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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.
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
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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)
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.
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.
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 ...
Before the war began the German armed forces Heereswaffenamt compiled a list of known foreign equipment and assigned a unique number to each weapon. These weapons were called Fremdgerät or Beutegerät ("foreign device" or "captured device") and their technical details were recorded in a fourteen-volume set that was periodically updated.