This is a rather raw translation, same source as the Sherman, I will improve it later:
History of the Tiger tank began many hundreds of thousands of years ago, when several species of big cats decided to abandon the long saber-like fangs, acquire tails and implement new camouflage schemes. In spite of the ridicule of their arrogant saber-toothed cousins, they grew their long tails patiently and thoroughly investigated various types of masking color. After a few tens of thousands of years of hard work the first tiger finally sharpened its claws on a palm tree and up until 1930s, things more or less settled down.
Meanwhile, AA Schicklgruber, colloquially referred to as Hitler, came to power in Germany. And barely five years into his evil reignm he began to realize varios military-megalomaniac fantasies. Of course, this affected the Panzerwaffe as well. The first German tanks, of course, were not bicycle-powered as some unscrupulous researchers claim, but, nevertheless, they were only considered tanks by overtly biased people. Fuhrer wanted something more ... At the end of January 1937 the Henschel Company has received an order for the design of a vehicle euphemistically called " war machine ." The first produced model was not a tank at all, and was assembled from two halves with screws. The running gear, however, was quite normal and there were no signs of the horror that awaited the thousands of German technicians in 1943-1945. At the time Germany did not use the progressive Soviet methods of managing design process (putting entire research communities in regulated, tightly guarded institutions with barbed wire and machniegun towers, where they had all the conditions for productive work), so when Panzerwaffe representatives arrived to see the experimental tank , they were quickly shown something something without a turret and loaded with railroad rails.
- Where's the tank ? - Asked the tankers .
- That
History of the Tiger tank began many hundreds of thousands of years ago, when several species of big cats decided to abandon the long saber-like fangs, acquire tails and implement new camouflage schemes. In spite of the ridicule of their arrogant saber-toothed cousins, they grew their long tails patiently and thoroughly investigated various types of masking color. After a few tens of thousands of years of hard work the first tiger finally sharpened its claws on a palm tree and up until 1930s, things more or less settled down.
Meanwhile, AA Schicklgruber, colloquially referred to as Hitler, came to power in Germany. And barely five years into his evil reignm he began to realize varios military-megalomaniac fantasies. Of course, this affected the Panzerwaffe as well. The first German tanks, of course, were not bicycle-powered as some unscrupulous researchers claim, but, nevertheless, they were only considered tanks by overtly biased people. Fuhrer wanted something more ... At the end of January 1937 the Henschel Company has received an order for the design of a vehicle euphemistically called " war machine ." The first produced model was not a tank at all, and was assembled from two halves with screws. The running gear, however, was quite normal and there were no signs of the horror that awaited the thousands of German technicians in 1943-1945. At the time Germany did not use the progressive Soviet methods of managing design process (putting entire research communities in regulated, tightly guarded institutions with barbed wire and machniegun towers, where they had all the conditions for productive work), so when Panzerwaffe representatives arrived to see the experimental tank , they were quickly shown something something without a turret and loaded with railroad rails.
- Where's the tank ? - Asked the tankers .
- That