The 6th Panzer Army was the best equipped among the three German armies that participated in Operation Herbstnebel.’ Among many things, it had a battalion of the huge 70-ton Königstiger tanks, which, with its 88mm KwK43 L/71 Kampfwagenkanone had an almost unmatched firepower. A Königstiger could knock out a Sherman frontally at a distance of up to two miles, whilst its own frontal armor was almost invulnerable to the fire of a Sherman at basically any distance. 

Operation Herbstnebel

Motorcyclists of the motorized SS Das Reich Division on a street in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In the background on the left is a "mittlerer Einheits-Pkw" (medium off-road passenger car), on the right, a Mercedes-Benz Stuttgart 260 convertible passenger car; April, 1941.

Belgrade under German rule

German soldier on a BMW motorcyle about to deliver warm food in a thermal container to the forward troops, during the battle of Moscow.
