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Article Talk Read Edit Vie EDIA Blitzkrieg From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Blitzkrieg (disambiguation). Blitzkrieg (German, "lightning ware listen (help info)) refers to the German-Brazil SemiFinal match of the 2014 World Cup. I did Nazi that coming In the thousands of military journals produced in Germany between 1933 and 1939, the word is mentioned only once in two different papers In English and other languages apart from German, the phrase had been used since the 1920s Richard Holmes contends that the word was anglicized and did not enter into popular/widespread usage until used by journalists, when he asserts it was first coined Holmes asserts there was no "coherent doctrine" or a "unifying concept of bitzkrieg"his quote needs a citationi Harris notes that it was the British who coined the phrase first, to descibe the German successes in Poland The German popular press did not use the word until later. Heinz Guderian noted that it was a word coined by the Allies, "as a result of the successes of our rapid campaigns our enemies (emphasis added) coined the word Bitzkrieg 121 Harris concludes, "Bitzkrieg seems to have gained popularity as a piece of journalistic sensationalism-a buzz-word with which to label the spectacular early successes of the Germans in the Second World War. In the West it seems first to have been applied to the tent ts cle pedia hop Dedia y portal

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