Only Peasants call it "BLITZKRIEG" - Bewegungskrieg
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I found "Blitzkrieg" in a German military publication from December 1939 and it was published by the General Staff as well. Still, the term was rarely used and what the Germans were all about - for a long time - was "Bewegungskrieg" (war of movement) and to prevent the dreaded "Stellungskrieg" (positional war), whereas trench warfare ("Grabenkrieg") would be a subset of. »» GET BOOKS & VIDEOS «« » Stukabook - Doctrine of the German Dive-Bomber - http://stukabook.com » The Assault Platoon of the Grenadier-Company November 1944 (StG 44) - http://sturmzug.com » Army Regulation Medium Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com » Tank Assault - Combat Manual of the Soviet Tank Forces 1944 - http://stm44.com » IS-2 Stalin's Warhammer - http://www.is-2tank.com » StuG: Ausbildung, Einsatz und Führung der StuG Batterie - http://stug-hdv.de » Achtung Panzer? Zur Panzerwaffe der Wehrmacht - http://panzerkonferenz.de » Panzerkonferenz Video - http://pzkonf.de »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon - see videos early (adfree) - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis » YouTube Membership - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK09g6gYGMvU-0x1VCF1hgA/join »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized »» SOURCES «« Frieser, Karl-Heinz: Blitzkrieg-Legende: der Westfeldzug 1940, 4. Auflage, Oldenbourg: München, 2012. Citino, Robert Michael: The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich, University press of Kansas: Lawrence, Kansas, USA, 2005 (Modern war studies). Reichskriegsministerium (Hg.): Militärwissenschaftliche Rundschau. 1937-1945. Franke, Hermann (Hg.): Handbuch der neuzeitlichen Wehrwissenschaften. Erster Band: Weltpolitik und Kriegführung, Verlag von Walter de Gruyter & Co.: Berlin und Leipzig, Germany, 1936. Hughes, Daniel J.: Blitzkrieg, in: Brassey's Encyclopedia of Land Forces and Warfare, p. 155-162 Ong, Weichong: Blitzkrieg: Revolution or Evolution?, in: RUSI December 2017 – Vol. 152 No. 6, p. 82-87 Harris, J.P.: The Myth of Blitzkrieg, in War in History 1995 2 (3), p. 335-352 00:00 Intro 01:18 „Bewegungskrieg” everywhere 01:42 The Sources: Militärwissenschaftliche Rundschau & Handbuch der neuzeitlichen Wehrwissenschaften 03:04 Bewegungskrieg & Stellungskrieg in the Sources 03:53 Bewegung the source for Victory 04:31 Bewegungs- vs Stellungskrieg 05:24 First World War 06:38 Degeneration of War 07:51 But what about “Blitzkrieg”? 10:12 Militärwissenschaftliche Rundschau on “Blitzkrieg” 11:28 Summary #Blitzkrieg #bewegungskrieg #ww2 #wehrmacht #germanarmy #mythvsreality
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