German director Dennis Gansel remembers an incident that would ultimately inspire his war film The Tank (original German ...
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One tank. $258,000. Zero battles

In 1943, Imperial Japan purchased a German Tiger I tank — hoping to match America’s Sherman in the Pacific. But as the war ...
The conflicts on the Eastern Front of World War II were bloody and brutal. By 1943, the German army had lost millions of soldiers in Russia and resorted to using aging conscripts from World War I and ...