How Did Hitler Use Blitzkrieg Strategy

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Today I am telling you about a certain type of strategy in WW2. It is called Blitzkrieg. Blitzkrieg In German terms means lightning War. The Germans would use this strategy to make short military campaigns and preserve more human lives. Also, another advantage to having short military campaigns was it would limit the cost of artillery. Hitler was the first to use this strategy in WW2. He was the first to implement this Strategy in Warfare.
Hitler's first attack using the strategy was in the invasion of Poland. The whole point of Blitzkrieg was too disorganized the enemy and catch them off guard. This Invasion started WW2. With Hitler doing the strategy of Blitzkrieg, it made the invasion only a few weeks long. Germany at this point thought their strategy was flawless. But, later on in the war in 1944 they tried Blitzkrieg against the US Army and British …show more content…

Then once they broke through, their tanks and military forces would roam around behind enemy lines. This would leave the enemy unorganized and surprised. This strategy became so successful that many other forces that were apart of WW2 start to use this strategy. One reason some forces would not use the strategy was that they didn't have all the supplies and vehicles and numbers that were needed for this task. Germany's goal at the beginning of WW2 was to avoid having a long war in Europe. So they used blitzkrieg to make short campaigns to defeat their enemies quickly. They overran Europe in a quick amount of time. At the beginning of the war many other forces that were in WW2 didn't know what Hitler was doing in this strategy. But they started to catch on. The forces need for this strategy was tanks, artillery, and air support. Which is why I stated that many forces didn't use this strategy because of all the money and forces they needed for