Nazi Germany’s Panzer Corps Faked It ‘Til It Made It

War is Boring ^ | December 27, 2015 | David Axe

[Boogieman]

It’s just such an unimaginative language though. I mean, yes, technically you can describe gloves as “hand-shoes” and it is perfectly sensible, but I think any other nation would have figured that invention merited dreaming up a new word. The Germans couldn’t be bothered!

[redfreedom]

“Nations, as America is discovering, pay dearly for inept, narcissistic, dictatorial leadership.”

History repeats itself over and over.

[Squantos]

yep.......

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"It's like hitting them with tennis balls!"

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Ausgezeichnet!

My favorite German word.

[Rummyfan]

I thought Guderian literately wrote the book on tank warfare with Achtung Panzer.

[Tijeras_Slim]

"Military-industrial shadows"?

29 July 1922 A secret clause was added to the Russo-German Treaty of Rapallo, allowing German troops to train with heavy weapons, something disallowed by the Versailles Treaty, in Soviet territory. Aircraft training was also conducted.

[PAR35]

Sehr gut.

[PIF]

There’s a Russian word - I forget the word and meaning - but when the instructor wrote it out it in normal sized Russian script it went from one side of a 10 foot blackboard to the other 4.5 times.

The German one in the image would not even fill half the first line.

[Rummyfan]

Little known fact is that Jap tanks had good optics...

Funny thing is they make such good cameras....

[driftless2]

As scary and awesome as the Tiger was they should have put those resources into Panzer IV development

That notion has been made by other sources. Germany might have been able to prolong the war, but it still didn't have the resources to crank out arms/materiel like the Allies. Therefore many other experts, including Churchill, concluded Germany was defeated as soon as it declared war on the U.S.

[tumblindice]

Geschwindigkeitsbeschrankungen: speed limits.
A person who wears gloves to throw snowballs: Handschuhschneeballwerfer.
A man who pees sitting down: Sitzpinkler.

Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitatenhaupt-betriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft: the association for subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical services, of course/

[sparklite2]

And "don't touch" translates to nogefingerpoken.

[TalonDJ]

“While the Sherman tank couldn’t hold a candle to the German tanks”

Could not hold a candle too the very best of German tanks... which they had very few of. The tanks that the Germans actually had decent numbers of the Sherman was very competitive with. Combine that with APCR ammo and the stabilized gun and the Sherman was to be feared. Even by Tigers. The Sherman could flank it while firing on the move with its stabilized gun. If there were several of them a Tiger was in deep trouble. It had better hope the infantry anti tank guns kept it from getting flanked 8 ways to sunday.

Now if we had to go up against the late war Soviet tanks, in great numbers, with M4s... well that would have been bad. I think teaching them the right way to mass produce stuff was a big mistake. The lessons they learned with Lend Lease extended the Cold war at least 20 years.

[JeanLM]

German is fun...but complicated. Except the word “doch”. I miss not having it in English.

[TruthWillWin]

But when I hear Germans speak they sound like they are trying to clear their throats. Expect them to launch a luggie any time.

[Nuc 1.1]

Thanks!

[Axenolith]

I think you and Miliant are think of the V, the Panther...

[Axenolith]

Note to self, post quickly on FR tank threads ;-)

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I remember seeing a WWII documentary showing planes strafing German tanks. The planes would aim just under the front of the tank so the bullets would bounce up into the tank. Apparently it was an effective tactic against Tigers.

I actually found a short video clip on YouTube.