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200 kg of Zimmerit were used on a Tiger, while a Panzer IV required 100 kg. The benzene in the mixture produced intense fires when it met the blowtorch. However. without this complex process, the Zimmerit coating would have taken 8 days to dry.	6
From left: the Swedish Untersturmführer Gunnar-Erik Eklöf (platoon commander in the Nordland’s famous Schwedenzug – 3./AA 11), the German SS-Sturmmann Muzzi Emmerich, and the Swedish Unterscharführer Markus Ledin.	5
Before becoming one of the most successful Ju 88 pilots and unit leaders in the Mediterranean with I. and II./LG 1, Joachim Helbig flew extensively in tne Western campaign in 1940 and mounted 80 sorties against England. He was awarded the Knight’s Cross on 24 November	5
Two German members of a Propaganda Kompagnie are filming at a bridge in a city. The cameraman points to the right. Both are wearing helmets. To their left is an alarm. Next to the bridge is a church tower. 1940	5
In summer 1944 Grand Admiral Dönitz visits a special attack unit. Here the commander of submarines is seen in conversation with combat divers during a demonstration. Standing to the left of the diver is Fritz Frauenheim, on the right edge of the photo Vizeadmiral Heye.	5
StuG III Ausf.F/8. Date and location unknown.	5
10 April 1940: four Luxembourg volunteers and two gendarmes guard the Moerstroff roadblock. They are (left to right): Soldats de classe Gros and Haas; Gendarme de 2e classe Schmitz; Brigadier (Gendarmerie corporal) Giwer; and Soldats de 2e classe Weidenhaupt and Ludwig.	5
American troops easily breached the “dragon’s teeth” antitank barriers of the Siegfried Line, Germany’s last man-made line of defense. Wolf passed through the line on his way to the Germany city of Cologne.	5
Kharkov, March 1943. At the centre Karl Reutlinger, 3rd Sturmgeschütz (SP) Section, LAH, to the right is Fritz Witt, commander 1st SS-Panzer Grenadier Regiment. Photo and caption featured in Obedient Unto Death: A Panzer-Grenadier of the Leibstandarte- SS Adolf Hitler Reports by Werner Kindler	5
April 1945, US 88th Division Rangers - the Fighting Blue Devils - await the crossing of the River Po during the Italian Campaign.	5

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