Stormtroopers (Imperial Germany)

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Stormtroopers (German: Sturmtruppen or Stoßtruppen) were the only elite shock troops of the Imperial German Army (Deutsches Heer) that specialized in commando-style raids, infiltrating the trenches and wiping out the enemy quickly, maneuver warfare, reconnaissance, and shock tactics. In the last years of World War I, Stoßtruppen ('shock troopers' or 'shove troopers') were trained to use infiltration tactics –part of the Germans' improved method of attack on enemy trench warfare. The German Empire entered the war certain that the conflict would be won in the course of great military campaigns, thus relegating results obtained during individual clashes to the background; consequently the best officers, concentrated in the German General Staff, placed their attention on maneuver warfare and the rational exploitation of railways, rather than concentrating on the conduct of battles. This attitude made a direct contribution to operational victories of Germany in Russia, Romania, Serbia and Italy...

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