![]() The task given to the newly formed Corps was to smash the Polish opposition in the ‘Polish Corridor’ leading Northto the port-city of ‘Danzig’, which was defended by three Polish Infantry Divisions and a Cavalry Brigade. Guderian was then given command of ‘19 Army Corps’ consisting of one Pz Div & two Mot Divisions and placed under the ‘German 4 th Army’ commanded by Gen von Kluge. WW II had started on 1 st Sep 1939 because Hitler was wrongly advised by Ribbentrop that France & Britain would not declare War against Germany, if Poland was attacked. 1 tank general, the kind of officer (Hitler hoped) who would not break no matter how sure was ‘defeat’, and how insurmountable the attempts of the Nazi Party high command, to stave it off. ![]() He was neither an all-out Nazi nor an old-line Prussian officer, but an adroit military tactician. Hitler had chosen the June 1888 born Col Gen Heinz Guderian 1 who was doing the duties of Inspector General of Panzer Troops, as the new Chief of the Army General Staff, after the failed Plot to assassinate him on 22 July 1944, at ‘Berchtesgarden’ in East Prussia.
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