<Li> Albert Kesselring, Commander of Luftflotte 2 (Air Fleet 2) </Li> <Li> Erhard Milch, Inspector General of the Luftwaffe </Li> <Li> Hugo Sperrle, Commander of the Luftflotte 3 (Air Fleet 3) </Li> <P> This number of promotions to what had previously been the highest rank in the Wehrmacht (Hermann Göring, Commander in chief of the Luftwaffe and already a Field Marshal, was elevated to the new rank of Reichsmarschall) was unprecedented . In the First World War, Kaiser Wilhelm II had promoted only five generals to Field Marshal . </P>

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