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Erhard Milch was a German field marshal and war criminal who oversaw the development of the Luftwaffe as part of the re-armament of Nazi Germany following World War I. Milch's father was Jewish but this fact was hidden by Hermann Göring. 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 and sentenced to life imprisonment; he was released in 1954.

✵ 30. March 1892 – 25. January 1972
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Famous Erhard Milch Quotes

“Let them try me. I shall have plenty to say about the Allies. I have some very good friends among the Americans and English, and the French industrialists, too. I have done nothing of which I am ashamed.”

Erhard Milch

To Leon Goldensohn, March 13, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

“That Germany beat these countries was due to better planning and not better preparedness.”

Erhard Milch

To Leon Goldensohn, March 13, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

“There is no reason to believe that Milch was not absolutely sincere in his idealistic belief in Imperial Germany. Its destruction, however, caused a fundamental change in him: idealism in Erhard Milch was extinguished forever. From this period on, Milch became more and more the slave of his own ruthless ambition.”

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Samuel W. Mitcham, "Eagles of the Third Reich," 2007

“It was true enough, he did not appear ashamed — merely worried about his own immunity from trial as a war criminal.”

Erhard Milch

Leon Goldensohn, March 13, 1946

“He is a shrewd, Napoleonic, short man, who is very affable, but as poisonous as hell with his affability.”

Erhard Milch

Leon Goldensohn, January 22, 1946

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