A Tiger tank from the 501st Heavy Tank Battalion passing a group of Soviet prisoners of war, 1944.

Tank passes POWs

A Panzer II (PzKpfw II) of the 10th Panzer Division, along with motorcycle troops and infantry during the battle at Sedan, northern France; May 1940.
The German army invaded neutral Belgium and crossed the Meuse River in Sedan. This allowed them to get past the French fortification system, called the Maginot Line.
 


Sedan, northern France

Interior view of driver seat of Tiger I tank.
Tiger I was a German heavy tank of World War II deployed from 1942 in Africa and Europe. Its final designation was Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf. E, often shortened to Tiger. The Tiger I gave the Wehrmacht its first armored fighting vehicle that mounted the KwK 36 88-mm gun (not to be confused with the 8.8 cm Flak 36). 