Blitzkrieg Research Paper

The Luftwaffe was the name of the German Air Force in World War II, along with the tank units and infantry were all involved in Blitzkrieg. Blitzkrieg is translated to a Lightning War. The Luftwaffe was organized Hitler in 1935 to conduct the Blitzkrieg and bombings. Blitzkrieg was used to invade Poland. The Polish military tried to defend Poland but failed because they did not have the firepower or the speed that the Nazi’s had. The Nazi’s attacked one after another, then immediately after they send in tanks and then immediately after they sent in infantry to attack

According to feldgarui “The German Luftwaffe, or airforce, was formed in May of 1935”. (http://www.feldgrau.com/WW2-German-Luftwaffe-Airforce ). According to history channel “With the rise of the Nazi Party and the repudiation of the Versailles Treaty, the Luftwaffe was officially established on 26 February 1935”.
The Luftwaffe was created after trench warfare was ineffective. Trench warfare is where each side has a trench and the space between your trench and the enemy's trench is called “no man’s land”. The idea was that they would fight and shoot each other until one side took over the other’s trench. However this did not work because once they left their trenches they were mowed down by machine guns, thousands of bodies bullet ridden, it was a stalemate the whole battle, no one could take over the trench until one side called in airstrikes on the other and they could move up after 90% of them were dead or injured and could not fight. The trench warfare compares to Normandy because the Americans called in airstrikes one after the other and on and on until the Germans were killed in the pill boxes shooting the MG 42, the fastest firing machine gun in the world. It shot one thousand rounds per minute and had to have water filtered through it to cool it