  
Luftwaffe Chief Hermann Goering’s Lament
The
following statements were made during the war crimes interrogation
shortly after the war by Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, long-time
chief of the Luftwaffe. He poisoned himself in his cell before
his death sentence for war crimes could be carried out.
“I knew first that the Luftwaffe was losing control of the air
when the American long-range fighters were able to escort the
bombers as far as Hanover. It was not long before they were getting
to Berlin. We then knew we must develop the jet planes. Our plan
for their early development was unsuccessful only because of your
bombing attacks.
“Allied attacks greatly affected our training program, too. For
instance, the attacks on oil retarded the training because our
new pilots couldn’t get sufficient training before they were put
into the air.
“I am convinced that the jet planes would have won the war for
us if we could have had only four or five months more time. Our
underground installations were ready. The factory at Kahla had
a capacity of 1,000 to 1,200 jet airplanes a month. Now with 5,000
to 6,000 jets, the outcome would have been quite different.
“We would have trained sufficient pilots for the jet planes despite
oil shortage, because we would have had underground factories
for oil, producing a sufficient quantity for the jets. The transition
to jets was very easy in training. The jet pilot output was always
ahead of the jet aircraft production...
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