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No, the shield is not the "Wunderwaffe" that allowed Hitler's troops invaded the Netherlands, Belgium and France in spring 1940, provides the German daily Die Welt, determined to tackle this he considers a "myth" of the Second World War, became wrongly according to him "the symbol of the defeat of France."
"Models Panzer I and Panzer II were in fact exercise vehicles, at best makeshift solutions. Their armor had a maximum thickness of between 13 and 14.5 millimeters, they were equipped with machine guns. [...]
Facing the British armored Matilda Mark II, equipped with a shield 80 millimeters thick, the German panzers were therefore not weight. And the low range of the guns of the German models III and IV allowed them to attack the French armored SOMUA such as Char and B (respectively 20 and 32 millimeters thick armor) than small distance.
"Just on the western front, the French and the British had concentrated more than 3,200 tanks and 1,000 others were ready for use in the backcountry. The Wehrmacht had her than 2,800. "
In January 2015, on the occasion of the release in Germany of US-China Fury film, in which Brad Pitt plays the role of a sergeant of the second armored division of the US Army during the German campaign, Die Welt recovering already questioning the fearsome reputation of the "Tiger-Panzer", another German snapbacks tank model used by the Wehrmacht from 1943:
"With a weight of 57 tons, a screen up to 110 millimeters thick and a precision of 8.8 cm cannon, the Tiger was the most advanced paper models that all Soviet, American and British. But its complicated structure, which was never refined, made this combat vehicle was often stopped due to technical problems because we had cut the engine. "
According to the newspaper, if the German armored divisions have prevailed over those of the Allies, it is simply because the leaders of German divisions had more room to maneuver than their enemies. They were not entirely subject to orders transmitted by radio from a distant command post but had the freedom snapbacks to take depending on the situation on the ground initiatives, advance Die Welt:
"The French historian Marc Bloch saw in this" methodical opportunism "of Hitler and his generals because snapbacks of the" strange defeat snapbacks "of the Allies so well equipped. But the dictator and his new heroes also shared another conviction. Be ready to tempt all out "
wrote 05/21/2015 at 22 h 11
There are the theories developed by Col. Karl-Heinz Frieser in "The Myth of Blitzkrieg: The Western Campaign 1940". With the same exaggerations about the alleged inferiority German technical (automatic snapbacks 20 mm gun Pz II called the "machine gun"; the Czechoslovak origin gear with their excellent play of 47 mm not mentioned) and number (counting in the total combined all that moldy FT ancient deposits in French, which have no equivalent in Germany because of the Treaty of Versailles). It mentions the Matilda Mk II which only 23 copies were involved in the 1940 campaign; but not that other British armor were very poorly protected. In short, it is a little support.
There were more tanks, and better, in the French army. The scales tipped in favor of Germans because of the Luftwaffe, especially Stukas. snapbacks These dive bombers, yet very vulnerable, have never been bothered by the French air force that could break down easily but was surprisingly absent from the fighting snapbacks in the Ardennes 40. Result: The Stukas, very accurate in their laché bombs, could thus destroying many Allied tanks and allow the Wehrmacht to win ..
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