Outgunned and outnumbered on the Eastern Front, German units relied on a simple but deadly weapon: the Marder tank destroyer. Too lightly armored for a direct fight, its survival depended on a ...

On the second day of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union collided head-on with a harsh reality: German 37 mm antitank guns were powerless when a wave of T-34 and ...