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Oct 29, 2021 · Witnessing the firebombing of London from a city balcony on Dec. 29, 1940, Pyle described the city as “ringed and stabbed with fire” in one of his most famous early war reports. Eager to “get out and see some shooting” at the enemy, the adventurous American soon found himself among an AA-gun crew—sipping tea.
- “Hurrying Heinz” vs Adolf Hitler
- Guderian in The Historical Retrospective
- Guderian’s Inspirations: Fuller, Degaulle, and Liddell Hart
- Achtung Panzer!
- Guderian’s Early War Record
- Operation Barbarossa
- Opposition to Heavy Armor
- Guderian’s Role in The Plot to Assassinate Hilter
- A Member of The “Honor Court”
- Heinz Guderian’s Complicated Legacy
Matters heated up even more dramatically in a February 13, 1945, meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin. Guderian noted that intelligence showed the Soviets could increase their forces on the River Oder by some four divisions per day, necessitating the launch of an attack within two days. Heinrich Himmler, leader of the dreaded SS, who was charged wi...
Guderian was one of a fortunate few. His independence, proven battlefield brilliance, the absence of documented war crime activities, and his polished writing skills were to serve him well in the coming years. In 1937, he had published Achtung Panzer!, a groundbreaking primer on the use of armored formations in warfare. His Panzer Leader,a 500-page...
Guderian was a complex, bright, self-confident, technological innovator. As a young officer in World War I, he took it upon himself to take a flight over the Ardennes in a frail biplane to get a better look at the enemy formations facing his troops. That experience and his personal knowledge of the terrain were to pay handsome dividends years later...
Guderian had the drive and ambition, while Hitler provided the opportunity. He used his ability as a technological innovator to further his ideas and career, helped along by the German desire to rebuild the military and avoid the prolonged trench warfare endured in World War I. During much of the interwar years he was fortunate to work under Oswald...
Guderian’s favor with the Führer helped him to get posted to command a second-line defensive infantry corps during the planning of the August 1939 invasion of Poland. Guderian pulled out all available political stops and managed at least to get himself reassigned to command an untried motorized corps rather than the XVI Corps that had brought him n...
Guderian also showed his military prowess when Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. His panzer group was in the central thrust toward Moscow, crossing three major rivers, capturing 300,000 Soviet soldiers in the Minsk pocket, and taking that city and Smolensk with another 300,000 Russian prisoners along with 3,200 tanks and more than ...
In many ways, the self-described panzer leader was fortunate to have been dismissed. His reputation was not tarnished by the Axis defeat in North Africa, the retreat from Moscow, or the disaster that befell the Sixth Army at Stalingrad. On February 28, 1943, Hitler named Guderian inspector general of armored troops to direct a reorganization of the...
Perhaps the most intriguing question in Guderian’s background revolves around his possible knowledge of plans to assassinate Hitler. While his memoirs freely acknowledge some interaction with a few of the conspirators during his 1942-1943 period of unemployment, historian Russell Hart says Guderian “concluded the scheme lacked sufficient prospects ...
Guderian was able to do just that, and the next day a still bomb-dazed Hitler promoted the former panzer leader to acting chief of the general staff. Hitler also made Guderian a member of the “honor court” that screened and discharged members of the armed forces accused of involvement in the July 20 conspiracy. The accused were then subjected to sp...
Guderian proved to be a very bright and very complex individual. He was a proven general who could and did make quick, difficult decisions. For the most part, his men loved him, his peers respected him, and his superiors often grated at his impertinence. One superior, Field Marshall Gunther von Kluge, was so enraged by Guderian that at one point he...
In this video, IWM's John Delaney explains the three key ingredients for any successful Blitzkrieg: speed of movement, speed of decision making, and an overconfident enemy. Blitzkrieg tactics explained | How Hitler invaded France WW2. Watch on. View video transcript.
Dec 16, 2016 · Blitzkrieg emphasizes operational and tactical evidence to persuasively argue that the 1940 campaign was decided not by tanks and dive-bombers alone, but through an updating of German military experience infused, but not dominated, by technology.
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The Blitz of WW2, sometimes known as the London Blitz, was the German bombing campaign that lasted eight months and targeted 16 British cities. Blitz' is an abbreviation of the German word ...
Jun 12, 2019 · But if Case Yellow was not a blitzkrieg, then what was it? Here Frieser made his most important contribution. Viewed strategically, the Germans lost World War II on September 1, 1939, the day they invaded Poland and brought down the wrath of the Western powers, with their domination of the seas and their vast, resource-rich overseas empires.
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Nov 13, 2011 · General Heinz Guderian is often considered to be the father of modern armored warfare and his name is closely linked to the successful Blitzkrieg tactics of the German army during the first half of World War II.
