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James H


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Just noticed a line in Schneider & Strasheim's Schiffer book, page 8:

"the term 'Sturmpanzerwagen' was applied to it only on September 22, 1918."

Can anyone expand on that? What name was applied before?



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They did not know what to call this new piece of technology. In many early WW1 German postcards of captured tanks they were called tankwagen but that was too English I suspect so someone came up with a descriptive term Armoured Assault Vehicle - Sturmpanzerwagen



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I'm sorry I can't remember where I cut this out from many many years ago.

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by the way: I just had a look into Steinhardts "Soldbuch" - all the stamps say "Sturmpanzer-Kraftwagen-Abteilung". This was May 1918.

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In Eyewitness Swinton describes his (and Dally Jones's) decision to coin the name "tank" (IMO, with more influence from d'Eyncourt than he acknowledges), and says in a footnote that the German equivalent is Schützengrabenvernichtungspanzerkraftwagen. One assumes it's tongue-in-cheek

We know that for a time the Germans also called them "tanks" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO5SRVy6jcY  http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/8666

So seeing this claim made me wonder when/how the Germans started using different expressions. Was there a directive about it?



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