German tanks in the center of the city of Rostov-on-Don, USSR; November 28, 1941. 


Invading armor

German self-propelled gun "Elefant" of the 653rd battalion of tank destroyers, abandoned by the Germans in Rome, Italy; Summer of 1944. 
The 653rd Heavy Panzerjäger Battalion (Schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 653.) was a tank destroyer unit of the Wehrmacht active during World War II. It was equipped with Ferdinand and later Jagdtiger tank destroyers. Elements of the battalion served on the Eastern, Western, and Italian fronts between 1943 and 1945.
Elefants - the new name for the added defensive hull-machine gun mount armed version of the Ferdinand - and was sent south to Italy where it fought at the Battle of Anzio in February 1944.  

Abandoned Elefant

Campaign of Greece. A Panzer II Ausf. C light tank crosses the Pineios stream in the vicinity of the Greek city of Larissa; 1941.
The soldier in the back belongs to the mountain troops (Gebirgsjäger).

