Blitzkrieg Manual PC

ocs.com http://www.replacementd INTRODUCTION & MULTIPLAYER 2 Germany sent expeditionary corps to Northern Africa to help Italian troops INTRODUCTION hold Libya and capture Egypt. At the beginning of the 1930’s, Germany was politically unstable. After losing In the summer of 1940, Hitler decided on the direction of Wehrmacht's next WWI, the country had become a democracy (Weimar Republic), but not for main strike - the Soviet Union. According to the "Barbarossa Plan" developed long: the world economic crisis of 1929 contributed to its quick demise. Adolf in July-December of 1940, Soviet Russia was to be defeated quickly by split- Hitler's National-Socialist movement, formerly insignificant, grew into the ting the Russian army's front into several sections (its main forces were con- biggest political party during the crisis. In January, 1933 Hitler became chan- centrated in the western part of the country). Powerful mobile groups of cellor of the Reich. He rose to power on the wave of nationalism caused by the German troops were to break deep into the Russian defenses, surround people's discontent with the outcome of WWI. After 1934, Germany, became Russian forces and destroy them. The immediate objective was to reach the a cruel dictatorship. The Hitler regime's popularity was based on economic Pskov - Smolensk - Kiev line, then advance to Leningrad, Moscow and boom fuelled by the end of the world crisis and by emerging of powerful mod- Donbass and capture them. Before the beginning of winter, German troops ern armaments industry sponsored by the government. In 1935, Germany were supposed to reach the Archangelsk - Volga - Astrakhan line and occupy began to re-build its regular army - Wehrmacht. Hitler's far-reaching plans most of the European territory of the Soviet Union. By June, 1941 three included domination of the whole of Europe, and in a more distant future - German army groups (181 divisions) were deployed along the Soviet borders establishing a new world order headed by Germany and its allies (Italy and from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea; they were supported by three Air Japan), eventually and turning Germany into the center of a worldwide colo- Forces. The objective was to advance on Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev. These nial empire. The first steps along this road included German-Italian interven- forces amounted to 5.5 million troops, 3,712 tanks, 47,260 cannons and 4,950 tion in Spain in 1936-39, anschluss of Austria in 1938 and the capture of aircraft. In the morning of June 22, after artillery preparation and massive Czechoslovakia at the beginning of 1939; the latter t…