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FWIW, it’s worth digging into other sources when it comes to Guderian. His postwar memoirs were notoriously self-aggrandizing.

Also, the German term you’re looking for is possibly “Bewegungskrieg”, which translates literally to “maneuver warfare”. That terminology did catch on. Interestingly, the Soviets developed a very similar doctrine during that period and called it “deep battle”. Unfortunately for the Soviets, the general who developed that doctrine, Tukhachevsky, was executed in the purges.




I'm not fully certain, but didn't Germany and the Soviets worked together when developping the maneuver doctrines they would be using in WW2, with German officers training in tank usage in the USSR (since they weren't supposed to have tanks)?





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