Comments by "" (@TheArklyte) on "T-34 in German Service" video.

Tbh I've always felt like the best use for captured allied and particularly soviet equipment was to give it to major german allies like Italy, Hungary, Romania and Finland. Rather then allowing it to slowly become obsolete, rust in the field awaiting melting that would never happen or forcing germans to diversify training, maintenance and supply. Italians were already looking at turning P75 ie predecessor of M26/40 into their own take on T-34, so why not just give them lots of captured T-34 and allow small italian industry to concentrate on supplying those with spare parts? Romanians did great with french R35, so why not give them S35 and B1 too? Hungarians already are producing czech designed Turan, maybe instead of dismissing czech T-25 proposals, someone should have directed them to hungarians? And so on.
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@Silverstream-74 "lacking" You mean none? Germans had no idea what the word "ally" means. Thankfully for us all.
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@HistoryGameV "this time without fees" You have just answered your own question. Germany was looking to further only its own interests in a "team game". Only when they were left with Hungary alone had they figured out that the amount of experienced highly trained and physically fit men in Germany is finite.
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@allewis4008 yeah, I've already mentioned that under "allowed to get obsolete". Not like they would have been more useful on Eastern Front in 1941-1942 when they still could have made some difference...
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