I agree, the T-34 was the best tank until the M-1 Abrams kissed the Iraqi battlefield. Things may be completely different now.
That was also the headline in huge letters in the commie newspapers:
‘The Tigers Are Burning!’
Yep. Sloped armor. Same problem as the Sherman though, not enough firepower but like the Sherman there lots and lots of them.
The Porsche ‘Elephant’ was a disaster. No machineguns and vulnerable to infantry.
The Allies didn’t really have ‘tank fighting’ tanks until later in the war, thanks in part to Patton who saw tanks as auxiliary to infantry. We finally got a a good tank with sloped armor with the high-velocity, auto-level gun late in the war. So we saw debacles like the British at Bocers-Village (sp?).
The krauts understood armor, firepower and mobility, but they never had enough of them, and what they had was usually over-engineered and subject to breakdown, particularly their ‘answer’ to the T-34: the Panther.
After ‘Zitadel’ they were done.