Blitzkreig

In 1939 a new warfare development was made from the Germans to enhance their advantages on the battlefield. The introduction of the Blitzkrieg was used against the Invasion of Poland. Blitzkrieg means lightening war and it certainly was.
The Blitzkrieg was an unprecedented type of warfare that an enemy was forced to defend along a broad front. It had a line with concentrated armored thrusts called Panzers. The Blitzkrieg would disrupt the enemy reaction with tactical air attacks. They sabotaged the enemy landscape with “5th Columnists.” To follow all of these elements came paratroopers.
This new shocking warfare technique allowed the Germans to overtake Poland completely in six weeks. It was a swift, sudden, and overwhelming victory that surprised the world. No one had ever seen anything like it before.
First the German planes bombed the airfields, factories, towns, and cities, and screaming dive-bombers fired on troops and civilians. Then fast-moving t...