Luftwaffe

American  

[looft-vahf-uh] / ˈlʊftˌvɑf ə /

noun

German.

1. air force.

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Luftwaffe British  

/ ˈlʊftvafə /

noun

1. the German Air Force

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Luftwaffe Cultural  

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

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Etymology

Origin of Luftwaffe

C20: German, literally: air weapon

Example Sentences

Germany this time is personified by a defendant: Hermann Göring, head of the Luftwaffe and second only to the Führer in the military command.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

But whoever it was that picked up an insecure line in a Singapore hotel room late one February night, this Luftwaffe leak has been damaging for Germany.

From BBC