Command of the West Air Defense Zone

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The command of the West Air Defense Zone was a department of the German Air Force during the Second World War at corps level . It was set up on June 1, 1938 as an agency of the Reich Aviation Ministry . The Hermann Göring office was subordinate to it . On October 1, 1939, the agency was wound up and transformed into the air defense zone inspection staff . The only commanding general was Lieutenant General and later General der Flieger Karl Kitzinger , based in Berlin .

The service mandate of the agency was the planning and the construction of the air defense zone west as well as the operational command of the local flak units. For this purpose, the agency was dependent on close cooperation with the Army High Command , the leader of the Reich Labor Service and the General Inspector for German Roads, Fritz Todt .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl-Heinz Hummel: The German flak cartillery 1935-1945. Your major formations and regiments . VDM, Zweibrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-86619-048-1 , p. 39-40 .