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unusual facts about Sd.Kfz. 7


Sd.Kfz. 7

7 features in much German wartime propaganda footage, contributing to the myth of the mechanized Blitzkrieg.


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1966 all were sold to the highest bidders at Kalix airfield and they ended up in he villages surrounding Kalix and Boden.

When war broke out in September 1939, Sweden maintained a policy of neutrality. To support this policy a rapid upgrade of aging military equipment was necessary.

The halftracks were would be used in sub-arctic climate and all twelve Demags were, in the autumn of 1940, delivered along with twelve guns to the 8th Artillery regiment (A8) in the northern city of Boden, close to the arctic -circle.

SS Panzer Brigade Gross

On 28 August the Brigade was moved to Estonia and remained in the area of Lake Peipus until early September By 12 September the Brigade's panzer battalion now counted eight Panzer III, one Panzer IV, one Panzer IV, three Panther tanks, one StuG and 17 Sd.Kfz. 251.


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