![* A personal view of the exhibit “Fascination and Terror” at the Nazi Documentation Center in Nuremberg ... a documentary glorification of the rise of Adolf Hitler ... from the "heroic" march in Munich 1923 to “Our Fuhrer would never allow [the gassing of innocent civilians] to happen.”](https://lewweinsteinauthorblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/nazi-documentation-center.jpg?resize=40%2C40){kind=small}
* Lew’s comments on “Fists of Steel”
Posted by Lew Weinstein on January 18, 2015
An excellent source book on illegal German rearmament, begun immediately after their defeat in WWI and clearly aimed at rebuilding an offensive war-making capability.
Consider this chilling description of a protocol for panzer attacks, developed in 1932 before Germany had the tanks to carry it out.
“Guderian envisioned a panzer thrust … led by reconnaissance troops on motorcycles probing for weak spots in the enemy line … reporting by radio to a command post … tanks would roll up for the breakthrough … once they penetrated they would keep going, plunging deep into enemy territory to strike at command, communication and supply centers … infantry would follow in trucks to secure the flanks as the tanks forged ahead … a sharp surgical strike at the foe’s central nervous system, designed to paralyze.”
Guderian led the panzer assault on Poland in 1939.
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