I mean… I don’t know if it’s true :P Which is kind of the point. I suspect it is, but in any case somebody thought it was true. Which means that, after a half-century of West Point Wehraboos drooling like idiots at the prospect of getting to stage their off-Broadway Panzer Leader revival in the Fulda Gap, people are remembering how absolutely fucking clown shoes the Nazis were at basically everything outside their specific penchant for mass murder.
I’m cool with that. Which is to say that I do like the lines of the Bf 110, but I’d also be very on board if we could pivot to at least a 1:1 ratio of “lovingly rendered watercolor paintings of Nazi military hardware” to Fun Facts like today’s bonus trivia which is that when the US Navy captured a couple Blohm & Voss BV 222s, in half an hour of test flying the engines caught fire four times so they gave up and sank them as naval gunnery targets.
In exchange I give you the Latécoère 521, which could carry 72 people in luxury and which the French appear to have designed on the principle that, well, boats have superstructures and flying boats should be no exception. I find it charming >.>