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Introduction.
The creation of the motorized infantry and panzer grenadier arms came
as a direct consequence of General Guderian's revolutionary concept of
armored mobile warfare. This concept necessitated the introduction of
mobile infantry units which could not only accompany the panzer over difficult
terrain into action, but also provide both supportive fire power and safety
against enemy infantry and shell splinters under the cover of purposed
designed Schuetzenpanzerwagon (rifle armored vehicle). The initial development
of the German motorized rifleman branch was not only lorried rifleman,
but also motorcycle equipped rifleman. Because German did not have suitable
armored transport vehicles at that time so these rifle units were instituted
partly as motorcycle rifleman and partly as lorried rifleman. Thus the
motorcycle rifle units became one of the most original formation for German
motorized infantry and panzergrenadier. The formation of motorcycle rifle
units in German army was not only because the motorcycle industry in German
was the most predominant in the world which could provide motorcycle in
good quantity and quality for military use but also the excellent mobility
and flexibility of motorcycle rifle units performed in the battle field.
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