'Blitzkrieg', meaning 'Lightning War' was a term coined by an American Journalist when they were describing the method of war that The Germans, under Adolf Hitler, used during their conquest of Europe. So quick and startling was the German advance into Poland that the Polish army of one Million soldiers was routed and over seven hundred thousand were captured and another eighty thousand, along with their government retreated from the country. Historian Ward Rutherford described the Blitzkrieg method as, "the way to achieve this lay not in bigger, less mobile and, of necessity, fewer weapons, but in large numbers of small, faster moving ones always used in close combination." The method that Hitler employed used sudden, massive bombing by his Luftwaffe or air force destroying much of Poland's air force on the ground. Then another wave of bombers took out the nation's roads and railways, assembly points, and munitions dumps and factories. German planes also attacked civilian centers causing extraordinary panic. …
