Good Example Of Report On Blitzkrieg

Blitzkrieg is the theory of conducting brief war, according to which victory is achieved in the period calculated in days, weeks or even months, before the enemy will be able to mobilize and deploy its main military forces.
During the World War II, European military theater have seen a lot of successful and not blitzkrieg acts and plans. For the first time in practice, the German military strategists at the beginning of the Second World War when capturing Poland successfully carried out blitzkrieg. The campaign in Poland was the first demonstration and successful implementation of the theory of "quick war" waged by the forces of armored units with air support. Poland is best suited for the demonstration of the blitzkrieg. The length of its borders was very large and was a total of about 3,500 miles, of which 1,250 miles were in the German-Polish border. By the beginning of the war, the southern and northern parts of Poland were open to invasion. Western areas have formed a huge projection on the flanks, which aims the German invasion army.
The success of the invasion facilitated by the fact that the Polish leaders, neglecting the defense, had not pay attention to the construction of fortifications. They were counting on the success of counter-attacks, which, in their opinion, was capable for the Polish Army, despite the lack of mechanization. Thus, the German mechanized divisions was not difficult to find and use open areas for the offensive, and the swiftness of the German strike forces and endanger the rear thwarted most counter-attack of the Polish forces.
German Army carried out another success blitzkrieg operation in Norway and Denmark as well. Immediately after the start of the war, Scandinavian issue has acquired a special significance for Germany and England. Churchill believed that Scandinavia must be freed from the threat of German invasion and included in the British system.
In accordance with the developed plan of the German command, April 9, transports of artillery and other heavy loads, disguised as merchant ships out of port, headed for Narvik. German Ambassador in Oslo and Copenhagen handed over the governments of Norway, Denmark duplicate content notes in which an armed uprising of Germany was justified forced the need to protect both neutral country by allegedly coming soon attack the British and French, and to prevent plotting them spread the war on Scandinavian territory. The goal of the German government, said in a note, a peaceful occupation of both countries.
Denmark obeyed the request of Germany almost without resistance. As the Norwegian Government, although it is at the beginning and resisted, but did not apply completely to the negative intentions of the Germans occupy the country.
The scale and audacity of this enterprise was to the English rather unexpectedly. Perhaps the only decisive action the British could still change the situation, if they were able to quickly identify and immediately use the weaknesses of the German occupation of Norway plan. If the British were able to drive the Germans out of Trondheim, it would be crucial. In this case, the German troops could not last long and in Narvik. Such actions of the Western powers, perhaps even allow them to achieve their main goal, which is pursued planned for April 8 operation: to prevent the Germans to use the ports of the west coast of Norway, for the transport of the ore.
During the World War II blitzkrieg, strategy allowed Nazi Germany to break the Soviet forces in the band of 100-300 km east of the border between the USSR and Germany and its allies. Nevertheless, the loss of the German army at the time of the destruction of the encircled Soviet troops, equipment and wear resistance of the defenders finally led to the failure of the Blitzkrieg strategy on the Eastern Front.
The failure of the blitzkrieg predestined downfall calculations of the German command to the quick capture of raw areas of the Soviet Union. By the end of 1941, German industry began to experience ever-increasing shortage of labor; many experienced experts were called to the front.
The counterattack of Soviet troops near Moscow in the winter of 1941-42, heavy losses forced the Wehrmacht to rebuild the German industry to refocus its capacity to conduct a long war. In winter 1941-42, the economic situation in Germany significantly worsened. All these processes are accompanied by the inevitable deterioration of the financial position of the German population.
In the winter of 1941-42, the process of mobilization of all resources of the country began in Germany to conduct a protracted war. However, the possibility of the military industry of the Reich was more limited than that of the main coalition of allied countries: the USSR, the UK and the US. After the fight in the East has entered a new stage, it became clear many flaws of the German economy, its weak willingness to withstand the stress of a long war. It should be noted that Germany is rather late start of the process of a total restructuring of the entire economy on a war footing.
This was one of Hitler's leadership failures, previously only hope for victory in a lightning war. We know that the industry of the Third Reich was able to increase production of tanks of all samples from 2,808 pcs in 1940 to 6.008 pcs in 1941 the Wehrmacht Land Forces have increased the number of armored divisions to 21. Nevertheless, such an increase in production of tanks appeared insufficient due to huge losses at the front.