Von sickert, known as the "father of the German army in World War II", served as the chief of staff of the German army after the war in July 19 19, and became the commander-in-chief of the German Defence Force a year later. From 1920 to 1926, he has made great contributions in this position, and it cannot be overestimated. In the era of political turmoil and chaos in that country, he created an army that became the mainstay of the country and proved to be the best trained and most powerful leader of his generation. He made a plan to rearm and revive morale, so that the German army's greatest advantage, the officer corps, could be preserved and new tactical tactics could be brewed. The Treaty of Versailles stipulates that the number of German troops should not exceed100000, so the standards set by sickert are: soldiers are in good health and their service life exceeds 12 years; Officers should have more than 25 years of military experience. Once you become a member of the National Defence Force, you must receive some special training, with the emphasis on leadership. He attaches great importance to the individual skills and subjective initiative of soldiers. The contract prohibits Germany from owning military academies. He established a joint regimental military education system with troops as the unit. Every soldier is trained as a sergeant, every sergeant is trained as an officer, and every officer is trained as a general. Exercise once every six months to improve professional skills and professional quality. There are no tanks and anti-aircraft guns, so they are made of cardboard and wood. The Germans may be the only army that uses toy planes to simulate real planes to practice aerial shooting! Individual soldiers should claim to be a platoon or represent an 8-person machine gun group during the exercise. All this constitutes von sickert's "hundred thousand troops"!
Quote some of his words:
"A country without defense is shameful!"
"Any unequal treaty, anything that the enemy can't take away from us, is a strong belief. When fate once again calls the German people to arm themselves (this day will come! ), he will see a soldier rather than a coward holding a loyal weapon tightly. As long as you have an iron fist and will, it doesn't matter what weapon you use. "
"Advanced equipment can defeat flesh and blood, but it can't defeat the immortal spirit of mankind!"
Von sickert's modesty can indeed be described as virtuous. When he retired, he refused to be promoted to Marshal, and stayed in the rank of first-class general as the commander-in-chief of the German Defence Force (which made many people very dissatisfied with Hitler's 40-year seal/Marshal Kloc-0/2). However, unlike some unknown generals who had no rank in World War II, the name Von sickert is unique in the world military history, without any flowery words and titles. Being honored as "the father of the German army in World War II" and the German army before "revolutionization" being called "the army of von sickert", can't it reflect his position?
Alexander von Falkenhausen (Alexander von Falkenhausen) [the first general who asked me to correct my views on the Germans].
Falkenhausen made great contributions to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and he made a general strategic blueprint for War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. This upright soldier devoted himself to China's military training, reform, military equipment, navy and air force, air defense facilities and so on, and did a lot of work with all his heart.
1in July, 935, he drafted "Suggestions on Countermeasures against the Current Situation", which accurately judged the general trend of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression that broke out two years later and played a considerable guiding role.
The proposal reads:
"At present, the most serious and urgent threat to China is of course the Japanese. The Japanese love for China is well known. Its interests are contrary to those of China, so we must use all means to undermine the unity and strength within China, at least try to delay its realization. " "Imagine that the government will have perseverance, it will admit the enemy's demands, and it will silently accept them without resistance. Despising people's anger is to arouse resistance, so it should not be underestimated. If the leader does not have such will, the people will not go out to resist. The will to resist must have strong power in order to have a fixed foundation. At present, China's army cannot undertake a new type of war. However, if it cannot resist the enemy for a long time, it will be forced to strengthen its strength. It is important to build a small but extremely new national defense force. "
"In the event of a military conflict, North China will be directly threatened. If Hebei gave up without fighting, it would not be difficult for Longhai Road and its main city, that is, the war zone before the incident, Shandong to take a sweeping action against the Yellow River defense. Those who are of great significance to the coastal areas are the first to push the Yangtze River. If the enemy can control the most important center of China until Wuhan, then China's defense force will lose its most important foundation, so when it comes to the mainland, China will be split in two. "
"At present, the main force of the national army is concentrated in the south and west. It is advisable to quickly deploy the forces that can be saved and station in various districts so that they can fight. All the forces used in combat should be concentrated in Xuzhou-Zhengzhou-Wuhan-Nanchang-Nanjing. The north is covered with Longhai Road and survival equipment along the road. Therefore, the initial resistance area must be pushed northward, so the first line from Cangxian to Baoding must be absolutely defended ... The last line is the Yellow River, and artificial flood discharge should be planned to increase defense. There are two very important things in the East: one is to block the Yangtze River, and the other is to guard the capital, and the two are closely related. Followed by Wuhan and Nanchang, which can be used as support points, we should stick to it and keep in touch with Guangzhou. Finally, Sichuan is the last line of defense. "
He presided over the protection of Jiangyin fortress in the Yangtze River and the construction of Shanghai, Five Blessingg and Yincheng lines. Sino-German military cooperation has also played a positive role, trying to make buyers and sellers mutually beneficial and have their own needs. "Try to introduce items that are most beneficial to China and suitable for the actual situation in China, and set fair prices, regardless of the country of origin and trade name." So that some German companies angrily called him "German?"
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, German consultants always appeared at the forefront. North China, Shanghai, Xuzhou and so on. German modelers and German equipment played an important role in supporting the overall situation in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.
After the beginning of World War II, due to the special relationship between Japan and Germany, the German government ordered the advisory group to return to China on 1938. Even threatened not to return to China by treason, revocation of nationality and confiscation of property. On July 8, von Falkenhausen and other consultants boarded the ship in Guangzhou with tears in their eyes.
As the supreme commander of the German army in northern France and Belgium, under the coordination of "China Schindler" and according to his official position, von Falkenhausen tried his best to rescue the underground rebels arrested by the Nazis in Belgium, so that the tragedy in Belgium did not happen like that in France.
Heinz guderian
Heinz guderian, the father of German Armored Forces and Blitzkrieg.
Guderian, a first-class general in the German Army, was the father of Nazi German armored forces and the founder of German "Blitzkrieg".
1888 was born in the family of a German army officer in East Prussia. 1908 officially joined the German army and participated in the First World War.
He received a formal and systematic military education, but he dared to innovate in tank warfare and was far superior to others without a teacher.
Although the British Fuller and liddell hart first put forward the theory of high-speed tank warfare, and the first experimental armored force in the world was first established by the British in Salisbury Plain, guderian surpassed these theoretical pioneers with amazing perseverance and founded and trained German armored forces. It can be said that a series of major victories won by the Germans in the early World War II were attributed to this man. At that time, it was because Germany could not win any European power only by comparing the forces and equipment of all parties, and it was precisely because of the successful use of the tactics of high-speed tank warfare (that is, "blitzkrieg") that the German victory was so brilliant.
The core of the blitzkrieg proposed by guderian is: "With the rapid mechanized attack force with strong assault and maneuverability, a large number of highly mechanized combat aircraft and heavy artillery will be assembled to provide rapid and intensive fire support to armored forces, forming an invincible assault force, which will produce a frightening shock and make the enemy lose its fighting spirit in consternation and make the enemy collapse rather than destroy the enemy."
The troops completed the clearing and disintegration of the enemy. "
Hitler's coming to power provided the broadest world for guderian's practice.
1939 served as the commander of 19 Army (including the 3rd Armored Division) in August, and joined the Polish campaign a month later. This tank unit served as
The leader of the northern wing of the German army, like nobody's business all the way, was in front of the expressway with Chrysler's panzer corps in less than two weeks.
The advance trapped the tactically backward Poles, and the role of German infantry was to encircle the enemies in the encirclement.
1May, 940, participated in the French campaign and once again served as the offensive spearhead. Due to Munster's suggestion, the Germans will mainly attack.
Moving to the Ardennes in the south wing-usually considered as an area where tanks can't pass-guderian decisively surpassed him here.
Originally an armchair strategist, his attack speed not only frightened his opponents, but also his superiors and Hitler: after crossing the Maas River,
He will no longer use tanks as self-propelled artillery, but will play high-speed sports as far away as possible, from Sedang to Abu on the coast.
Gravlin became an earth-shattering encirclement, putting all the allies in northern France and Belgium.
Pocket.
Moreover, he also broke the record of attack speed in the history of modern war, that is, in less than six days, his armored forces entered.
More than 400 kilometers, that is, across France, drove the tank to the Atlantic coast. If it weren't for Lieutenant General Goering, Hitler ordered it to stop on the spot.
Stop chasing, the British and French forces will be wiped out in Dunkirk. In the whole human history, perhaps only Genghis Khan's Mongolian cavalry and the United States.
Sherman had the same record in wartime.
194 1 May, 2008, he was promoted to commander of the 2nd Armored Army. After the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, his bold progress once again shocked the world.
Sri Lanka's 3rd Panzer Corps became the decisive assault force, and conducted several famous encirclement and annihilation wars in five months, namely Mince.
Viktor, Smolensk, Kiev and Vyazma are all close to Moscow, and there are nearly two million prisoners alone.
Man, this is unique in the history of human war, and the battle of Kiev has also been recorded as the biggest annihilation war in human history.
Book-Captured more than 660,000 Soviet troops.
After the Battle of Kiev, guderian led his troops north to participate in the "typhoon offensive" against Moscow. His troops attacked Moscow.
At the gates, but in front of the powerful Soviet Red Army, "Blitzkrieg" lost its effectiveness.
The Russian winter is coming, and the German combat effectiveness is sharply reduced. Guderian concluded that it was hopeless to capture Moscow, so he strongly suggested.
The troops retreated to the winter line, rested and fought again, which annoyed Hitler and led to their expulsion from the army.
Later it was used by Hitler. He served as the director and chief of staff of armored forces, and was responsible for organizing and training new armored forces. Although he is
I hate Hitler, but I still refuse to join the "black band" that assassinated Hitler in July 1944. So, in July, Hitler gained trust again.
On the 22nd, he became the Chief of General Staff of the German army, but until the end of the war, he was unable to personally command the German armored forces he had created to gallop on the battlefield.
1March, 945, and was dismissed for advocating a truce. 10 was captured by American troops at his home in Munich in May, and guderian died in 1954.
He died of a heart attack at the age of 68.
Guderian was one of the few generals who dared to refute Hitler. He wrote Attention to Tanks.
Manstein
He is regarded as the best general of the German army in World War II. His strategic thinking is profound and terrible. Every battle he plans is almost a masterpiece, which always makes his opponent lose his mind and tremble with fear. He is an expert who can skillfully integrate the modern concept of mobility with the traditional thinking of mobile warfare, and he is also a real military genius.
1939 served as the chief of staff of the Southern Army Group, and joined the Polish campaign with Marshal Lundstedt.
1940, it was precisely because of his revision of the whole offensive plan against France that the main point was to concentrate almost all armored forces and move the main attack direction to the most unexpected direction of the enemy, that is, the forest-covered Ardennes Mountains, so that the German army defeated the allies of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Lu and other countries in World War I.
194 1 was appointed as the commander of the 56th armored army. At the beginning of the Soviet-German War, he set out from East Prussia and broke through 300-400 kilometers in four days. In September of the same year, he was appointed commander of the 1 1 army by Hitler, conquered the entire Crimean Peninsula and the famous fortress of Sevastopol, and repelled the Soviet offensive named after Stalin on the Kerch Peninsula along the Azov Sea, with only nearly 500,000 prisoners.
1August, 942, was dragged to the north to participate in the siege of Leningrad. In the anti-siege battle of Lake Ladoga, he defeated the Soviet Second Army and annihilated 7 infantry divisions, 6 infantry brigades and 4 armored brigades.
At the end of this year, because the Sixth Army was surrounded in Stalingrad, he was ordered to command the newly established "Don River" army group to carry out rescue, but Hitler failed because he insisted on the order. According to his strategy, it is very likely that the entire Soviet army around Stalingrad (which is almost all the assets of the Soviet army) will be wiped out by a huge rotary offensive in this battle. In the end, this grand plan became a tactical (not strategic) victory because of blind sacrifice. This is the outstanding "Kharkov counterattack campaign" in military history. He attacked the rolling Soviet flank with extremely scattered forces (1 8 in terms of the number of divisions). Within a week, the Soviet troops who had originally attacked the southwest fled the North Donets River in disorder. So he continued to attack the Soviet rear to the north and recaptured Kharkov, which was recovered by the Soviet army earlier-one of the most direct effects of this campaign was to postpone the end of the war for two years. Because of this, he won the Iron Cross of the Oak class.
Later, he served as the commander of the German Southern Army Group and continued to command the aborted Battle of Kursk and a series of difficult defensive wars. In the Battle of Kursk, he used several elite armored forces sparingly, which made the Soviet army suffer heavy losses in the attack of prokhorov Card on July 12.
1in March, 944, he was dismissed from the command post because of his failure in commanding at the front line and was incorporated into the reserve force.
Later, because Hitler couldn't stand his outspoken advice, he was removed from the military. Although he was awarded the "Sword" Iron Cross in recognition of his achievements, Hitler never used him again.
Manstein not only personally commanded countless battles with superb command art, but also participated in the formulation of many German invasion plans, showing the talent of an outstanding strategist.
Rommel (not much introduction, high visibility. )
This German armored soldier was a famous man of the hour in the First World War. After the war, the Federal Republic of Germany named the streets and barracks of warships after him, and the United States also filmed the film "Desert Fox" which praised him. An American historian believes that Rommel's legendary factors are firstly his short stature, foxy and secretive smile, but mainly his superb military command art when commanding armored forces in the desert of North Africa, which often caught his opponents off guard. Many countries in the world have studied and introduced his works, and his military command art and the characteristics of using troops have a wide influence in the military field.
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Carl. Karl doenitz, Deng Nici
In the middle of the night, in the empty Shan Ye, a group of wild wolves are frantically chasing their prey, their eyes are shining with gloomy green light, and yet the shrill cries are heartfelt. "Wolf!" The wolves mentioned here are not in Shan Ye, but at sea. Its owner is Karl von Deng Nici.
A prisoner of war unwilling to remain silent.
After World War I, the German prison camp in Dresden, England, cheered. Prisoners of war know that the day of reunion with their relatives is not far away. However, the excitement failed to impress Captain Deng Nici, who remained silent as usual. After reading the newspaper that published the armistice news, he still put it down. Deng Nici was captured on the eve of the war. 19181kloc-0/At the beginning of October, he commanded his submarine to attack a British convoy in the Mediterranean Sea off Malta. After success, the submarine broke down and just entered the middle of the convoy when it floated up. It was too late to make an emergency dive, and heavy gunfire penetrated the hull. Without saying a word, he was taken to the destroyer by British sailors armed with rifles. "Is there any way to defeat Britain from the sea?" During his lonely and boring career as a prisoner of war that year, Deng Nici thought about this question. The Anglo-German war would break out again, and he realized it at that time. The surface fleet is not an opponent, and the submarine alone is also more negative than less against the tightly escorted transport fleet, as evidenced by his capture. Finally, his frowning brows slowly spread out. Shortly after the war, Deng Nici returned to Germany and rejoined the navy.
"Have you ever seen a wolf? Have you ever seen wolves bite each other? " There are many wolves in the forest of Mount Arthas. Deng Nici, who loves hunting, is used to it. Maybe he got inspiration from here. Deng Nici was patient with the new members of the German submarine force. "Their submarines must be in groups, one after another, in order to break the British navigation system!"
1935, Hitler was sharpening his knife and preparing for war, and the German submarine force was reorganized. Deng Nici served as the detachment leader of this submarine detachment named after the famous submarine hero Wittingen in World War I, and at this time he began to put the submarine "Wolf Warriors Tactics" planned for many years into training. By the time the war broke out in September, 1939, the "wolf tactics" had been perfect.
Deng Nici has a wolf-like character, silent and cruel, and strong-willed. In World War II, the "wolves" he released ravaged the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea and almost ruined the fate of the British Empire. British Prime Minister Churchill still wrote in his post-war memoirs: "In the war, the only thing that really scared me was the threat of German submarines!"
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