per cent cut in the aircraft industry workforce.97 By the autumn of 1937, the Luftwaffe was talking about cutting its production plans by 25 per cent and the plant expansion programme by 66 per cent.98 And the results are evident in the statistics. Rather than expanding, as had been demanded in 1936, aircraft output was actually on a downward trend between April 1937 and the summer of 1938.99 The Luftwaffe carried through its re-equipment with modern combat aircraft, but only at the expense of a drastic reduction in the output of all other types of aircraft, especially of trainers.
