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 (<i>see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_of_the_Reich" class="extiw" title="w:Defence of the Reich">w:Defence of the Reich</a></i>). According to Boog, Horst; Krebs, Gerhard and Vogel, Detlef (2001). <i>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.</i> Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, pp. 216-217. <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-421-05507-6" title="Special:BookSources/3-421-05507-6">ISBN 3-421-05507-6</a> 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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