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After the war, Guderian stayed in the reduced 100, 000-man German Army ( Reichswehr ) as a company commander in the 10th Jäger-Battalion.

Later he joined the Truppenamt (" Troop Office "), which was actually the Army's " General-Staff-in-waiting " ( an official General Staff was forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles ).

In 1927 Guderian was promoted to major and transferred to the Truppenamt group for Army transport and motorized tactics in Berlin.

This put him at the center of German development of armoured forces.

Guderian, who was fluent in both English and French studied the works of British maneuver warfare theorists J. F. C. Fuller and, debatably, B. H. Liddell Hart ; also the writings, interestingly enough, of the then-obscure Charles de Gaulle.

He translated these works into German.