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Of course, each issue also had aviation related advertising from companies like IG Farben, Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke, Messerschmitt, Telefunken, AEG, Junkers, Blohm & Voss, Focke-Wulf, Henschel, Arado, Zeiss-Ikon, Carl Walther, Askania-Werke, Oigee, BMW airplane engines, Siemens, Bosch, and so on.

Every 1940 issue of Deutsche Luftwacht Ausgabe Luftwissen contains sophisticated in-depth photo reports on subjects such as the 25th anniversary of Dornier airplanes, armaments on military airplanes of German enemies, the goals of Junkers airplane development, nose wheels on American aircraft, Belgian propellor research, flying in formation, victory in Norway, Red Cross airplanes, working in the airplane industry, Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers), the Luftwaffe during the invasion in the west, technical information on the Fieseler Storch, the historic state visit of Benito Mussolini to Adolf Hitler in June 1940, the Italian Air Force and the friendly-fire death of Italy's Marshal of the Air Force and Commander in Chief of Italian North Africa, Italo Balbo at Tobruk, promotions for the leadership of the Luftwaffe, inside the Dornier factory, British and French military airplanes, American airplane engines, the air war over London (summer & fall including Coventry), the Dornier Do 18, etc., etc.

This heavy book contains ALL the 1940 monthly issues of the superb, rare Nazi German aviation magazine Deutsche Luftwacht Ausgabe LUFTWISSEN (German Aviation Review Air Knowledge) German bound in durable hard covers. The 8-½ x 11-¾ inch book has over 450 pages stuffed full of what was then the very latest in aviation news, airplanes, aeronautical research in the year 1940, complete with fantastic period aviation related advertising, and it is fully indexed.

Deutsche Luftwacht Luftwissen magazine was published in association with the world-renowned Lilienthal Association for Aviation Research in Berlin by W.S. Mittler & Sohn in Berlin. This is the sister-publication of the magazine Deutsche Luftwacht LUFTWEHR. The price of each issue in Germany was RM 1.00 (40 US cents) and RM1.50 (60 US cents) for subscribers outside Nazi Germany.

Each of these issues of Deutsche Luftwacht LUFTWISSEN also contain an overview of aviation in Nazi Germany in the year 1939, the recipients of the Lilienthal Association for Aviation Research award, the announcement of the death of famous test pilot Dipl.-Ing. Alfred Henke, the 70th birthday of Dr. Krupp, German flying ace Helmut Wick missing in action, tidbits of German and international aviation news, tables with research results, technical illustrations, research notes and photos, as well as aviation book reviews (for example for Handbuch der Luftfahrt 1939, Adler-Kalender 1941 and Luftwaffe schlägt zu!) and job opportunities in the German aviation industry for skilled workers.

World War II had already started when these magazines were published and the Luftwaffe had scored important victories during the Wehrmacht invasion of Poland and Holland, Belgium and France, and Hermann Göring was in charge of all things connected with aviation in Nazi Germany.

These magazines also contain superb photo content including the Messerschmitt 'JAGUAR', German Army and Air Force in Norway (including Generaloberst Milch), Heinkel He-113, a Nazi paratrooper in full gear, Rotterdam in ruins, Ju-87 in action, May 1940 foreign military airplane crashes, the grave of Otto Lilienthal, Hitler and Mussolini in Munich, Nazi Aviation Minster Göring and Army General von Brauchitsch at the armistice at Compiègne, the Luftwaffe above Dunkirk, General der Flieger Udet, Arado airplanes, the new Fw 187, a female airplane mechanic ("working for victory over England"), He-111 bombing the docks in London, Reichsmarschall des Großdeutschen Reich Hermann Goering, British Sperrballone, bombing of southern England, Luftwaffe pilot life vests, mechanics working on a Me 110, FLAK in action, etc., etc. - far too many to mention.

The covers of Luftwissen magazine always have large interesting photos of subjects like the Fieseler Storch, Nazi gliders, famous Nazi aviation personalities, Luftwaffe pilots in action, etc.

These 1940 issues of Deutsche Luftwacht Ausgabe Luftwissen were bound when they were near-new and in very good condition. The front flyleaf has the stamp of Bücherei Dr. Othmar Helwig, apparently the library of the company that had these rare Nazi aviation magazines bound. Priceless and irreplaceable historical World War II aviation photographic content!