On Sun, 02 Nov 2014 18:14:03 -0500, Erinnerungen wrote:
>You're absolutely right-I'm reading a book called 'War Without
>Garlands' which tells the story of the German troops who were on the
>German-Russian border that morning when the war started. One part of
>the book tells the story of the Frontier tank battles and how shocked
>the German panzer and motorized troops were when they came across some
>of the Russian's super-heavy tanks which none of their anti-tank
>weapons could penetrate and it turned out that even the fabled 88 had
>trouble with at a distance. Below is a quote from the book:
>
>"Three days later Major Kielmansegg spoke to his 6th Division
>commander about the first encounter with heavy
>Soviet tanks at Rossiene.
>soberly:
>danger of a serious defeat. This was one
>and this was three days after the start of the war and all this
>because of the giant Soviet tanks.
>
>
And, in a way, they were lucky: the shock meeting the french B1 and
S35 had allready started the developement (albeight slow) of improved
armour and guns. Otherwise...
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