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| Subject: | Re: Post war German stuff |  |
| Date: | Aug 27, 2007 |
| From: | Gerald Owens | |
Most of the items have already been mentioned, though the Syrian Panzer IV's were acquired from France, not Spain (they had new French manufactured tires vulcanized onto the wheels). Some may have also come from Czech sources.
The British had VW put the Beetle into production postwar to equip occupation units (and put people to work). US Military Police had Beetles for occupation duty in 1948, as well. Not aware of military use of the Kubel postwar, though many turned up in civilian hands, or used by forest rangers and such. The Kettenkrad was also used by foresters and farmers.
The Czechs built Hetzers postwar for Switzerland, so technically, they weren't surplus German equipment. The Eastern allies of the Nazis had German equipment onhand until the Soviets got around to re-equipping them with T-34's.
My favorite use of "German" tanks was a troop of Hotchkiss H-39 light tanks that were captured in 1940 and converted to German use with modified cupolas and German blackout lights, used by the Germans to occupy France, then recaptured by the Free French, who repainted them Olive Drab and used them to occupy Germany in 1945-46. |
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 | Post war German stuff - Mats Isgren - Aug 25, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Mark Holoboski - Aug 26, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Juan Contreras - Aug 27, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Gazza Hollett - Aug 27, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Juan Palomino - Aug 27, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Chris Oldfield - Aug 27, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Andrew Herbert - Aug 27, 2007 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Chris Oldfield - Aug 28, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Arun Bauer - Aug 27, 2007 |
| . . . . . . British and Canadians too.. - W Bruce Clark - Aug 29, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Gerald Owens - Aug 27, 2007 |
| . . . . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Kim Eriksen - Aug 29, 2007 |
| . . . Re: Post war German stuff - Kim Eriksen - Aug 29, 2007 |
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