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Guderian, Heinz (Wilhelm)
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[guderian]
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| German soldier, born in Kulm, SEC Germany. A leading tank expert and exponent of the Blitzkrieg theory, he created the panzer armies which overran Poland in 1939 and France in 1940. He commanded the 2nd Panzer Group in Army Group Centre under Bock in the attack on the USSR in June 1941. Recalled after the failure to take Moscow, he was chief of general staff in 1944, and after the anti-Hitler plot in the same year was made commander on the Eastern Front. He wrote Panzer Leader (1952). |
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