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The concept of Blitz Greek is that the

enemy cannot gain a fresh foothold

somewhere and offer major resistance.

It calls for certain elements above all

large armored units that can act

operationally with air support.

You also need the right leadership

culture.

Militarily, the focus is usually on the

enemy's capital. To win the war, you

have to take it.

It was of course important to the

Germans to capture Warsaw with as few of

their own casualties as possible, but

they did so relatively quickly because

the Po's willingness to defend and their

morale had already been broken.

>> During the war in Poland, Hitler had

already told his military leaders of his

decision to attack France.

The Germans planned to go through

Belgium and act as bait, so to speak,

for the Allies, but the actual

destructive thrust was to take place

further south through the Arden. It was

a huge gamble, and the Germans were

lucky that the French failed tactically

and operationally.

Somehow, Hitler seemed to have cornered

success,

and Germany's military leaders also

bathed in the charisma which he now

exuded.

In the first world war, Germany had

fought for four years without taking

Paris. Now, this had been achieved

within a few weeks. Naturally, this was

a phenomenal achievement that could not

only be exploited propagandistically. It

also made a massive impression on the

German people.

Actually,

the Blitzgri operations and the whole

myth surrounding them showed how quickly

battles or campaigns could be won and

individual countries and armies

defeated. But it was not a concept for

winning an entire war.

On May 10th, 1940, German paratroops

were dropped in Belgium and the

Netherlands to seize strategically

important airfields and bridges.

In the Netherlands, at least, this swift

operation was designed to prevent the

Allies from intervening and to split

their defensive forces.

The invaders were successful almost

everywhere, although sometimes they

incurred serious losses.

One of the first targets was the Belgian

fort of Eban Emmael, not far from

Leazge.

Een Mel was a fort with a fairly

impressive location on the river Muz.

Although it was heavily fortified and

defended by a large contingent of

Belgian troops, Eban Mel was captured in

Blitzgreek style. In other words, on a

lower tactical level by German

paratroops flown in by glider who thus

helped secure the bridges over the M.

>> Engineers crossed the river in dingies.

The main German attack was directed at

the Albert Canal M River Line, the

anchor of which was Fort Ibeno, a modern

and seemingly impregnable fortress. The

Germans had secretly built a replica of

the mighty fortress in Czechoslovakia

and had rehearsed the attack until they

knew every detail of the fort's

construction and its every weakness.

When the real attack came, it was

foolproof. Parachute troops, dive

bombers, flamethrowers, specially

trained engineer battalions, all working

together as a well-trained team.

They knew exactly where to cross the

river.

Dive bombers supported the attackers as

they tried to storm the fort.

Although the commander of the fort had

been alerted, the complex was not battle

ready. There was a shortage of

ammunition and the fort's artillery

couldn't be used.

Neuralgic points had to be neutralized.

Airborne troops of course were perfect

for operational tasks like seizing

bridges and knocking out enemy command

posts.

A fortress like Ibel, which had to be

neutralized, was prepared for

everything, but not an airborne assault.

The Belgians had no defense against

that. They assumed that they would see

the enemy approaching and be able to

fight the Germans at a distance.

>> The fort had practically no

anti-aircraft defenses.

Other units moved up to support the

attack.

The Germans knew that the block house

roof wasn't mined and stormed it.

Using powerful shaped charges, they blew

up the steel shields around the

underground gun turrets. The 1100

defenders are said to have been

practically blinded. They couldn't see

the enemy coming in who blazed their way

with flamethrowers.

You will notice that this assault

engineer knows exactly where to put his

high explosive charge in order to

destroy the block house.

>> The plan worked. The explosions killed

large numbers of Belgian soldiers.

The surviving defenders holed up behind

barricades and waited. Tactically, this

was a mistake because it allowed the

Germans to set off more explosive

charges.

>> Fortnale withtood the Nazi attack

exactly 2 days.

>> Meanwhile, the actual attack in the

south was going to plan.

Gderian's armored cores had crossed

Luxembourg in 3 hours, reached the

Belgian border, and immediately launched

a mobile assault.

The first tank division was even able to

cross the sour on May 10th and advance

into neutral Belgium.

Nazi propaganda cameras filmed the first

tanks heading towards the Arden.

The sickle cut developed more and more

into a single shock troop operation.

A combination of speed and surprise

tactics.

The success of the plan depended

ultimately on the surprise effect on the

French defenders being caught unawares

because they had not expected the attack

and certainly not by such a huge enemy

force. As the first operations got

underway, it also became clear that the

French defenders regarded them as a

diversionary maneuver. They didn't

believe this was actually the main focus

of the German assault.

The French were still hoping that the

Majino line would be the place where the

Germans could be repulsed. If the French

had to shift their forces to combat the

first operations of the sickle cut, it

would play havoc with their entire

defensive planning.

Hines Gderion, the head of the rapid

forces at Army High Command, had

promised his troops that for the first 3

days they wouldn't get any sleep.

To stay awake, they were given a supply

of a stimulant called pervatin. But most

of the men had to wait outside Buong

because all the bridges had been

destroyed before the Germans arrived.

>> What do you need to get tanks moving?

Obviously, you'd say you need the

appropriate infrastructure, but you also

need engineers to secure bridges over

the rivers. The French didn't just

retreat. They also blew up bridges and

planted minefields which then had to be

cleared. So without engineers, tanks can

advance no faster than they can without

infantry moving up to occupy the cleared

areas behind them. These fast units were

indeed a spearhead, but they could only

penetrate as deeply as the wooden shaft

behind the spearhead permitted.

General Gudderion allowed himself to be

filmed at an army bridge being built

across the river Semoir. The Belgian and

French defenders had managed to blow up

the last bridge just before the first

German tanks arrived.

But then, thinking they were about to

sustain fierce attacks, they had pulled

out of Buong unnecessarily.

In Belgium, the Netherlands, and

Northern France, people fled from the

approaching Germans.

And the refugee choked roads didn't get

that way by accident. The Nazis

methodically bombed little towns and

villages, otherwise devoid of any

military value, not so much to kill as

to drive the inhabitants out onto the

highways.

Then by expert machine gun, the Nazis

would herd them along in terrorstricken

flight to hopelessly entangle the

advancing Allied armies.

>> An estimated 8 to 10 million people on

the roads led to massive congestion.

>> Refugees used as a weapon of war, a new

low in inhumanity.

It is not clear how many civilians were

killed in German air strikes.

The German bombers brought chaos and

destruction just to divert attention

from the actual war plan.

The German spearheads finally reached

the forests of the southern Arden.

They were supposed to have negotiated

the difficult terrain already, but the

army had been delayed through having to

build Bailey bridges.

This was not how Eric von Manstein, the

innovator of the sickle cut, had

envvisaged the operation.

The Munchstein plan was much better than

what actually happened because Hitler

and Halder had simply diverted virtually

all the armored units through the Arden.

And that in fact was madness because

they spent several days stuck in what

turned out to be the biggest traffic jam

in history.

40,000 motorized vehicles and tanks were

waiting behind the spearheads. By now,

von Mannstein's tank corps was also

caught up in the 250 km long jam.

So, the general didn't arrive at the

Western Front until May 16th, where he

was then assigned defensive tasks. His

superiors had got their way with Hitler.

>> The Munchstein,

The Munchstein plan foresaw two main

areas of attack. one through Belgium in

order as Mstein said to overrun the

enemy and not but Halder actually did

just bind it. Mstein really wanted army

group B to force the enemy back to the

sum. The second main thrust was to come

via the Arden but not in three surges

with huge jams but in one thrust which

if possible would take just one day with

armored units. The third error involved

something that was also in Mstein's plan

but was not acted on.

He had realized right from the start

that his flank would constantly be

threatened from the south. So to rule

out this threat in Mstein's plan,

armored units were to thrust south to

nip any French counteroffensive in the

bud. Those were his three main points.

But actually none of them were

implemented. His plan was completely

diluted. All that remained in the end

was this sickle cut with a massive

armored thrust.

Getting an army through a low mountain

range is an absolute nightmare for any

logistics expert.

It involves using numerous minor roads

instead of driving across an open plane

where the units could develop their full

potential.

Instead, they were put in a situation

which logistically was highly

vulnerable. This was something the

military on both sides just couldn't

imagine. But that is precisely why it

worked.

On May 12th, 1940, advanced units

reached the French border.

It then took them 4 hours to knock out a

frontier bunker camouflaged as a house.

Now, Saddan was only a few kilome away.

In 1870 in the suburb of Flowing, the

French cavalry had been destroyed by

Prussian artillery.

>> How did the Germans get through the

Arden so quickly? Because of a mistake

by the Allies. They had just not

prepared any real defense of the Arden.

There were two or three places where the

French or mainly the Belgian light

infantry units failed to receive the

order to retreat. Although these forces

were weak, they offered resistance and

in some cases held up the Germans for

half a day. So you can see what might

have happened if the allies had had the

right defensive concept for the Arden.

But they didn't because right to the end

they did not think it was possible to

advance through the Arden with large

units. When German armor suddenly

appeared at Saddan, the French were

totally surprised. Their best troops

were stationed elsewhere.

Gderian's armored spearheads had

achieved the improbable.

After 160 km, on the afternoon of the

third day, they could see the muse

heights at Sidon.

Up to now, in order to keep deceiving

the enemy, the German air force had

stayed right out of the sickle cut. But

now, Gudderion called for air support.

Within a few hours, more than 12,200

bombers entered the frey. It was the

most massive air raid by the German air

force in World War II.

>> The French had only second and third

rate units stationed at Sedon. Even

though it wasn't true, when they heard

that German tanks had crossed the M,

they panicked. But the big problem was

that French strategy was geared entirely

to sending the best troops to Belgium.

One after another, four strongly

fortified positions were destroyed by

storm troops who crossed the river in

dingies.

With the opposite embankment secured,

the Germans could begin building a

pontoon bridge.

The French artillery desperately tried

to prevent sections being brought up.

By now, French high command ought to

have realized that this is where the

Germans were launching their main

thrust.

Yet, they still failed to assess the

situation realistically. Above all,

French military intelligence had been

found wanting.

Only a few days into the campaign, a

decisive battle took place at Sedon. At

the very town where the Germans had

already defeated the French in 1870,

Gdderian's tank corps captured the river

crossing points and inflicted a major

defeat on the French.

>> On the morning of May 14th, the first

tanks drove over the pontoon bridge. The

same day, more than 800 followed, along

with a further 21,000 vehicles and

60,000 troops.

A textile factory provided sufficient

protection from French air strikes.

German transport aircraft taking off for

Rotterdam, one of the cornerstones of

Fortress Holland.

The aim was to drop troops behind the

lines and capture strategically

important positions in the North Sea

port.

Dutch neutrality was also of little

interest to the Nazis.

Like the Belgians, the Dutch, they

claimed, had favored Germany's enemies.

The German paratroopers faced an elite

unit of Dutch Marines who put up fierce

resistance.

On May 14th, an attempt was made to

force the city's mayor to surrender, but

he refused.

>> With the airborne operation at

Rotterdam, Holland was just a huge

diversionary maneuver to strengthen the

allies belief that the German attack was

taking place in the north and that that

is where they would send their reserves.

German bombers attack Rotterdam.

>> Although the Dutch were now willing to

capitulate, the city was subjected to a

terror attack.

The Germans claimed it was no longer

possible to call off the air raid.

transporter.

>> The port and the old town were bombarded

for 20 minutes.

There were no defenses because the Dutch

air force had already been destroyed.

Rotterdam was ablaze.

800 people lost their lives.

The world was stunned by such brutality.

The defenders of Rotterdam surrendered

to the Germans.

The following day, the Dutch chief of

staff said that the one-sided conflict

had to stop and announced the general

capitulation of the Netherlands.

The Dutch royal family and the

government fled to London.

In the early hours of May 14th, an hour

and a half after crossing the Muse,

German tanks attacking at Blitz Creek

speed had already reached a

strategically important rise.

French units arrived too late and were

destroyed south of Sudan.

>> Gudderian's tank core had achieved its

first major victory and was now pushing

the French further and further back. One

domino after another was now tumbling.

What's more, Gudderion did not listen to

his superior G von Runet, who was chief

of staff of the army group. After the

victory at Saddon, Vonstead had said,

"Now hold still for a while." But

Gudderion sensed the opportunity that

was opening up and continued to thrust

further west. This always put him one

step ahead of the French.

A French breakthrough could have had a

devastating effect on the totally

exhausted Germans in the bridge heads,

which were still not secure.

The tank divisions did not wait for the

infantry following behind. Instead, they

advanced independently.

And they could only do that because they

had the appropriate mindset, a

leadership culture that had been planned

in such a way that men thought for

themselves.

And because their tanks were already

equipped with radios relatively early

on, this was certainly a tactical

advantage.

Thus, they were fighting against French

tank units that were tied far more

closely to the infantry and because they

had also lost their leaders were

isolated.

>> The French surrendered to a superior

force. So, Gudderian's armored units

were quickly able to extend the Sidon

bridge head further south.

The French tanks were actually superior

to what the Germans had, but they were

more ponderous and because they also

consumed more fuel, they had a shorter

range.

The French certainly did not lose the

war in 1940 because their material was

inferior, because their army was worse,

too small or poorly equipped. That was

certainly not the case with regard to

men and material. The French army in

1940 was totally up to date.

It lost the war perhaps because of a

lack of resolve.

It also lost because its military

leadership procedures were slower at all

levels than on the German side.

Um,

and also because the French had no way

of combating this new approach to war.

They had their own plan for waging war.

The problem was that the Germans didn't

abide by it.

They succeeded in forcing a type of

warfare on the French in which the

Germans saw themselves as superior.

So although the French had the extremely

strong Majino line and a large air force

as well as large mechanized and partly

mechanized units, if they couldn't be

brought into play at some point, the

French would run out of time

because by then the Germans would have

attained their objectives and it would

no longer be possible to stop them.

The French air force tried desperately

to contain the German infantry that was

moving up and thus to cut off the

swiftly advancing tanks.

But these were just pin pricks. They had

no decisive effect. Nevertheless, the

Germans suffered losses.

In the end, the Blitzkrieg in France

resulted in between 30 and 40,000 German

casualties. The exact figures are not

known.

Time and again, the engineer battalions

performed superb work.

But even so, supplies could only be

brought up with great effort.

Now, no one could stop the tanks.

With their tank units, the Germans

created a main thrust which the French

could not stop.

One or two critical situations resulted

tactically in defeat or delay.

But basically German tanks surged

through to the Channel Coast.

Efficient organization was of decisive

importance throughout the entire

advance. Transport battalions brought

fuel, ammunition, and food by truck to

the rapidly advancing tank divisions.

At brief intermediate stops, tank crews

were handed jerry cans.

These pictures were taken by a Nazi

propaganda team, but they show what

actually happened.

To save time, sometimes the jerry cans

were even handed to tanks still on the

move.

Once armored units had started moving,

this logistical organization was of

decisive importance to the rapid

advance.

Yet such was the speed of the thrust

that even that was not enough.

In the end, the Germans had no

ammunition left. One battle report even

states, "We had two choices. Either to

retreat and face destruction or to

attack as if we were still strong." And

that is precisely what they did. With

virtually no ammunition, they mounted a

successful assault. The French thought,

"Oh my god, the Germans are going to

overrun us." So they retreated. It was a

total risk.

A British Expeditionary Corps had been

stationed in France ever since 1939.

It consisted of more than 200,000 troops

and over 600 tanks. But they supported

the French forces mainly in the north.

There was not much they could do.

the British.

The British army was very small.

Consequently, so was the expeditionary

force which fought in northern France

and Belgium. The British were extremely

cautious because they were concerned. If

we send too many elite or well-trained

troops to France and things go wrong,

we'll have weakened our own army to an

unacceptable degree.

The British Expeditionary Force in

France in 1940 was certainly a military

component.

First and foremost, however, it was a

strategic and diplomatic commitment.

By sending troops to the continent, the

British were underlining their intention

to continue fighting the war.

But in 1940, their troops had to be

rescued from the continent of Europe

because of the defeat suffered at

Dunkirk.

On May 17th, Winston Churchill traveled

to Paris. He could not believe that the

Germans were storming towards the

channel with so few tanks.

On asking where the French reserves

were, he received the Kurt reply that

there were none left.

But the German advance was certainly not

the shorefire success Nazi propaganda

was implying because there was often

fierce resistance at a local level.

But counter measures were unorganized

and improvised. The opposite in fact of

what the French had actually planned.

On May 21st, the German spearhead

reached the channel port of Abyville.

Protecting their flank along the SA, the

Germans fanned out to the north and

east. This was to be the perfect battle

of annihilation.

>> On May 24th, 1940, Hitler left his

headquarters in the Eiffel. Together

with his entourage, he headed for the

part of France that had already been

occupied. Field marshal Herman Guring

assured the Furer that the time had now

come for his dive bombers to finish off

the encircled enemy on the Channel

Coast. This final triumph was to fall to

the German air force, not the

Conservative Army. In the afternoon, the

tanks were halted. But on arrival at the

headquarters of Ger Fon Runstead, the

commander of Army Group A, this order

came as a total surprise to Hitler.

The order to stop before Dunkirk is the

biggest myth of the battle of France.

All the generals claimed later that it

had come from Hitler that he had halted

the tank units and as a result had given

the British time to pull back. But that

is completely wrong. First of all, the

order to halt did not come from Hitler.

It came from Colonel General Fonv who

was convinced that the armored units

urgently needed a break. They were

exhausted. There were problems in

providing supplies. The infantry first

needed to be brought up and every day a

French counterattack from the south was

expected. So Runstead said it would be

best if the armored units were halted

for a while. So Hitler was not even

involved. He came and visited Runstead

who then outlined the situation and

Hitler merely expressed his approval.

That's exactly how I see it, he said. So

do it. Lots of generals were up in arms

about it, but not all of them. We need

to take a close look at all those who

after the war claimed to have been

against it because many of them actually

said, "Yes, that makes sense."

>> Meanwhile, on the Channel Coast, the

Vermacht had captured one town after

another. Once again, the defenders left

the battle zone in a hurry and retreated

north.

On May 26th, the order to halt was

rescended,

but the British and the French had been

given enough time to establish a

defensive ring around Dunkirk.

On May 28th, the Belgian army,

compressed into a small space and weary

of battle, laid down its arms that left

the desperate French and British

defenders with their backs to the sea at

the small channel port of Dunkirk.

>> Nearly 340,000

Allied troops retreated to Dunkirk. They

hoped that warships would come and take

them back across the channel to Britain.

Most of the British expeditionary forces

had retreated to Dunkirk in the hope of

being evacuated and the British

government and the British military did

everything in their power to achieve

this. They got together as much

transport capacity as they could in

order to pick up soldiers and bring them

home.

Anything that was somehow seaorthy was

used. pleasure streamers, fishing smacks

and so on. The British people were

called on, fishermen were called on to

sail to Dunkerk.

There was very little communication and

cooperation. It was a chaotic operation,

if you like.

>> High overhead, British fighter planes

fought the Loop Waffer to a standstill.

>> Herman Guring couldn't keep his promise.

His air force could not stop the

evacuation.

While below, small Allied side units

held the Germans back long enough for

the miracle of Dunkirk to take place.

>> While the battle to crush the pocket was

raging all around them, in Dunkirk,

338,682

soldiers, 247,000 of them British and

123,000 French, managed to escape in a

mly fleet of 861 vessels.

Dunkerk was not only of major

psychological and symbolic importance to

the further course of the war. The

miracle of Dunkirk meant that the core

of the British army was preserved. In

other words, the British could continue

to build up their army against the

possibility of a German invasion. And in

the years that followed, without this

nucleus of troops, Britain would not

have been able to expand its armed

forces.

The soldiers saw themselves as losers,

but back home they were received as

heroes.

Winston Churchill insisted on visiting

the troops personally.

Churchill was convinced that he would

have to lead his country through the war

to the bitter end and he was willing to

do so. His famous speech, we shall fight

on the beaches, we shall fight in the

fields and in the streets, was just the

motivation the British public needed.

A few days later, a German soldier

filmed the deserted beach at Dunkirk.

Evidence of the German air attacks was

visible everywhere. The Allies had had

to leave behind all their equipment,

63,000 vehicles, 20,000 motorcycles,

475 tanks and armored cars, and 2,400

artillery pieces.

The French suffered heavy losses, but

they still managed to evacuate over

100,000 soldiers to the ports of

Sherborg and Breast to join up with

troops still fighting on the mainland.

>> It was an operational error that allowed

the Allies something no one on the

German side had thought possible, the

miraculous evacuation of most of the

British Expeditionary Force. 88,000

troops were still taken prisoner, most

of them French, but most of the British

force had made it back across the

channel. No one on the German side had

expected this. Hitler certainly hadn't.

But there was no sign of any

disappointment when he landed at an

airfield near Camry on June 2nd, 1940.

German soldiers wounded in battle were

quickly flown in to serve as the

backdrop to an appearance by their

commander-in-chief.

Joseph Gerbles wrote in his diary, "The

Furer towers high above us all. He is

one of history's geniuses. What a

wonderful time this is. It will be

followed by a period of great calm, one

we all long for, the Furer, perhaps more

than any of us.

Naturally, the success in France

bolstered Hitler's standing with his

military leaders.

propaganda coined by the propaganda

machine. The term greatest commander of

all time was indeed ironic

because at the time there was indeed

hardly anyone in the German military

leadership who was not convinced that

Hitler was still a guarantee of military

success.

On July 13th, the French government,

which had fled to Bordeaux, declared

Paris an open city.

The next day, Nazi propaganda celebrated

the seizure of the French capital.

For the cameras, a Nazi flag was hoisted

on the Eiffel Tower.

>> On June 14th, the Germans occupied

Paris. This was a highly prestigious

victory primarily because the French had

not fought for their capital. They had

declared Paris an open city, practically

without a battle. Reports also confirm

that the Parisians were relieved because

they did not want fighting to take place

in their city. All in all though, it was

a serious blow to French morale for the

capital to be in enemy hands. It was

also clear that the battle for France

was now over.

>> By and large, the Battle of France had

gone successfully, although in many

places the Germans had enjoyed

operational good fortune. And it should

not be forgotten that the French had

defended themselves well or that both

sides had suffered horrific losses. I

think it was of great benefit to the

German var that a change of government

then took place in France. This at least

created political room for maneuver.

There was no need to conquer the whole

of France because after the Polish

campaign and the battle of France, the

German vmach was somewhat bruised.

While a pro-German government headed by

first world war marshal Philip Petar was

taking up office in the northeast of the

country. Fighting still continued,

but it was pointless. One garrison after

another had to capitulate. Here for

example in the small town of Tul on the

Moselle River.

84year-old Marshall Petar had no choice

but to ask Hitler for a ceasefire.

The battle of France showed that with

the Blitz Creek approach, the Germans

could avoid a lengthy war by ending a

conflict in the short term. But it also

showed that this was not the blueprint

for waging a speedy war.

It was a blueprint for doing so.

So this didn't mean that it would prove

just as successful somewhere else under

different topographical conditions

with different people in charge and with

different adversaries who also behave

differently

in Compa north of Paris. A special

ceremony was being prepared. It was at

this very location in 1918 that the

Germans had had to accept defeat which

ended ultimately with the Treaty of

Versailles.

>> For Hitler,

>> naturally for Hitler, Compenne on June

22nd was the fulfillment of a lifetime's

dream. Right from the start, he had seen

it as part of his political program to

revise the shameful dictate of

Versailles, symbolized, of course, by

Marshall Faulk's saloon car, where the

German armistice delegation had had to

sign the armistice in 1918. To expune

this symbolically and practically from

the pages of history, Hitler had the

railway carriage brought to exactly the

same site. The French then had to accept

the conditions of the new armistice.

This was staged in style because for

Hitler, as for many Germans, this was

redressing, indeed erasing the disgrace

of 1918.

>> Many of the German troops wanted a

victory parade like the one held in

Warsaw. But Hitler decided against such

demonstrative humiliation.

>> Hitler in Paris.

It is still not quite clear why Hitler

himself did not take the salute at a big

parade in Paris.

A lot of it has to do with Hitler

himself. He still attached massive

importance to coming to Paris himself

very early in the morning and visiting

highly symbolic places like Napoleon's

tomb.

In this respect, standing as a military

leader at the tomb of Napoleon and being

able to drive through Paris, he became

part of a military tradition.

As a soldier in France in the First

World War, Hitler had never seen Paris.

So for him also as a soldier, there was

of course the ultimate satisfaction of

finally being able to bring the First

World War to an end.

The armistice conditions were tantamount

to capitulation.

Nazi Germany occupied 60% of French

territory on the European continent,

including the capital.

The rest was administered by the puppet

government of Marshall Peter in Vichi.

Blitzkrie.

The Blitz Greek campaigns and the entire

myth surrounding them shows how quickly

battles or campaigns can be won and

individual countries and armies

defeated.

But it is not a concept for winning a

war. And that is actually the

contradiction in the whole blitz Greek

myth. Everything might have gone

successfully from a military point of

view, but it did not help politically.

boyfriend.

>> Hitler did not plan to rest on his

laurels.

He planned other blitzkrieg assaults on

Great Britain and the Soviet Union. It

was the systematic path to the downfall

of a psychopath.