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and this is simply not true!!!
the german tanks , especially in the early days of war, were even worst than the tanks of other armies!!
for example the french char de bataille could not be destroyed by the weak german pzIII with its 50mm kwk!!
(the panzerIII was the german main battle-tank in the western campaign)
on the eastern theatre, there was the t34 which had much more armour and firepower, than the pzIII and IV!!!
the advantage and the superiority of the german armies was the fact, that they used the panzerwaffe as weapon, which can fight on its own...
the germans had whole divisions just with tanks and motorised unf, so they could move fast and strike hard!!
the allieds used their tanks as support-weapon for the inf....
in the later days of the war, the german tanks became better...
the panzerV (panther) with its long 75mm gun could switch off a t34 at a range of 2000m...
the panzerVI (tiger) then had an 88mm gun...
this could destroy nearly every allied tank...
after that, came the king tiger.... also with an 88 gun, but with more armour than the tigerI!!
the main prob of the german panzerwaffe were the motorisation...
in every tank-class, the motor was too weak to move the tank right!!
sorry, i can`t describe this all in a better way, `cause of my english...
[ July 04, 2002, 12:25 PM: Message edited by: mclong ]