Soviet Wehrmacht tanks. Trophy armored vehicles Panzersvaffa. Dunov V.A.

July 1941, Leningrad Front. The motorized rifle battalion of the Red Army was counterattacked by five pancerwaffe tanks, three of which turned out to be trophy KV, repainted Germans in dark gray. They were not able to knock them out not only the “forty-core” and the 76-mm guns, but even the heavy 152 mm howitzers, and the Soviet infantry had to retreat...

This book was the first professional study of the combat use of Beutepanzer (trophy tanks). The publication is illustrated by hundreds of exclusive photographs that prove that in reality the Wehrmacht and SS troops used much more Soviet tanks than mentioned in official documents - the pictures often can see trophy armored vehicles, which is not listed in the combat schedule of German units. Trophy tanks and armored vehicles BA-10 under the Nazi flag participated in the assault on the Brest Fortress. In total, in the first weeks of the war, the Germans captured more than a thousand T-26, about five hundred BT, forty T-28 and up to fifty T-34 and sq. Subsequently, the Germans even introduced a reward for the capture of “thirty -four” - 40 bottles of alcohol. Soviet tanks with black crosses and swastika on board fought in the SS divisions, and in elite hunting units, and in special battles, and Vlasovites from the first to the last day of the Great Patriotic War (see photography of the German T-34-76, dated May 10, 1945!), From Moscow and Stalingrad to Warsaw, East Prussia, Berlin, Czechoslovakia, France, Italy, Yugoslavia.