Draft:Luftwaffe Memorial
Ehrenmal der Luftwaffe | |
 Front of the memorial | |
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| 51°24′47″N 11°06′35″E / 51.41306°N 11.10972°E | |
| Location | Near the Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, Germany |
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| Designer | Ernst Zinsser |
| Beginning date | 1957 |
| Completion date | 1966 |
| Dedicated to | Dead of the German air forces who fell both in war and peacetime. |
The Air Force and Aviation Memorial (German: Ehrenmal der Luftwaffe und der Luftfahrt) also known as the Luftwaffe Memorial (German: Ehrenmal der Luftwaffe) is the central memorial for the modern German Air Force. Built between 1957 and 1966 with donations from then current and former members of the German air forces and other private individuals, It is dedicated to the dead of the German air forces who fell both in war and peacetime.
It is one of three Memorials of the Armed Forces (Ehrenmale der Teilstreitkräfte) for each branch of the Bundeswehr, the others being the Laboe Naval Memorial near Kiel and the German Army Memorial at the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in Koblenz.