Erhard Milch

Erhard Milch was a German field marshal who oversaw the development of the Luftwaffe as part of the rearmament of Nazi Germany following World War I. During World War II, he was in charge of aircraft production his ineffective management resulted in the decline of the German air force and its loss of air superiority as the war progressed. He was convicted of war crimes during the Milch Trial held before the U.S. military court in 1947.

Milch was born in Wilhelmshaven, the son of Anton Milch, a Jewish pharmacist who served in the Kaiserliche Marine, the Imperial German Navy, and Clara Milch, ne Vetter. Due to his Jewish ancestry, according to the Nazi Nuremberg Laws of 1935, he was considered as a Jewish Mischling of the first degree. At Grings urging, Adolf Hitler gave Milch a German Blood Certificate and was later reclassified as an honorary Aryan and was one of the few officers in the German high command of Jewish ancestry.

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