Heinz Guderian Essay

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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 ...view middle of the document...

The German army used the Blitzkrieg tactic to defeat their adversaries quickly such as Poland, Denmark, Norway, and France in World War II. On September 1, 1939, German invaded Poland and forced Poland to surrender within four weeks. History always tell us that forcing a country to surrender take way longer than 1 month, but German has accomplished amazing achievement forcing their enemy to surrender within four weeks. On April 9, 1940, German used Blitzkrieg to invade Denmark within six hours; Denmark government realized a successful defense against the German was impossible, so the Denmark government immediately surrendered. In six hours, German used the Blitzkrieg strategy to invade and conquer Denmark that is significant because a county never conquered another country on the first day they invaded, but with Blitzkrieg, they made their mark in history by forced the Denmark government to surrender immediately to Germany within six hours on the first day they just invaded.
In the battlefield, the Blitzkrieg tactic was fearsome and effective against the enemy because by using a massive army of both machinery and solider units, the German Army can bring massive damage to the defeated enemy. “In the early morning darkness of May 10, the Germans unleashed their Blitzkrieg against the Netherlands and Belgium. The attack sent the defending troops reeling. The roads overflowed with refugees fleeing the front. French and British troops rushing to the rescue were caught in the headlong retreat and pushed back” (Blitzkrieg, 1940). That Blitzkrieg strategy caused the...

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