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Nazi Germany build many type of tanks because Hitler was preping for the Invasion of Poland and for an possible attack by Britain and France. Germany mainlt built Panzer Tanks, An division of Tanks. The Name "Panzer is short forPanzerkampfwagen, the Symbool of this was PzKpfw, All Panzer Tanks had an Number at the end from I - VIII depending on what tank it is. The tanks were ranked Light, Medium and Heavy Tanks. Also their were couple different types of Panzer SPGs and Tank Destroyers.The German Panzer tanks were the key point of how Germany lasted during the War for 6 years whiles fighting on 2-3 Fronts.
From 1934-1939, Germany was most commonly used the Light Tanks of the PzKpfw I and PzKpfw II. The Panzer I was equiped with 2 7.93MM MG13 Machine Guns. The Panzer II was equiped with 2cm Kwk30 Ausf.A-f or the KwK 38 Ausf.J-L.
From 1939 onwards, Germany mainly used the Medium Tanks as sprayheads, this was mostly effective during the Blitzkrieg campaigns because these type of tanks were Fast, Agile and Very Powerful. These tanks were the PzKpfw III, PzKpfw IV and the PzKpfw V Panther. The PzKpfw III was equiped with the 3.7 cm KwK 36 Ausf. A-F, 5 cm KwK 38 Ausf. F-J, 5 cm KwK 39 Ausf. J¹-M and the 7.5 cm KwK 37 Ausf. N. The PzKpfw IV was equiped with an 7.5cm KwK 40 L/48 main gun. The PzKpfw V Panter was equiped with 7.5cm KwK 42 L/70 main gun.
From 1942 Onwards, this's when Germany starts to bring in the big guns. The Heavy tanks Germany build were PzKpfw VIE and the PzKpfw VIB. The PzKpfw VIE was equiped with an 8.8cm KwK 36 L/56, 1,347 of these beasty tanks were built. The PzKpfw VIB was equiped with an 8.8cm Kwk 36 L/71, Only 492 of these were built.
Also, during the war Germany was planning to built 2 new Super Tanks called the PzKpfw VII Lowe and the PzKpfw VIII Maus. These tanks were designed to have an 12cm and and a 12.8cm Gun. Only 1 prototyped of the PzKpfw VIII MAUS was built. Thise tank was also aimed to go at 28mph and to have 28cm-42cm Armor. This tank was likely a few months away from starting to Manufacture and atleast 5 years intill their was 1,000 of these Monster tanks.
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