Originally posted by nexus:
that´s not excatly right. there were two types pf LW troops:
1. the falschirmjäger that you mentioned. they were good till elite troops with good weapons and officers. but later in the war not anymore used in their primary role,instead as a good infantry troops.
2. the luftwaffe divisions which were colected by this fool h.goering who wants to give hitler a "present" from his luftwaffe as the war get´s worse for germany. they consist of airbase personal and such which were not used anymore in this role, they were of course not proper trained for infantry fighting and had no good weapons. so they had no good fighting rating. but the stupid german leaders as hitler,goering and others believed they could stand up to regular infantry...that was a big mistake as reality shows. the german front commanders did know that,but they had no other troops to fight with at the late stage of war. they must take what they get.
True and with the German method of making new divisions to replace demolished divisions instead of filling out the ranks of the division. The manpower in these divisions were lost to a real Infantry Division which could have trained them as useful troops.
And as always there is an exception to the rule the Herman Goring Division.
