What made the German army effective in the early part of World War Two?

Answer 1

Germany was strong During World War 2 because:

1. Germany had a Amazing Dictator Leader - Adolf Hitler

2. German Infanty and Tank Brigades were tought how to hunt down and kill the enimy with Pin Point Accuratcy - This can be proved because of the Panzer Divisions and the Luftwaffe.

3. Germany had Amazing War Strategies- Which were Blitz krieg and Power with Speed.

4. Germany had Italy as it Ally - Signed alliance with Italy and Germany

5. The Nazis used Propaganda on the German People - Indoctrinate German people

6. Before World War 2, Britain and France was scared to attack Germany - Allies were scared that Conflict between Germany and the Allies would cause WW2

7. Hitler was the Master or Black mailing - Threatened Countries with War and Invasions

8. Germany had Better military equipment - Panzer Tanks and 1000kg Bombs

All of these Had Major effects which made Germany strong and powerful during World War 2.

With the Military Germany had the best Tanks and Bombs, Airf Force, Infantry soldiers in the entire second world war.

Answer 2

German military advantages at start of WW2When Germany went to war in 1939 it had been actively and energetically preparing for war since the early autumn of 1933. Among many officers there was a feeling that at long last Germany was about to achieve the kind of status that was felt to be its due.

Few things breed success more than success itself. Germany had experienced a kind of 'triumphal procession' through the mid and late 1930s - complete end of reparations (1933), rearmament (1933 onwards), reintroduction of conscription (1935), return of the Saar to Germany (1935), remilitarization of the Rhineland (1936), union with Austria (1938), acquisition of the Sudetenland (1938), annexation of the 'rump' of the Czech Republic (March 1939). This last annexation gave German a large number of Czech tanks and military aircraft.

Moreover, when Britain and France declared war because of the invasion of Poland, they did nothing at all to help Poland.

From the German point of view, the 'crowning glory' was the very easy victory over France in 1940. To many, inside Germany and further afield, it seemed that Germany was invincible. What was less obvious was that all these successes were leading to over-confidence, arrogance and serious errors of judgment - and of course by persecuting the Jews and by moving towards the Holocaust, Germany was also ruining its reputation.

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Answer 3

The early German successes are attritutable to the fact that Germany had been rearming since 1933 and preparing for a war of aggression, while most other countries in Europe were either slow to rearm or did little in response. In addition, Germany had a long-standing tradition of military planning.

Answer 4

The reason the German army was so good was that the army was never defeated in WWI so a lot of the experienced soldiers were still in the army or had been recalled to duty during WWII. Also there is the German military tradition. Historically, Germans serve in the military, they call it conscription. Every male at the age of 18 had to serve for 2 years. This allowed the army to have a ready reserve of trained members. Lastly they were the best trained and equiped in 1939 when the war started. By the time the war ended, they were fighting for their own lives and their homes, which was a huge incentive to fight harder.

EDIT - Aside from the strong Prussian military traditions (as cited above), Hitler had some of the best Generals/Strategists/Tacticians available to him at the start of the war (1939). Men like Von Manstein, Guderian, Dönitz, Raus, Heinrici, Rommel, Model etc. The Allied initially had mediocre generals (at best). It took several years and a string of humiliating defeats before the generals that we all know and love today would finally emerge - people like Zhukov (Soviet), Montgomery (UK) and Patton (US). Even then, the German High Command only considered one of them to be a serious threat (Montgomery was never taken that seriously, and they only started noticing Patton after D-Day in 1944). Indeed, some would even postulate that had these German generals been left in charge of running the war, Germany could have either won or at least, sue for peace and kept a large chunk of Europe. Instead, Hitler got into arguments with them and started firing them left and right. Things got so bad that the Allied leadership may have even decided NOT to assassinate Hitler as he was doing such great job of destroying Germany!

Answer 5

WW 2 started when England and France declared war on Germany after its attack on Poland in 1939. But France had only prepared for defence and was nor willing, nor able to start an offensive operation against Germany. Britain's army was victim of years of budget cuts and what was left was mostly 'flying the flag' in its colonies thousands of miles away. The result was the so-called 'phony war'-period in which technically there was a war going on but no fighting was done.

Then after about 8 month's quiet, Germany started a blitz attack that caught the British still largely unprepared. Their small expeditionary army was stationed in France where it was thought safe behind France's defences. The French however were taken totally by surprise when the Germans simply went around their bunkers and forts by attacking through Luxembourg.

The Germans were then the first to deploy the 'shock and awe' techniques that would later be used by the USA in the Gulf wars, never giving the French and English any time or opportunity to regroup properly. The French quickly surrendered and were to remain out of the war and occupied by the Germans until after D-Day and the invasion fo France by the British and Americans four years later. The British army was chased back to England and Britain would continue to suffer defeats and setbacks. Only more than a year later Britain would have its first military successes against Germany in the campaign in North Africa.

Answer 6

Nazi Germany invaded Poland in October of 1939 and essentially Europe was taken by surprise. He had massed a war machine that was very mobile and it would move into an area very fast and take it.