Comment on TIL that Hitler approved the construction of a supertank weighing 1,000 tons, over 100 feet long, with a main gun repurposed from the deck gun of a battleship.

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DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, called it “the finest tank in the world” and Heinz Guderian affirmed the T-34’s “vast superiority” over German tanks.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-34?wprov=sfla1

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