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Cromwell including Panzer, Tiger, Sturmgeschutze, Sturmartillerie and
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Tank Battles - El Alamein
to the Volga.
Hitlers trail to glory was blazed by Panzers. In
Poland, Western Europe, North Africa and Russia they repeatedly overcame
enormous odds by combining radio communications, tanks and Stuka dive-bombers
to wage Blitzkrieg - lightning war. Using such revolutionary tactics,
commanders like Erwin Rommel rewrote the rules of tank warfare. However,
Rommels reverse at El Alamein was the first indication that the tide was
turning - and on the Eastern Front the German defeat at Kursk was to confirm
it. The Nazi armoured advance had seemed unstoppable - would Hitler
succeed where Napoleon himself had failed? The Panzer was a potent
symbol of German invincibility, but it was tactics - not technology, that
brought success. In mounting Operation Citadel against Kursk, Hitler set
up the greatest tank battle in history. He needed an unqualified triumph
to shine like a beacon and avenge the humiliation of Stalingrad.
He had reckoned without the Soviet T-34, built in half the time of a Panzer
and easier to maintain in inhospitable conditions. The German pincer
movement was finally mounted in early June 1943, but after a week both
Northern and Southern armies were at a standstill. Soviet Packfront
tactics - rockets and artillery, backed by tanks and infantry - proved a
costly but effective answer to Blitzkrieg. The worlds biggest ever tank
battle at Prokhorovka saw 1,500 tanks on the battlefield - but as the dust
settled, it was the Germans who licked their wounds. The action ground
on for 20 more weeks - but Citadel was doomed, and with it Hitlers chances of
remaining in Russia. Russia was the anvil on which the war machine was
broken and the Panzers had finally lost their myth of invincibility.
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The Panzer - The Story of Adolf Hitlers
Infamous Panzer Divisions
Battle tanks decided many battles during
the Second World War. Some 25,000 were produced in Germany and some
250,000 by the Allies during the conflict. Yet despite overwhelming
odds, the German Panzer Divisions became legendary. Just as a
cavalryman becomes attached to his horse, the Panzer crews still vividly
remember their mechanical mounts, the sounds they produced, the smell of
fuel and oil, the effects they had on the enemy and also the fact that the
Panzer could become a steel coffin in one blazing moment.
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The Great Tank Battle of Kursk
The great tank battle of Kursk took place in 1943,
when the Germans mounted a huge attack on the Soviet army with a force
of some 900,000 men, 2,700 of their most fearsome tanks, 10,000
artillery pieces and 2,000 aircraft. Codenamed Operation Citadel, the attack was Adolf
Hitlers plan to avenge the disaster that
befell the German 6th Army at Stalingrad
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Tiger - Heavy Tank Panzer VI.
There
can be few people who have never heard of the Tiger Tank - indeed, it has
come to be seen as one of the most potent symbols of German military power
in the Second World War. First committed to combat on the Eastern front
1942, the Tiger and its more formidable successor - the Tiger II,
Kingtiger - had, by the time of the defeat of Nazi Germany, generated an
awesome reputation that far belied the very small production run of fewer
than the 2000 built. The history of this legendary tank is told with
particular emphasis placed on combat footage of the Tiger in action, as
well as footage of the Ferdinand/Elefant on the Eastern front and the
Sturmtiger in action in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
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Panther - The Panzer V.
The
Panther was Germanys response to the shocking experience of encountering
the superior Soviet T-34 tank in the wake of the invasion of Russia in
1941. While drawing heavily on the design of the T-34, the Panther was
however a more sophisticated machine incorporating features that led many
to judge it to have been possibly the best designed tank of the war. This
programme covers not only evolution of the Panther design but through the
usage of combat footage illustrates the Panther in action on all fronts on
which the German Army fought from 1943 until 1945.
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Panzer IV Heavy Tank.
In
continuous production from 1936 until 1945, the Panzer IV was the armoured
workhorse of the German Army in the Second World War. Designed originally
as a heavy support tank for its stable mate, the lighter Mark III in the
Panzer divisions, it became one of the key instruments of the Blitzkrieg
victories, in the early war years. This programme traces the long history
of this most versatile of German tanks, and documents a combat career that
finally ended with the destruction of the last Mark IVs in Syrian service
by the Israeli Army on the Golan Heights in 1967.
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Panzer III Medium Tank.
The
Panzer III emerged as one of the formative images of German military
success in the newsreels produced by the Propaganda Ministry, documenting
the Blitzkrieg victories of the early war years. While proving adequate to
the task of countering allied armour in France and the Western desert, the
fateful encounter with the superior Soviet T-34 tank, following the
invasion of Russia in 1941, revealed the technical shortcomings of the
Panzer III. Its days as a battle tank were numbered, but it could still be
seen serving in the East as a command tank until 1944, and in other
secondary theatres such as Norway until the German surrender.
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Panzer I and II Light Tanks.
It
is one of the enduring myths of the Second World War, that the German
Blitzkrieg victories of the early years of the conflict were achieved by
their employment of a numerically and technologically superior tank force.
In reality, the defeat of Poland and France, Yugoslavia and Greece and the
remarkable victories in the opening stages of the Russian campaign and in
North Africa, were wrought by German tank divisions equipped, in the main,
with light tanks. The Panzer I weighed less than six tons, and was armed
with two machine guns and armour barely able to withstand the impact of
such weapons itself. It was with these light-weight workhorses, rather
than their heavier and more glamorous stable mates, that the Blitzkrieg
legend was forged.
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Stug III and IV Assault Guns.
One
of the most common images of German Armour in the combat footage taken by
Goebbels propaganda cameramen in the second half of the war in Europe, was
the Assault Gun or Sturmgeschutz (abbr. Stug) From 1942 onwards it was
increasingly employed as a tank destroyer, but its origin lay not in that
role but in a 1936 order for an armoured infantry support vehicle. The
frequency with which assault guns are filmed in action from 1944 onwards,
illustrates the manner to which this vehicle was employed as a substitute
for the Panzers. By the wars end assault gun units claimed the destruction
of no less than 20,000 allied tanks.
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Hummel Mobile Heavy Artillery.
From
1940 until wars end, German industry produced a plethora of self-propelled
weapons for the German Army. Whilst some of these were purposely designed,
others were extemporary affairs developed rapidly using available weapons
and chassis to serve the immediate need of the German Army in the field.
Those covered in this programme fall mainly into the categories of tank
destroyers and self-propelled artillery. This unique compilation of combat
footage of these vehicles will allow the viewer to gain an insight into
the variety and importance of such weapons to the German Army, up to its
defeat.
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German Military Vehicles inc. Armoured Cars and
Half Tracks.
Seemingly
present whenever German combat cameramen were filming, armoured cars and
half tracks were as vital to the German war machine as the Panzers.
Designed for the vital role of reconnaissance, they ranged ahead of the
advancing Panzer spearheads to assess enemy strengths and intentions.
Whether on four wheels or employing the more distinctive eight wheel
configuration, German armoured cars would be seen as much a symbol of the
Blitzkrieg as the Panzers themselves. This programme covers all these
vehicles and includes rare footage of the late war Puma armoured car in
Normandy.
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Panzer - Germanys Ultimate War Machine.
During
WW2, the need for capable and qualified crewmen to work with and maintain
the equipment became vital. In order to keep up with the demands of
warfare, soldiers and engineers were educated partly with training films.
This programme shows footage of the Tiger tanks during Operation Citadel,
as well as edited highlights of two German Army training films from late
1943 and mid 1944. Including two major military productions, the first of
these films was produced to show how to convert the Panther tank, allowing
it to successfully deal with the extensive Soviet defences like those it
encountered at its debut in Kursk. The second film from 1944, made for the
benefit of personnel serving in Sdkfz 251 Ds and the Panzerjaeger IV, may
well be the only footage of this type to survive the war. Finally there
are sequences showing such machines as the late Model Brummbaer which
round off this fascinating assemblage of unique footage of German armoured
fighting vehicles from the latter part of WW2.
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Guns of the Wehrmacht 1933 - 1945.
The
effectiveness of its artillery arm was one of the dominating features of
the German Army on the battlefields of the Western Front in the First
World War. Indeed, a specific requirement of the Treaty of Versailles was
that the new Reichswehr be denied heavy artillery. The expertise and
technology that had made the artillery arm so effective in that conflict
were never lost. So that when re-armament began in Germany 1933, following
the Nazi accession to power, the ground was already laid for the rapid
expansion of artillery of all types for the new Wehrmacht. While never
acquiring the glamour of the Panzer arm, the guns of the Wehrmacht were
nevertheless instrumental in serving the German Armed Forces in victory
and defeat through to 1945.
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Tiger!

The story of the Tiger, the most powerful tank of its time.
Run time 48mins. Order code SE012. Price
£13.99.
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Panzer Battles

The most infamous tank in history and its role during World
War II.
Run time 48mins. Order code SE002. Price
£13.99.
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Achtung Panzer! Boxed set of 3 Videos
This is the story of these awesome fighting
machines and how they came of age in World War Two. Featuring
advanced computer animation, the series travels the world to find the
last surviving examples of these steel monsters. Also featured is
rare archive footage from Allied and German sources plus previously
unseen photography from the battlefields of World War Two. Expert
comment and analysis by David Fletcher : author, military historian and
Keeper of the Tank Museum at Bovington, and Dr William Atwater of the US
Army Ordnance Museum at Maryland.
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Boxed set of 3 videos, or also available
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Boxed Set : Total run time 290mins. Order
code 525. Price £ 40
Individual videos priced £13.99 each,
run time 100 mins each
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Achtung Panzer : Steel Tigers

The famous Tiger tanks of the German Panzer forces were only
available at the hard pressed front in modest quantities, but this tiny
force forged a legend out of all proportion to its size. Also includes
Michael Wittman - Tiger Ace.
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Achtung Panzer : Strumgeschutze

The Assault Guns and Tank Hunters of the Panzer
Divisions played a vital role in the German army of World War Two.
Also includes On Campaign about the everyday lives of the tankmen of
World War II
Order Code AP02
Price £13.99
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Achtung Panzer : Sturmartillerie

The fast moving Panzer Grenadier formations of the
Blitkrieg needed a mobile, well armoured artillery presence to support
their lightning thrusts into Poland, France and Russia. They found
it in the form of Sturmartillerie. This is the story of the
developments which led to the Wespe, Hummel and the super heavy mortars
of the Karl series. Also includes Blitzkrieg about the tank in the
brutal tactic of Lightning War.
Order Code AP03
Price £13.99
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Steel Tigers

From the Tanks! series of videos.
Run time 48mins. Order code 384. Price
£13.99.
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Tigers in the Desert

From the Tanks! series of videos.
Run time 48mins. Order code 403. Price
£13.99.
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Blitzkrieg

From the Tanks! series of videos.
Run time 48mins. Order code 394. Price
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The Battles for Normandy

From the Tanks! series of videos.
Run time 48mins. Order code 393. Price
£13.99.
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The Battle of Kursk

From the Tanks! series of videos.
Run time 48mins. Order code 392. Price
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On Campaign

From the Tanks! series of videos.
Run time 48mins. Order code 391. Price
£13.99.
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The Fall of France

From the Tanks! series of videos.
Run time 48mins. Order code 390. Price
£13.99.
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The Ardennes Offensive

From the Tanks! series of videos.
Run time 48mins. Order code 389. Price
£13.99.
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Barbarossa

From the Tanks! series of videos.
Run time 48mins. Order code 388. Price
£13.99.
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Michael Wittman Tiger Ace

From the Tanks! series of videos.
Run time 48mins. Order code 387. Price
£13.99.
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Sturmartillerie

From the Tanks! series of videos.
Run time 48mins. Order code 386. Price
£13.99.
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Sturmgeschutze & Panzerjaeger

From the Tanks! series of videos.
Run time 48mins. Order code 385. Price
£13.99.
DVD
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Tanks! Boxed Set of 6 Videos

Includes The Fall of France, Tigers in the Desert,
Barbarossa, The Battle of Kursk, The Battles for Normandy and The
Ardennes Offensive.
Total run time 290mins. Order code 498. Price
£ 80
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