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

His coverage of the Luftwaffe bombings and of a nation ever more tightening its belt is memorable and, in places, quite lovely and moving.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We thought it would be like the blitz on London, I suppose, when the Luftwaffe came.”

From Literature

We’ve even learned how to narrow down which rotors the Luftwaffe network might be using that day, and in what order.

From Literature

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