Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "Book Review: French Tanks of the Great War" video.

  1. Filipe Amaral : ln internet i watch also jmantime, military history visualized (not visualized), metatron, scholagladiatora, skallagrim, shadiversity. I read three german military history magazines and two german arms magazines. I have vistited a lot of castles( palaces) and museums with arms collections. And on my holliday trips and hikingtours i visit the relicts of all kind of fortifications, in my home region there sre a lot of medival castle ruins and town walls, some Renaissance fortress ruins, some fortified graveyards, some celtic oppidi ( Heidengraben, Heuneburg and the Ipf) and a few kilometers away are the relicts ot the roman border fortification ,Limes'. So in the last four decades i have got a lot of military history knowledge. I personally prefer the military history before 1900. When you do so in Germany, you have rather few problems, but when you are interessted in military history of the second world war, you are soon in trouble, when you are not very carefull!
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  2. I am a german man, only using my girlfriend's account. Mr. Guderian was not the inventor of the german tank tactics. He was only this one, who took together existing ideas to a useable and , for some time, succesfull way of fighting. There had also been a number of other german officers from different branches of the Reichswehr, and later Wehrmacht, who also had ideas of motoriced warfare. These other officers supported Guderian with ideas and influence of their high ranks. Also, what is described in other comments, he (Guderian) was influenced from foreign, mostly british ideas. At the end one point about the german Blitzkrieg concept. This was not a mysterious, secret wonderconcept, it was, very simplified, the old prussian ,Kampf der verbundenen Waffen' extended with planes and tanks. One last word: The Tankgewehr is in my eyes only a newmade wallgun.
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  3. Matthew Dobbs: When you read my comment to another gentleman, you know the roots of my knowledge. Some months ago, in one of the military history magazins i read, Guderian and the other officers had been a large article. I don't want to have an academic level of knowledge, so i do not read original sources/documents. But when i have the possibility to speak with historians, museum directors etc., they admit, that i have an overeverage knowledge about military and nonmilitary history. Have a good time!
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