On Friday, July 20, 2018 at 7:19:53 AM UTC-4, Andreas Maurer wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 15:39:08 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

The Treaty of Versailles?

Guess where the German market domnination came from...#

Yup. That famous treaty of Versailles after World War 2 that drove all
the other glider manufacturers out of the market in the 1970s.........

sigh

No, it's the imposed treaty at the end of WW1 that prohibited Germany from acquiring military airplanes. That pushed the Germans into developing and training in gliders instead, to prepare their future pilots. Thus the 1920's advances in gliders and soaring there, which gave them a head start in the field.