Defense of the Reich (German language: Reichsverteidigung) refers to the defensive aerial battles fought by the Luftwaffe over German occupied Europe and Nazi Germany itself during World War II. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. ( German 'luftvafe is a generic German term for an Air force. German–occupied Europe refers to the countries of Europe which were occupied by the Military forces of Nazi Germany at various times during Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The daylight air struggles over Germany during World War II involved thousands of aircraft, dozens of units, and hundreds of aerial engagements to counter the Allied strategic bombing campaign. Strategic bombing is a Military strategy used in a Total war with the goal of defeating an enemy nation-state by destroying its economic ability to wage war rather