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Panzerwaffe
Panzerwaffe (German for "Armored Force") refers to a command within the German Wehrmacht responsible for the affairs of panzer and motorized forces shortly before and during the Second World War. It was originally known as Schnelltruppen ("Fast Troops"), a motorized command established in the Reichswehr following the First World War, redesignated as Panzerwaffe in 1936 by Generalleutnant Heinz Guderian.
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