Stormtroopers (Imperial Germany)

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.

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