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National Socialist Flying Corps
DLV - German Air Sports League
The N.S.F.K. (National Socialist Flying Corp.) was created in January
of 1932, to promote interest in aviation. It was was soon absorbed
into the DLV Deutscher Luftsport Verband (German Air Sports League). On April
17
1937 the NSFK was reinstituted and the DLV was
disbanded.
The NSFK was mainly a voluntary organization with a small core of
paid
personnel.
The
NSFK was very closely associated with the Hitler Youth. Events
by the NSFK involved model building
with flying competitions of the completed projects, aeronautical educational
classes followed by building and flying actual
glider aircraft. Tthe NSFK was divided
into three sections - powered flight, gliders and
ballooning.
The NSFK owned sixteen gliding aviation schools and three
larger State Soaring Schools, the most famous being the
Wasserkuppe in the Rhon mountains where the Fliegerdenkmal
had been erected as a memorial to Germany's WWI fliers.
When Nazi Germany formed
the Luftwaffe, many
NSFK members transferred. As all such prior NSFK members were also
Nazi Party members; this gave the new Luftwaffe a strong Nazi ideological
base in contrast to the other branches of the German military, who
were comprised of "Old Guard" officers from the German aristocracy.
The National Socialist Flyers Corps continued to exist after the Luftwaffe
was founded, but to a much smaller degree. During World
War II, the NSFK mainly performed air
defense duties such as reserve anti-aircraft service. (above
info from from Clint Daniel and Wikipedia)