The aircraft in this list include prototype versions of aircraft used by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and unfinished wartime experimental programmes.
After the surrender of Nazi Germany several of the secret or unfinished projects of German military aircraft gained wide publicity.
Also certain postwar planes such as the Bell X-5, F-86 Sabre or the MiG-15 were deemed to have been based on the pioneering work of World War II German aircraft designers.
[1][2][3] German aircraft manufacturers such as Henschel in Kassel had their archives destroyed in the course of the Allied bombing of the Third Reich at the end of World War II.
(Focke-Achgelis & Co. GmbH) (Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH) ( Gothaer Waggonfabrik) (Ernst Heinkel A.G.) (Henschel Flugzeugwerke A.G.) (Ulrich Hütter and Wolfgang Hütter) (Junkers Flugzeug-Werke A.G.)