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Wwii Battle Force: Panzer Battles [VHS]

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I got that video along with other ww2 video i ordered from amazon such as the battle of the bulge/dunkirk/george stevens d-day to berlin and d-day:assault on fotress europe. But that video was far the best from all...The most of the content is about the eastern front,but other stuff is included as well(balkan,afrika etc etc).In particular every important battle where panzers played an important role in...But you will see not only panzers and stuff in the movie but also a lot of warscenes with soldiers and other stuff... It is one of the best world war 2 videos i own because it features some very nice and fitting background music and the sound is extrememly good for a documentation...Sometimes i thought it was stereo when some artillerie was firing...Really great video.And the authors really took always exactly fitting scenes to the soundtracks...Get it!!!

It disappointed and it surprised. It was not, as I expected, a study of primarily Panzer development and tactical employment. There was extensive footage of British and Russian propaganda films. Heinz Guderian, the Father of Blitzkrieg and its staunchest supporter, was nowhere to be seen in this video. There also was at times a pretty obvious attempt to jump on the Allied bandwagon ("Egypt itself was menaced by the German war machine.") That being said, the video did show a lot of footage I had never seen before: from certain scenes of the Afrika Korps in action to close-up shots of the battle-weary Panzertruppe during the Battle of Kursk. There were occasional shots of lesser-seen tanks, such as the Panzerkampfwagen V, the "Panther", and the Jagdpanther Sdkfz 173, the "Ferdinand." The diagrams that accompanied this footage were helpful, but certainly were not comprehensive. The statistics presented did, however, make me feel an awesome respect for the average German fighting man and how, despite being incredibly outnumbered and undersupplied, he displayed his valiant fighting prowess and fought on. A mention of the Panzer Ace, Michael Wittman, and his remarkable success would have ended the video brilliantly. Alas!