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So you've read the Albert Speer biography?
I have read a LOT about German Aircraft and Hitler had nothing to do with the JU87 the design was on the drawing board before Hitler came to power and as I said earlier it had been finalized before he declared himself the supreme leader of Germany . Ernst Udet however had a LOT to do with it and was responsible for the aircraft being adopted into service with the Luftwaffe when it had been cancelled by by the previous technical director of RLM Wolfram von Richthofen (the Red Baron's cousin) , Richthofen thought that a slow, cumbersome, diving Stuka would never survive the anti-aircraft guns toward which it was necessarily pointed—Udet happened the next day to be given Richthofen's job.