'Britzkrieg' - Did British Tactics Help Create Blitzkrieg?

Where did Blitzkrieg, the tactics that enabled Germany to conquer most of Europe in the first years of WW II come from?

Throughout the 1920s and into the ‘30s, the German Army was forbidden from developing tanks or experimenting with armoured warfare, but in the same period, the British Army was at the forefront of mechanization and the use of armour on the battlefield.

In this film, we will look at how British tacticians like JFC Fuller and Basil Liddell Hart developed a new and revolutionary way of warfighting and how these principles were taken up and used to devastating effect by the German Army in 1939 and 1940.

00:00 | Intro
02:14 | A New Form of Warfare
04:12 | Plan 1919
07:54 | New Technology - Better Tanks
14:01 | Trials and Tribulations
17:10 | Partly There
20:12 | Fuller's Children

This video features archive footage courtesy of British Pathé.

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