Interesting website.

[Motherland]

This is a very detailed website about the German 33-victory fighter ace and Knights Cross recipient Heinz Knoke. Knoke was a pilot who served in the Battle of Britain and Operation Barbarossa with JG52 before being transferred to Reich Defense duties with JG1. By the time I/JG1 was redesignated II/JG11 in April 1943, Knoke had become staffelkapitaen of his staffel, 2.JG1 / 5.JG11. In August 1944 Knoke was placed in charge of III/JG1, which would be the gruppe he would serve with until he was permanently crippled on October 9 1944 by a roadside bomb.
In 1952 Knoke published his memoirs under the name 'Die Grosse Jagd' (the big hunt). This is still purchasable in the United States as 'I Flew for the Fuehrer. It's a very good read.
Heinz Knoke died in May 1993.

The website

[Gunthr]

Thanks for the link.  The book was very good reading and informative.  Something I didn't like about Knocke tho, if I recall correctly, is that he joined the Nazi party...is that so?

[Lusche]

Thanks for the link.  The book was very good reading and informative.  Something I didn't like about Knocke tho, if I recall correctly, is that he joined the Nazi party...is that so?

I don't know if he was a NSDAP party member.
However he was a member of the "Sozialistische Reichspartei" (SRP), a national-socialist follow-up party after the war until that party was banned in 1952
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Reich_Party

[Scherf]

I read this one the other day - subtitle should be "How I learned to stop worrying and love National Socialism."

That and the fact it's full of inaccuracies makes it an interesting description of conditions & morale at various times of the war, but not much more.