Despite their defeat in World War I, the German officer corps in the interwar period still saw an offensive operation as the main means of victory in a future war. Therefore, he had a different experience of the Great War than his French counterpart. Drawing on the experience of 1914-1918, including the infiltration tactics used by Stosstruppen's troops, but also noting the intensive development of aviation and armored weapons, part of the German officer corps (e.g. General Heinz Guderian) developed theoretical assumptions of the so-called blitzkrieg (in German: Blitzkrieg), that is, the effort to overthrow the enemy with a decisive offensive operation carried out in the shortest possible time and with the maximum intensity of forces and resources. The German officer corps was also trained according to this offensive warfare doctrine in the 1930s and during the World War. It is also worth adding that German officers at almost all levels during the Second World War used the principle of the so-called task command (in German Auftragstaktik), that is, they described to their subordinates the task to be performed and the forces at their disposal. , while the execution of the task depended entirely on them. This command model, based on very well and uniformly trained officers, led to the fact that the German army was very flexible in action and could react faster at various levels than its opponents (for example, the French army during the campaign of 1940). or Soviet Army of 1941). This system was successful (especially at lower levels) during World War II. It is also worth adding that many prominent commanders served in the German officer corps during World War II, including: Erich von Manstein, Heinz Guderian, Erwin Rommel and Walter Model.
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