The Ratte - The Biggest Tank Ever Designed
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Landkreuzer P1000 'Ratte'
The main feature of this new tank - its enormous size - surpassed everything made up to that point.
In comparison, even the heaviest of tanks would have seemed like toys.
The Ratte remained just another of Hitler’s great fantasies.
As German General Heinz Guderian wrote in his autobiography, “Hitler’s Fantasy led him into the realm of the gigantic”.
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Created by Daniel Turner
Script: Dejan Milivojevic
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Hahn, Fritz. Waffen Und Geheimwaffen Des Deutschen Heeres: 1933-1945. Ed. Dörfler Im Nebel-Verl., 1995.
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Guderian, Heinz. Erinnerungen eines Soldaten. Heidelberg: K. Vowinckel, 1950.
