ABSTRACT
Liddell Hart's reputation as one who decisively influenced the proponents of armoured warfare in Germany during the interwar period has been marred and thrown into question by revelations that this reputation was largely self-propagated, and that to create it he actually exploited the plight of the German generals were after the Second World War, unscrupulously manipulating their evidence for his own ends. Liddell Hart's claim for influence on the Germans has lost credibility in the eyes of historians. At the very least it has become clear that he exaggerated this influence at the expense of Fuller and other British armour pioneers. At the same time, not only his significance but British influence as a whole on the evolution of the German Panzer arm, which was previously taken for granted, has now been called into question. And yet Liddell Hart's self-inflicted injury does not close the case, but merely opens it afresh.
