During the Great War, tanks in the German Army merely played an anecdotal role. Due to the Treaty of Versailles restrictions, the first armoured forces were not organised (secretly) until 1933.

The existence of the first three Panzerdivisionen of the new German Army was officially revealed in 1935. The armoured troops were an independent branch of the Army, with their command; this allowed the concentration of tanks in divisions so that units could have significant strategic deployment. General Heinz Guderian forged both words: Panzerwaffe to refer to the armoured force and Panzertruppen to identify the elite armoured troops which would conquer half of Europe in the following years.

The evolution of the camouflage schemes painted in tanks and vehicles of German armoured units was analysed in the book along with the organisation of the German units during WWI and WWII and the interwar period.

Language: English
Pages: 128
Physical: Hardcover

Contents

• The Great War and the Interwar period
  World War I
  1918, the Assault Tanks
  The Republic of Weimar

• Hitler, Ill Reich and the WWI
  1939-1940, first campaigns
  Afrikakorps
  1941, Barbarossa
  1942, re-organisation
  1943, re-structuration
  1944-1945, the end

• Camouflage schemes and units’ emblems
  7,7 cm leichte Feld Kanone 16 (FK 16), 1917
  A7V Sturmpanzerwagen 562 “Herkules”. Abt. 1, 1918
  Schwerer Kampfwagen (Beute). Abt. 12, 1918
  A7V Geländewagen.A.K.K.(R) 1111, 1918
  AV Sturmpanzerwagen 504 “Schnuck”. Abt. 2, 1918
  Schwerer Kampfwagen (Beute) 155. “Kokampf”, 1919
  Pz. Kpfw. I Ausf. A. Panzergruppe Drohne, 1936
  Sd.Kfz. 11, 1937
  Sd.Kfz. 232 (6 Rad). 2. Pz.Div., 1938
  Pz. Kpfw. 38(t) Ausf. A, 1939
  Pz. Kpfw. IV Ausf. B. 5. Pz.Div., 1939
  Pz. Kpfw. I Ausf. C. Pz.Rgt. 15, 1940
  Pz. Kpfw. I Ausf. B. 7. Pz.Div., 1940
  Sanitätspanzer. 4. Pz.Div., 1940
  StuG. III Ausf. B. Art.Lehr-Rgt., 1941-1942
  Horch Kfz. 15. P.K., 4. P2.Div., 1941
  P2. Kpfw. IV Ausf. E. Pz.Rgt. 31, 1942
  Sd.Kfz.7/1,1942
  Pz.Kpfw. III Ausf. L. Pz.Abt. 18, 1943
  P2. Kpfw. VI Tiger Ausf. E. schw. Pz.Jäg.Abt. 504, 1943
  Panzerjäger Tiger (P) Ferdinand. schw. Pz.Jäg. Abt. 654, 1943
  Pz. Kpfw. IV Ausf. H. Pz.Rgt. 3, 1944
  Grille Ausf. H, 1944
  Flakpanzer 38(t). 21. Pz.Div., 1944
  Kanonenwagen Sd.Kfz. 251 /9 Ausf. D. 5. SS-Pz.Div. Wiking
  Pz.Kpfw. VI Tiger Ausf. B. schw. Pz.Abt. 509, 1944
  Opel “Blitz” 3.6-365. 9. SS-Pz.Div. “Hohenstaufen 1944
  StuG. IV, 1944
  P2.Kpfw. V Panther Ausf. G, 1944
  Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf. J, 1944-45
  Panzer IV L/70 (V), 1945
  Pz.Kpfw. V Panther Ausf. G. LVI. Panzerkorps, 1945
  Sd.Kfz. 234/4. Pz.Div. “FHH’, 1945
  Marder III Ausf. M. Pz.Jäg.Abt. 346, 1945
  Jagdpanther, 1945
  Camouflage Schemes
  Emblems of units
  Key to vehicle identification
  Bibliography