Panzerjäger im Fronteinsatz

Genre:.....................WWII Documentary
Language:.................German - No Subs
Picture:...................B&W/Colour
Runtime:..................1Hr11Mins
Size:........................699Mb

Antitank gunners were a military novelty at the beginning of the Second World War. They originated on account of the experiences during the First World War in which the allies with her new developed tanks had decided the military outcome. To be armed for future conflicts, the Wehrmacht created specially qualified units, the so-called antitank gunners. At first equipped with 3.7 cms paks, which were later substituted, because of stronger armour plating of enemy tanks during the course of the war, with heavy 7.5 and 8.8 cms guns. One of them, major Wilhelm Emmerling, filmed spectacular scenes on the west-front and east- front during operations, until his antitank-gunner regiment nr.126 got dissolved and became part of Heeresgruppe Kurland, by the end of the war.