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Werner Baumbach
Werner Baumbach (27 December 1916 – 20 October 1953) was a bomber pilot in the German ''Luftwaffe'' during World War II and commander of the secret bomber wing Kampfgeschwader 200 (KG 200). He received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords (''Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern'') for the destruction of over of allied shipping.〔Berger 2000, p. 26.〕
==Career==
Born on 27 December 1916 in Cloppenburg, Baumbach entered the ''Luftwaffe'' in 1936 and after first training at the 2nd Air Warfare School (''Luftkriegsschule 2'') at Gatow, on the south-western outskirts of Berlin, was trained as a bomber pilot. He was one of the first pilots to fly the Junkers Ju 88 bomber and flew various bombing missions with Kampfgeschwader 30 (KG 30). On 19 April 1940 he bombed and damaged the French cruiser Émile Bertin for which he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class.〔 In 1942, Baumbach was removed from active pilot duty and started working on new bomber designs; among others, he helped design the composite bomber system ''Mistel''. In 1944, he was placed in command of the newly formed Kampfgeschwader 200 (KG 200) and was in charge of all ''Luftwaffe'' special missions. Baumbach was promoted to Oberstleutnant on 15 November 1944 and was tasked with leading the affairs of the ''General der Kampfflieger''.
After the war, Baumbach spent three years as a prisoner of war before he moved to Argentina where he worked as a test pilot. He died in a plane crash on 20 October 1953 while evaluating a British Lancaster bomber. He was interred in his hometown Cloppenburg.〔Schumann 2007, p. 19.〕
Baumbach released his memoirs, ''Zu spät: Aufstieg und Untergang der deutschen Luftwaffe'' (English title: "Broken Swastika"), in the late 1940s. The book demonstrates that even after Germany's defeat, Baumbach still believed to a very large extent in the National Socialist ideology. The fact that Baumbach's time as commander of KG 200 is not mentioned with a single word highlights the extreme secrecy of Germany's special missions program.
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