Editing Luftwaffe (section)

===Personnel===
{{See also|Luftwaffe personnel structure|Ranks and insignia of the Luftwaffe (1935–1945)}}
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|+Luftwaffe strength during the fall of 1941<ref name="Zentner">{{harvnb|Zentner|1963|p=325}}</ref>
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! align="left" width="150" | Forces
! align="left" width="50" | Personnel strength
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| Flying units 
|style="text-align: right;"| 500,000
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| Anti-aircraft units 
|style="text-align: right;"| 500,000
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| Air signal units 
|style="text-align: right;"| 250,000
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| Construction units 
|style="text-align: right;"| 150,000
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| {{lang|de|[[Landsturm]]}} (militia) units 
|style="text-align: right;"| 36,000
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The peacetime strength of the Luftwaffe in the spring of 1939 was 370,000 men. After mobilisation in 1939 almost 900,000 men served, and just before [[Operation Barbarossa]] in 1941 personnel strength had reached 1.5 million men.<ref name="Zentner" /> The Luftwaffe reached its largest personnel strength during the period November 1943 to June 1944, with almost three million men and women in uniform; 1.7 million of these were male soldiers, 1 million male {{lang|de|[[Ranks and insignia of the German Army (1935–1945)#Armed Forces officials (Wehrmachtbeamte)|Wehrmachtsbeamte]]}} and civilian employees, and almost 300,000 female and male auxiliaries ({{lang|de|[[Luftwaffenhelfer]]}}).<ref>{{harvnb|Richhardt|2002|p=258}}</ref> In October 1944, the anti-aircraft units had 600,000 soldiers and 530,000 auxiliaries, including 60,000 male members of the {{lang|de|[[Reich Labour Service|Reichsarbeitsdienst]]}}, 50,000 {{lang|de|Luftwaffenhelfer}} (males age 15–17), 80,000 {{lang|de|Flakwehrmänner}} (males above military age) and {{lang|de|Flak-V-soldaten}} (males unfit for military service), and 160,000 female {{lang|de|Flakwaffenhelferinnen}} and {{lang|de|RAD-Maiden}}, as well as 160,000 foreign personnel ([[Hiwi (volunteer)|Hiwis]]).<ref>[http://zweiter-weltkrieg-lexikon.de/geschuetze-/13-flugabwehrkanonen-flak/1058-der-einsatz-von-behelfspersonal-bei-der-flak Der Einsatz von Behelfspersonal bei der Flak] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921202651/http://zweiter-weltkrieg-lexikon.de/geschuetze-/13-flugabwehrkanonen-flak/1058-der-einsatz-von-behelfspersonal-bei-der-flak |date=21 September 2016}} Retrieved 15 September 2016.</ref><ref>[http://www.airpower.at/news03/0813_luftkrieg_ostmark/luftwaffe.htm Die Deutsche Luftwaffe in der Ostmark] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426010724/http://www.airpower.at/news03/0813_luftkrieg_ostmark/luftwaffe.htm |date=26 April 2017}} Retrieved 15 September 2016.</ref>