German World War Two Tanks

If there had been any doubt towards the role tanks would play in warfare after World War One, they were well and truly crushed when the mechanized German army rolled, practically unopposed, across Europe and forced the British Expeditionary Force back across the English Channel.

Where the allies had been skeptical, or unwilling to spend time and money on tank development during the 1930's, Germany had fully embraced the concept so by the start of WWII  they had the most advanced mechanized army the world had ever seen. The effectiveness of the panzer tank had left the allies stumbling over themselves trying to develop a worthy opponent to the German panzers, which had ten years of development behind them.

In fact, the technology and craftsmanship of the German panzers was never really matched during WWII, and they were only overcome by the industrial might of America and Russia and their ability to create greater quantities of lesser-quality tanks that could swarm and overwhelm the better-made German panzers.

(Weights are in long tons and kilograms.)