The Stopgap Tank Hunter: Why the Marder Was Crucial to Germany’s Antitank Strategy

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On the second day of Operation Barbarossa, Germany’s invasion of Russia in June 1941, a glaring weakness in German weaponry was exposed. In Ukraine, General Mikhail Kirponos unleashed the formidable T-34 and KV-1 tanks against General Gerd von Rundstedt’s Army Group South. When a wave of T-34s ch