World War II figure: guderian
guderian (1888-1954), founder of German tank corps, general of the army, and war criminal of World War II. Born in Coulm, East Prussia. Served in 198. Graduated from the Military Academy in 1914. Served in the cavalry during World War I. Served in the national defence force after the war.
in 1922, he served in the automobile army and the tank army. In the early 193s, he began to study the theory of tank operations. He believes that tanks are strategically decisive weapons and puts forward the idea of focusing on using tanks for combat. In 1934, he proposed to form three tank divisions, and he served as the commander of the second tank division. In 1938, he served as commander of the tank army. During Germany's annexation of Austria, the head of the command post drove nearly 1 kilometers and arrived in Vienna within 48 hours. This action tested the actual combat ability of the tank soldiers, thus establishing his vanguard position among the German tank soldiers.
his other military achievement is the establishment and application of lightning strike tactics. When the Germans attacked Poland in September, 1939, the Germans took the tanks under his command as the main force and adopted the blitzkrieg tactics of surprise attack, which defeated Poland in only ten days. He is famous as a "blitzkrieg hero" and was awarded the Second Iron Cross by the German Supreme Commander.
In May, 194, the German army began to launch a blitzkrieg against Western Europe. He commanded the tank troops to advance at a critical juncture, which enabled the German army to conquer the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and other Western European countries for more than two months in a shorter time, once again demonstrating the power of tank assault tactics.
in June p>1941, the Soviet-German war broke out. Although his tank assault tactics achieved some success at the beginning of the war, they soon met with nemesis and quickly declined. In December of that year, he served as commander of the German 2nd Tank Army. When he participated in the defense of Moscow at the command post, he suffered the heaviest blow from the Soviet Union and was forced to order the troops to retreat. He was dismissed by the marshal and transferred back to the reserve.
In February p>1943, after the German army was defeated in the Battle of Stalingrad, he was recalled to be the commander of the tank force. He organized and developed the famous German Tiger and Leopard tanks, and mass-produced and equipped the troops. However, in the Kursk tank battle, the Germans ended in a fiasco. He left no stone unturned in German tank blitzkrieg tactics, and finally went bankrupt.
after his supreme commander was assassinated in July 1944, he once served as the chief of the army's general staff. In March 1945, he was dismissed again because of battlefield defeat, and later transferred to the reserve service. After the German surrender, guderian was captured by American troops and released soon after. He died in 1954. Author of memoirs "Tank Commander" and "Attention! Tanks! "and so on.