Peter Strasser - Legacy

Legacy

Strasser's impact on both the war and history was important for the future air warfare. He was instrumental in the development of long range bombing and the development of the rigid airship as an efficient, high altitude, all-weather aircraft. He was a major proponent of the doctrine of bombing attacks on civilian as well as military targets to serve both as propaganda and as a means of diverting resources from the front line.

We who strike the enemy where his heart beats have been slandered as 'baby killers' ... Nowadays, there is no such animal as a noncombatant. Modern warfare is total warfare. —Peter Strasser

One possible but unconfirmed name for Flugzeugträger B, the unfinished sister ship of the World War II German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, was Peter Strasser.