Talk:Beutepanzer

Anachronistic use of term

The Germans didn't use the term Panzer in WW1, they adopted the English term Tank (as proven e.g. by the Tankgewehr). So it is anachronistic to call captured WW1 tanks Beutepanzer. --KnightMove (talk) 07:11, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

I think the term is being applied retroactively in some sources, hence the article. But you're probably not wrong and this deserves more research. Regardless, what I would do is merge this into List of foreign vehicles used by Nazi Germany in World War II and put all the other content that wouldn't fit an article about German-captured vehicles during WW2 into other articles. Actually, no. This whole article is a mess. And the application of the term to Romanian/American/Soviet/French/etc.-captured vehicles has to be in error. The article is ostensibly about German-captured tanks and not just captured tanks generally.

ScribeYearling (talk) 07:36, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

T34 manufacture

It may be in the book but certainly isn't on the website reffed. Poking around the web it appears the germans might have finished a small number in Stalingrad but I'm not sure that really counts as manufacture.©Geni (talk) 07:11, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

New Osprey book on this subject

Beutepanzers of World War II Captured tanks and AFVs in German service by Steven J. Zaloga (Author) , Felipe Rodríguez (Illustrator) ISBN 9781472859389. A slim tome well illustrated I am reading on my Kindle... Roy Szweda (talk) 09:36, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Proposed merge of List of foreign vehicles used by Nazi Germany in World War II with Beutepanzer

Both pages seem to be about similar enough topics, one has more background information about Beutepanzers and other German-captured vehicles and how they affected the course of the war, and the other is a more exhaustive list. ScribeYearling (talk) 07:51, 23 October 2024 (UTC)