Word: blitzkrieg
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...German invasion of Poland had waged an overpowering Blitzkrieg against the Presidential hopes of all other Democrats and of many Republicans. Temporarily in the background was John Nance Garner, who believes with "The Boss" that the sane course is a return to international...
...populace of Danzig seemed to figure that for them the Blitzkrieg or Lightning War was over, and they cavorted with the gaiety of Armistice crowds in 1918. The 407,000 Danzigers are 94% German, solidly Nazi and have been super-propagandized for years to believe that most of their troubles would vanish once the Free City was unshackled from League of Nations and Polish control, rejoined to the Reich. Trudging in last week with armfuls of wild flowers from the countryside, the people had carpeted with blossoms ten miles of road leading into Danzig from their gambling casino suburb Zoppot...
Thus with a terse communique this week the German Army High Command affected to close its books on the Blitzkrieg in Poland, promised that "exact [German] losses . . . unusually small in comparison to the enormous losses of the enemy . . . will be given in a few days."* Estimating the material cost to Germany of shattering Poland in three weeks, the communique added: "Munitions and fuel consumption of this campaign amounted to only a fraction of [German] monthly production." With a stiff, heel-clicking bow from the waist to the Nazi Party, the Army High Command observed that in Poland spade-wielding young...
...least partly to his willingness to back Adolf Hitler where more experienced generals would not. This week Brauchitsch was a name to put beside those of Moltke, Ludendorff and Schlieffen: not only was he Germany's No. 1 Krieger (warrior), but he had fostered, planned and led the Blitzkrieg-and proved its validity up to the hilt...
With the western frontier fortified, Brauchitsch could plan his attack, and the form it took was as old as warfare itself. Only the materials and the name were new. Blitzkrieg, in its simplest terms, is merely a war of movement, as opposed to a war of position, carried out with the fastest units available. Before World War I it was cavalry that flanked enemy positions, cut off communications, destroyed supplies. In both the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 the Germans won their decisive battles within six weeks after hostilities began...