Who created history, and who in history, created one great miracle after another.
Tanks were born in Britain, but they shined in Germany and created the "Blitzkrieg" in World War II, so who is the driving force behind the German "Blitzkrieg"? He was the "Godfather of the German Panzer Corps", the Director of Armored Forces in Nazi Germany, and the Army General Heinz Wilhelm Guderian.
His father wanted to make little Guderian a soldier since he was a child, that is, as we often say, from the beginning of the child, he was sent to the alternate officer school by his father at the age of 13, received strict military training, and then was admitted to the CSKA Command School in Berlin with excellent results, and became the youngest cadet in the school.
His father has always been an example for him to learn from, making him an upright man and doing things rigorously; a happy married life has filled him with humanistic feelings and never carried out a policy of genocide (which is rare among German generals in China), but as a soldier who takes the execution of orders as his duty, carrying out Hitler's policy is his duty, and the tank unit he commanded has become a scalpel in the hands of fascist Hitler, and one knife and one knife have broken through the whole of Europe, which has made the whole world ache and bleed!
Prussia, Friedrich the Great, said: "Experience is almost worthless if it is not sorted out and is not intended to be applied."
Guderian, after the baptism of the First World War, served as an infantry battalion commander, personally participated in the Battle of the Somme, had a clear understanding and experience of the rigid and cruel trench warfare, and the Rapid Breakthrough of British tanks through the German lines left a great impression on him.
Some things happen, and there are their own arrangements. Guderian, who was transferred to the staff of the Motorized Transport Department, began to study the first question how to transport troops in mobile defense? Motorized and armored vehicles are available; the second question is how to transport troops safely? That's only armored vehicles; the third question is whether armored vehicles can replace cavalry charge?
The picture of the British tank strong breakthrough defense line in the Battle of the Somme kept on, and he replayed in his mind, he began to study, develop, and improve the tank warfare theory of Fuller and others, and in order to attract the attention of the high-level, he worked tirelessly, published articles on tank combat theory in major military newspapers and periodicals, and looked for armored combat methods suitable for the German Army.
Opportunity always favors those who are prepared. After several years of research and practice, he firmly believes that the development direction of the armored corps is to become a strategically decisive new branch. In order to maximize its effectiveness, the Panzer Division should now be organized, and the Panzer Corps should be formed. Guderian's idea is actually the famous "tank victory theory".
Guderian was actively waiting, waiting for a man, this person was Hitler, he was looking for a new kind of army that could help him conquer Europe, and indeed the whole world, during a review of the troops, Guderian made elaborate arrangements, saw the armored troops passing, Hitler shouted: "This is what I want!" This is what I want!", the two hit it off, Hitler got the "Whip of God" and shook the whole world, and Guderian will fulfill his dream of "blitzkrieg hero"!
Forcefully push the armor group and open Pandora's box. The invasion of Poland was the beginning of the "Blitzkrieg", which was tried and tested by the German army and shook the world. But the invasion of Poland is not the most classic blitzkrieg, and the real use of the German tank depth assault and division and other maneuvering advantages is the blitzkrieg French "sickle harvest plan". First, with a strong armored force through southern Belgium and Luxembourg to Sedan attack, in the area to break through the Maginot Line, the French defense line cut in two, complete the encirclement, smash the French Charles de Gaulle armored counterattack, a month and a half later,
At the end of the war in France, Guderian's armored forces annihilated 250,000 enemy troops, making a "great contribution" to Hitler.
Guderian was a pure soldier, and all he thought was about how to win the war. Hitler, on the other hand, was a madman who considered himself a strategist, and people like Guderian were too short-sighted. In the Soviet-German War, Guderian was appointed commander of the 2nd Panzer Group, whether to divide Kiev and the Lenin GBO from north to south, or to attack Moscow immediately? It turns out that although the German army took Kiev, it gave the Soviet army a chance to breathe, Zhukov successfully held Moscow, and organized the Soviet army to counterattack on all fronts, and the result was that the Soviet army won the Battle of Moscow!
Guderian was removed from office and became a scapegoat for the defeat at the Battle of Moscow.
The building will fall, and it will be difficult to support it alone. Although Guderian served as the director of the armored corps and the chief of the army's general staff at the end of World War II, the contradictions with Hitler remained unresolved, the differences were constant, the quarrels were endless, and it was difficult to achieve success, and he was dismissed again. After Germany announced its unconditional surrender, it became a prisoner of the American army!
After his release, Guderian wrote a memoir that he would not admit defeat until his death, which was the life of the "Godfather"! A lifetime of contradictions!
Churchill once said: "If it were not for Guderian, Hitler's war would have failed at the beginning".