Here’s What You Need to Know: The success of mechanized units against Poland later informed the Wehrmacht’s maneuver-oriented strategy in the Battle of France. When over 1.5 million German soldiers ...
Key point: The Germans learned from the British and then used it against them. Blitzkrieg is usually thought of as a German invention in World War II. But had Imperial Germany not been defeated in ...
The term “Panzer” refers to a series of German tanks, the Panzer I through Panzer IV early in the war, followed by heavier combatants such as the Panther and Tiger Early Panzer IIIs carried 37–50mm ...
In late June 1941, battered Soviet tank divisions near Lutsk faced devastating Luftwaffe strikes, mechanical breakdowns, and relentless German panzer assaults. Despite catastrophic losses, shattered ...