Word: guderian
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...Schlieffen plan, which might easily have been met and thwarted. The strategy was dropped, however, when a German major, flying in a snowstorm, was forced down in Belgium with a full set of war plans that was seized by the Allies. The substitute plan sent General Heinz Guderian's spectacular armored thrust through the seemingly impassable Ardennes to catch the French near Sedan, a critically weak point in their defenses...