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Panzerwaffe, later also Panzertruppe (German for "Armoured Force", "Armoured Arm" or "Tank Force". Waffe : [combat] "arm" ) refers to a command within the Heer of the German Wehrmacht , responsible for the affairs of panzer (tank) and motorized forces shortly before and during the Second World War .
General Erwin Rommel and staff observe 7th Panzer Division practicing a river crossing at the Mosel, 1940. Following the completion of the invasion of Poland, the limited effectiveness of the light divisions caused the Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH; German High Command) to order the reorganization of the four light divisions into full panzer divisions.
However, he lost Guderian as his chief of staff; he was given command of a panzer division. Guderian's replacement, Friedrich Paulus, was not effective and the momentum of the development of the Panzerwaffe slowed as Lutz was much less energetic. [2] Lutz was retired from active duty in February 1938 after falling from Adolf Hitler's favour. [3]
A Panzer division was one of the armored (tank) divisions in the army of Nazi Germany during World War II.Panzer divisions were the key element of German success in the blitzkrieg operations of the early years of World War II.
Leopard 2A5s of the German Army (Heer). This article deals with the tanks (German: Panzer) serving in the German Army (Deutsches Heer) throughout history, such as the World War I tanks of the Imperial German Army, the interwar and World War II tanks of the Nazi German Wehrmacht, the Cold War tanks of the West German and East German Armies, all the way to the present day tanks of the Bundeswehr.
A panzer corps (German: Panzerkorps) was an armoured corps type in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II.The name was introduced in 1941, when the motorised corps (Armeekorps (mot) or AK(mot)) were renamed to panzer corps.
The Panzer-Lehr-Division (tank teaching division) was an elite German armoured division during World War II.It was formed in 1943 onwards from training and demonstration troops (Lehr = "teach") stationed in Germany, to provide additional armored strength for the anticipated Allied invasion of western Europe. [7]
In their Invasion of Poland during September 1939, German forces applied a narrow cooperation between large armoured units – of the Panzerwaffe and the Cavalry – and "active" infantry divisions to break the Polish defensive lines and pursue the defeated enemy forces. The more limited and dispersed Polish armoured units were quickly destroyed.