Question: When did the country German was aligned with by the leader of the Luftwaffe become an Ally in WW2?

Following the Allied victory in the Second World War, Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain. The countries in Southeastern Europe were dominated by the Soviet Union and became communist states. The major non-communist Southern European countries joined a US-led military alliance (NATO) and formed the European Economic Community amongst themselves. The countries in the Soviet sphere of influence joined the military alliance known as the Warsaw Pact and the economic bloc called Comecon. The Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, and along with Mussolini's Italy sought to gain control of the continent by the Second World War. Yugoslavia was neutal. <SEP> within the luftwaffe, there was a more muted view of strategic bombing. the okl did not oppose the strategic bombardment of enemy industries and or cities, and believed it could greatly affect the balance of power on the battlefield in germany's favour by disrupting production and damaging civilian morale, but they did not believe that air power alone could be decisive. contrary to popular belief, the luftwaffe did not have a systematic policy of what became known as "terror bombing". evidence suggests that the luftwaffe did not adopt an official bombing policy in which civilians became the primary target until 1942. <SEP> The participation of Italy in the Second World War was characterized by a complex framework of ideology, politics, and diplomacy, while its military actions were often heavily influenced by external factors. The imperial ambitions of the Fascist regime, which aspired to restore the Roman Empire in North Africa and the Mediterranean (the Mare Nostrum, or the Italian Empire), were partially met with the annexation of Albania and the Province of Ljubljana, and the occupation of British Somaliland and other territories, but ultimately collapsed after defeats in the East and North African campaigns. Italy surrendered to the Allies at the end of the Italian Campaign. The northern half of the country was occupied by Germans with the fascists help and made a collaborationist puppet state (with more than 600,000 soldiers), while the south was governed by monarchist and liberal forces, which fought for the Allied cause as the Italian Co-Belligerent Army (at its height numbering more than 50,000 men), helped by circa 350,000 partisans of disparate political ideologies that operated all over Italy. In July 1943, following the Allied invasion of Sicily, Benito Mussolini was arrested by order of King Victor Emmanuel III, provoking a civil war. <SEP> the foundation for the influential position held by germany today was laid during the wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) of the 1950s when west germany rose from the enormous destruction wrought by world war ii to become the world's third - largest economy. the first chancellor konrad adenauer, who remained in office until 1963, had worked for a full alignment with nato rather than neutrality. he not only secured a membership in nato but was also a proponent of agreements that developed into the present - day european union. when the g6 was established in 1975, there was no question whether the federal republic of germany would be a member as well. <SEP> The bombing failed to demoralise the British into surrender or significantly damage the war economy. The eight months of bombing never seriously hampered British production and the war industries continued to operate and expand. The Blitz was only authorised when the Luftwaffe had failed to meet preconditions for a 1940 launch of Operation Sea Lion, the provisionally planned German invasion of Britain. In comparison to the later Allied bombing campaign against Germany, the Blitz resulted in relatively few casualties; the British bombing of Hamburg in July 1943 inflicted some 42,000 civilian deaths, about the same as the entire Blitz. By May 1941 the threat of an invasion of Britain had passed, and Hitler's attention had turned to Operation Barbarossa in the East.