German Tanks used gasoline for fuel. not diesel. Only the Russians used diesel engines exclusively in their tanks.
We made a diesel engine variant of the Sherman. Half of these were sent to the Soviets and the remainder went to the U.S. Marine Corp. the U.S. Army Sherman’s were all gasoline powered.
Thank you for the correction; I picked up a wrong impression from the movie Patton (not that that would ever happen </sarcasm> ).Makes more sense; I always wondered how Hitler hoped to use captured US gasoline to power his thrust into the Bulge if his tanks were diesels. OTOH I wonder why Shermans were so notorious for catching fire compared to the German models - except of course for the fact that they were much better armored.