Given a chance would you kill baby Hitler?

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The Brits and French had at least three or four hundred more tanks, and in the S-35 a better tank than anything the Wehrmacht fielded -- but they split them up into brigade and regimental assignments. So the Germans hit with a solid armored spearhead, while the Allies defended with a soft, uncoordinated design.

That wasn't even the probllem. The French tanks still communicated with flag signals, whereas the Germans already had radio in every tank, so that they coulld communicate in the thick of battle. Also, there tactical and logistic differences between the allies and the Germans back then. The Germans had spent the last decade to form independent tank units, acting as a formidable strike force, whereas the allies still viewed them as infantery support units. They hadn't moved on since 1918. As far as logistics are concerned, the Germans developed a system to fuel up their tanks on the fly, whith mobile units, whereas the allies sticked to supply points.

All in all, the secret to the so called Blitzkrieg, lies in commbining infantery, tanks and air force, to strike as one, while acting independently. A lesson, the allies had yet to learn.