Ministry of Aviation

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An aviation ministry is a ministry that deals with the establishment or coordination of a state's aviation . Its responsibilities can relate to military aviation as well as civil aviation .

There were independent aviation ministries mainly in the interwar period and during the Second World War , including the British Air Ministry (1918–1964), later in Great Britain also the Ministry of Aviation (1959–1967), in Italy the Ministero dell'aeronautica , in France the Ministère de l'Air (1928–1947) and, in National Socialist Germany, the Reich Aviation Ministry (1933–1945).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias Rieger: "German rebirth" by a "chorus of vengeance". Aviation and National Socialism. In: Project “Officials of National Socialist Reich Ministries”. History Seminar of the University of Heidelberg, December 7, 2018, accessed on March 25, 2020 .