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Christi-kampfwagen

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Post by Jeff Leach » 28 Jul 2014, 16:02

I am going through a document detailing the employment of Pz.Jäg.Abt.(Sfl.) 670 during July and early August 1941. It say, "einen schweren russ.Kampfwagen (Christi-Kampfwagen)" and it must be a reference to a T34. Has anyone else seen the T34 called this? They are usually just referred to as 'Soviet heavy tanks' (KV-1 and KV-2 as 'Soviet heaviest tanks').

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Post by GregSingh » 29 Jul 2014, 09:10

BT were also called Christie (eg. Guderian in Panzer Leader or German reports about captured Soviet vehicles (Jentz).
But in this case we have "schweren", so it was most likely T-34, as BT was only 13t...


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