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I tried to find training times for various armies in WW2 but I could not find what I wanted.
There was some from the US but it was from Reddit and also seems to be not just training soldiers but building entire divisions. On the Germany army numerous sites would say that soldiers received 16 weeks of training and then went on to receive additional training but did not go into how long that took and if everybody did that.
But I found a postwar interview with a German colonel that said this.
> You have stressed the importance of decision-making ability among juniors. How do you train for this?
> You must let young officers make decisions. They must be given the chance to make on-the-spot decisions, through wargames, that is, terrain models and map exercises. When a young soldier makes a decision, you must praise him. He might not have found the perfect or right solution, but he made a decision. Praise at this point must be forthcoming. You must do this again and again. That is how we give our young officers and NCOs confidence.