![]() ![]() ![]() Like his contemporary Sir Percy Hobart, Guderian initially envisioned an armored corps (panzerkorps) composed of several types of tanks. Of the two, Guderian became the more influential and his ideas were widely publicized. In the late 1920s German tank theory was pioneered by General Oswald Lutz and his chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Heinz Guderian. Passive, static and cordon defense had failed to halt or stop the tank supported by planes and infantry. The countries of the world looked on, at first with incredulity, and then with alarm approaching panic. Like acid, this armored force dissolved, so to speak, the best armament Poland, France, England, Yugoslavia and Greece could produce. Like mercury spilling on a laboratory floor, the tanks and other armored forces of Germany rolled across the plains of Poland in 1939 and again in 1940 rifled through the fortified hills and panoplied valleys of France. Sturmgeschütz (StuG) "assault gun" / tank destroyers ![]()
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