Blitzkrieg - Lightning War?
In this book of 473 pages Karl-Heinz Frieser of Militärgesichtliges Forschungsamt - the Official German Armed Forces Department of Military History - carefully shows that the first war fought to a special Blitzkrieg concept was against the Soviet Union in 1941.
The first trials with air-ground cooperation was to be held in Grafenwöhr Training Area 21st - 25th August 1939, but cancelled due to the oncoming war.
So in September 1939 the Germans had no new Blitzkrieg tactics.
Another old myth has been falsified.
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