Poland.- Group of tanks standing in a meadow behind a village in Poland, September 1939. The tank in the foreground is a Panzer III Ausf. D with crews in turret. The picture was taken by Kriegsberichter Rascheit. Starting the Second World War since the invasion of Poland, Germany had only about a hundred Panzer III tanks, so in the Polish campaign and the battles with the French and British armies in the west, this tank was not so noticeable among the mass of more outdated tanks with which at that time it was armed tank forces Germany. But by the beginning of the eastern campaign of the Wehrmacht, the Pz.III had already become the main tank of the German army. On the Soviet borders on June 22, 1941, there were 965 Panzer III tanks!
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Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-318-0083-30
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