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Blitz --> Flash / Lightning
Krieg --> War
The word blitz was around long before 1939.
Just because doughnuts make you think of Dunkin does not mean that all doughnuts are Dunkin related. Doughnuts were here first and can't help that their name has been hijacked by Dunkin in your mind.
it's right that "Blitz" (lightning) and "Krieg" (war) was there before world war 2. BUT the reason for the german word "Blitz" to become english was the world war 2.
It's like the word "Downloaden" or many many other "Anglizismen" (Anglicism)
that we have in german language today. Download was english and there was "Herunterladen" in german. But because most of the IT inventions came from the US, words like downloaden, uploaden etc. made their way into german language.
sorry if I made grammar mistakes
I personally would really hate to see fast moving Poker called "Blitzpoker".