The blitz by Germany’s Luftwaffe took more than 43,500 civilian lives in Britain.

From Salon

At 21, he was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain, a three-month period when air force personnel defended the skies against a large-scale assault by the German air force, the Luftwaffe.

From BBC

It was a cause of acute embarrassment for Berlin given that a brigadier general in the Luftwaffe appeared to allow spies into the secure call by dialling in on an insecure line.

From BBC

This kind of siren, so strongly associated in Britain with World War Two, is actually more than a century old, and has been used for all kinds of emergencies - not just Luftwaffe bombing raids.

From BBC

The mosquitos, as I remember, were as vicious as the Luftwaffe.

From Los Angeles Times