Heinz Guderian

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“Apassionate military leader and strategist, Heinz Wilhelm Guderian revolutionized modern warfare by using tanks and air power to gain rapid victories” (Heinz Guderian Facts). Heinz Guderian brought many victories for Germany by developing the military strategy Blitzkrieg; Blitzkrieg was very efficiency to bring victory for the German Army with order and success in little amount of time against the enemy such as France, Poland, and Norway. Germany won against many countries like Denmark and Norway for example with Guderian’s Blitzkrieg tactic with a single purpose of a hasty victory. In the battlefield, Guderian used the Blitzkrieg tactic against the enemy and by using a massive army of both machinery and solider units to overwhelm the enemy as a result, Guderian proven Blitzkrieg to be effective against the enemy. Heinz Guderian, a talented military tactician that earned the nickname “father of Blitzkrieg” for impacted the German warfare during World War II.
With Blitzkrieg, Heinz Guderian was able to regulate and controlled the German Army formation in little amount of time with communication and order to fight against the enemy. “Radio allowed German Blitzkrieg commanders to rapidly advance with their forces, see the battlefield with their eyes, not just on the map, and achieve much greater control of the situation and much better use their forces”(Blitzkrieg). History says that a large army is not impossible, but very difficult to command due to communication was very difficult in larger force, but with the radio in their hand, it allowed the German commanders to control and command a much larger army with better communication within any distance in the battlefield. Blitzkrieg was a simple tactic just a simple offense forma...

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...Blitzkrieg that led Germany hasty victories against the Allies; Heinz Guderian’s developed strategy Blitzkrieg has permanently influenced World War II. Blitzkrieg is very efficiency because Heinz Guderian was able to regulate and controlled the German Army formation in little amount of time due to having a simple formation and with the radio to provide them far distance communication within the units. Heinz Guderian created Blitzkrieg with only one single purpose to defeat their adversaries such as Poland, France, and Denmark for example in lightning speed. In the battlefield, the Blitzkrieg tactic involves a massive army of both machinery and solider units to be effective against the Allies during World War II.

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http://www.2worldwar2.com/blitzkrieg.htm http://biography.yourdictionary.com/heinz-guderian http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/blitzkrieg.htm

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