Ep 116: David Stahel on Guderian and Hitler’s Panzer Generals

School of War · Mar 26, 2024 · 1h 3m

David Stahel, associate professor of history at the University of New South Wales and author of Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded, joins the show to talk about Heinz Guderian, the myth and the man.

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Times

• 01:38 Introduction

• 02:57 Diving into the letters

• 08:43 Debunking

• 15:30 A sinister figure

• 19:39 Achtung - Panzer!

• 27:37 Guderian the Nazi

• 33:42 Poland and France

• 45:49 Russia

• 50:50 Barbarossa bound to fail?

• 54:48 Guderian the chameleon

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