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Many commentaries on the invasion of France mention that Germany had made good their losses from the invasion of Poland and recovered all pilots from Polish POW camps.

There doesn't seem to be much more to it than that talked about.

So I do some digging in various sources about the Luftwaffe in the invasion of Poland.

I see 285 lost aircraft and 279 damaged aircraft but what got me wondering was the 224 Luftwaffe POWs. 150 of them were pilots. Would it have changed anything in the war if those POWs were killed. Perhaps Poland equates luftwaffe with bombing raids on civilians in Warsaw and equates bombing civilians with war criminal.

Would the execution of these Luftwaffe POWs have an effect on ww2. I would imagine that launching the battle of Britain may be considered more of a risk due to the loss of so many pilots. Although they could launch and lose a little earlier. I doubt it would have an effect on France.

Please lets not focus on the fact that the mass murder of Polish civilians would be likely to begin earlier.
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