Why the need for German planes?

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From what I can tell, we are never (except for one recon mission) going to use German planes in single player. Why are they included?

I was really hoping to play as a German pilot and get to use the Luftwaffe planes on missions.

I don't do the multiplayer games yet since they are hard to find, and everyone keeps crashing.

The only thing I can think of to do with the Luftwaffe planes are the Training games where you can setup single player games.