What are the 'fast troops' of Hitler's referring to?

Answer 1

The Blitzkreig or 'lighting attack'. The elite soldiers were in the SS, commonly reffered to as 'Storm Troopers'

"Blitzkrieg (help·info) (German, literally lightning war or flash war) is a popular name for an offensive operational-level military doctrine which involves an initial bombardment followed by employment of mobile forces attacking with speed and surprise to prevent an enemy from implementing a coherent defense. The founding principles of these types of operations were developed in the 19th Century by various nations, and adapted in the years after World War I, largely by the German Wehrmacht, to incorporate modern weapons and vehicles as a method to help prevent trench warfare and linear warfare in future conflicts. The first practical implementations of these concepts coupled with modern technology were instituted by the Wehrmacht in the opening battles of World War II. While operations in Poland were rather conventional, subsequent battles — particularly the invasions of France, The Netherlands and initial operations in the Soviet Union — were effective owing to surprise penetrations, general enemy unpreparedness and an inability to react swiftly enough to German offensive operations. That the German Army quickly defeated numerically and technically superior enemies in France led many analysts to believe that a new system of warfare had been invented.

The generally accepted definition of blitzkrieg operations include the use of maneuver rather than attrition to defeat an opponent, and describe operations using combined arms concentration of mobile assets at a focal point, armour closely supported by mobile infantry, artillery and close air support assets. These tactics required the development of specialized support vehicles, new methods of communication, new tactics, and an effective decentralized command structure. Broadly speaking, blitzkrieg operations required the development of mechanized infantry, self-propelled artillery and engineering assets that could maintain the rate of advance of the tanks. German forces avoided direct combat in favor of interrupting an enemy's communications, decision-making, logistics and of reducing morale. In combat, blitzkrieg left little choice for the slower defending forces but to clump into defensive pockets that were encircled and then destroyed by following German infantry.

Tactically speaking, once the weakest area of defence is identified, tactical bombers would strike at logistical, communication, and supply targets while field and self-propelled artillery units struck at defence installations. These bombardments were then pre-ceded by probing attacks and smoke screens to conceal the main armoured spearhead, and once the main armoured force broke through the designated strike area, motorized infantry would then fan out behind the armoured spearhead to capture or destroy any enemy forces encircled by panzer and mechanized infantry units or tactically important objectives like bridges, airfields, supply depots, rail yards, naval ports, anti-aircraft batteries, and radar installations."

Answer 2

I'm not sure of you mean the term used for "Lightening War"..which has been pointed out as "Blitzkrieg". The statement made by the first fellow re: "Storm Troops" is incorrect.

Storm Troopers...also known as the SA or the Brownshirts were the thug army that was commanded by Ernst Rohm. A former army officer during WW1 and a homosexual. The Storm Troops were used by Hitler to terrorize the populace and the persecution of the Jews during the rise of the Nazi Party. They were made up for the most part of thugs and criminals and brutal, sadistic goons who took great pleasure in street fighting, assaults and murder. Hitler considered them nothing more than "boys playing at soldier" because they lacked so much discipline. Hence the SS (Schulzstaffel or Protective Service) run by Heinrich Himmler came into being. They were professional troops who were disciplined, met the Aryan standards of the party and were easily identifiable by their black uniforms and the twin ruints or lightening bolts on their collar and helmuts as well as some units bearing a skull and crossbones on the uniform caps or collar tabs.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Spot on on 'fast troops' = blitkereig + motorised infantry.

Storm troopers were also named for special attack troops armed with flame throwers in WW1.

Answer 5

Might be the way they attacked. Think it was called Blitzkrieg (means Lightning Fast)

Answer 6

The Panzer(armoured) forces because of their lightning moves by bypassing strong points & smashing through enemy infantry & weak armour resistence.

Answer 7

His mobile artillery and tank corps and his airforce in 1939 in Poland