A map of Europe highlighting the scope of the campaign for the aerial defence of the Third Reich by the Luftwaffe against allied bombers during World War II (see w:Defence of the Reich). According to Boog, Horst; Krebs, Gerhard and Vogel, Detlef (2001). Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg. Band 7: Das Deutsche Reich in der Defensive: Strategischer Luftkrieg in Europa, Krieg im Westen und in Ostasien, 1943-1944/45. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, pp. 216-217. ISBN 3-421-05507-6 in 1944 the scope of such battle was extended to Germany, East Prussia, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, central eastern and north eastern France, Poland, Hungary and Lithuania.
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