Luetzow wrote in his diary, “The omnipresent, primitive anti-Semitism in the Reich pisses me off.”3 Luetzow became conflicted. He had been raised in a Prussian military family. His father was an admiral and had taught him that a professional soldier should separate himself from politics. So Luetzow continued to fly and fight until June 1942, when a dark event on the Eastern Front led to the end of his combat career.
