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Luftwaffe über dem Feind was written by Generalmajor der Luftwaffe Elard (Baron) von Löwenstern. The author was a World War I veteran and after 1933 worked at the Berlin Reichsluftfahrtministerium of Hermann Goering, involved in the build-up of the Luftwaffe. During the 1930s he was promoted and had several different functions in the General Staff of the Nazi Air Force. He was the Commander of several Nazi airbases in 1939 and 1940 and served in several staff positions until retirement on 31 March 1945.

Von Löwenstern became a Soviet POW in May of 1945 and died on 21 December 1945 at Speziallager 3 Hohenschönhausen. This was a special transit camp set up by the Soviet Occupying Forces (NKWD) in a former kitchen building of the NSV on Genslerstrasse 66 in Berlin, for members of the Nazi Party, police and Gestapo as well as administrative personnel of the NSDAP. Catastrophic hygienic circumstances caused the death of more than 1000 people, and 59 year old Von Löwenstern was one of them.

Oberst Baron von Löwenstern wrote several books on aviation and Luftwaffe über dem Feind (The Air Force Above The Enemy) was his last, published by Wilhelm Limpert Verlag of Berlin in 1941. It tells the story of heroic and victorious Luftwaffe action against the enemy, from Scotland to North Africa, from the Suez Canal to the Greek island of Crete.

Interspersed in the text are 12 unnumbered glossy photo pages with several pictures from Von Löwenstern’s archive. They include aerial photos as well as pictures Generaloberst von Bock in Paris, and several other Luftwaffe generals.

This 5-½ x 8 inch, 268-page hardcover book comes with its original dust jacket which was designed by well-known artist (Panzergrenadier) Walter Gotschke of Stuttgart.

In very good used condition, no odor.