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This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II.Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.
The following is a list of World War II German Firearms which includes German firearms, prototype firearms and captured foreign firearms used by the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS, Deutsches Heer, the Volkssturm and other military armed forces in World War II.
German vehicle type model numbers Series German English 200 Panzerwagen Armored cars: 300 Halbkettenfahrzeuge Half-tracks: 400 Gepanzerte Halbkettenfahrzeuge Armored half-tracks 600 Vollketten-Artilleriezugmaschinen Fully-tracked artillery tractors: 630 Gepanzerte Artilleriezugmaschinen Armored artillery tractors 700 Panzer Tanks: 800 Waffenträger
With the growing demands for Nazi memorabilia, many Jewish groups are disapproving the sale and purchase of Nazi products for leisure purposes. Others such as Haim Gertner, director of Israel's Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem, believe that some of the Nazi memorabilia are worth saving, claiming that anti-Semitic history shouldn't be forgotten. [5 ...
Like Swiss banks, American car companies deny helping the Nazi war machine or profiting from forced labor at their German subsidiaries during World War II. [9] "General Motors was far more important to the Nazi war machine than Switzerland," according to Bradford Snell. "The Nazis could have invaded Poland and Russia without Switzerland.
B "Königstiger" (Sd. Kfz.182) / VK4503(H) was a heavy tank in the later half of World War II. Armed with an 88 mm L/71 gun, the vehicle could perform well in the defensive role on the eastern and western fronts but was an expensive failure for Nazi Germany when used in an offensive role as a main battle tank. The Tiger II combined one of the ...
Volkswagen Kübelwagen (military version of the Volkswagen. A later version sold in the US as the Thing.) Volkswagen Schwimmwagen (amphibious variant of the Volkswagen Kübelwagen) VsKfz 617 (experimental designation for the Panzer I Ausf A) VsKfz 622 (experimental designation for the Panzer II Ausf a)
This article lists production figures for German armored fighting vehicles during the World War II era. Vehicles include tanks, self-propelled artillery, assault guns and tank destroyers. Where figures for production in 1939 are given, they refer to September 1939 onwards; that is, they only count wartime production.