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Although renowned for being one of the most innovative military powers in Europe, the invention of tanks caught the German Empire completely by surprise during the Great War. After witnessing the success of the early British Mark I tanks, the Kaiser’s finest engineers rushed the lumbering 18-crew A7V into production, only to be upstaged by the seemingly endless swarm of tiny 2-man Renault FTs unleashed by the French in 1917. Lacking the time or resources to keep up with the progress of technology, Germany had to make do with its 20 A7V’s and a few dozen captured British tanks until it was forced to surrender in 1918. But even as the ink on the Versailles Treaty was drying, forward-thinking officers of the new Weimar Republic were pondering what a new age of mechanized warfare might look like.
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An article by Marko Pantelic
Script by Jeran Korak
Narrated by Wood
Edited by Brancovich
Sound edited by Wood
Portuguese subtitle translations courtesy of FAL
Russian subtitles were provided by Vasinev Vladislav