Comments by "TheThirdMan" (@thethirdman225) on "German Tank Production in World War 2 - Military History" video.

  1. +Louisville UAV "Without Pearl Hitler Harbor we likely would have sat out the war." Well, no because Hitler would have declared war anyway because of the Atlantic convoys.
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  2. +Kameraden "When compared to the T-34 and KV-1 (KV-1 of which saw field action in 1939) the Panzer III was definitely obsolete, in some respects before it ever saw the field the Panzer III was obsolete." This is all relative. At the time of Barbarossa, T-34's and KV-1's comprised only about 8% of Soviet tanks in the field. In fact, on June 1, 1941, the Red Army had at its disposal: 59 T-35s, 504 KV-1s, 436 T-28s, 891 T-34s, 7,433 BT-7s 9,792 T-26's and 3,587 other light types for a grand total of 22,702 tanks. (source: Zaloga "Armored Champion" p. 88). Ergo: the likelihood of running into a heavy tank was pretty low. Perhaps the argument he's making about obsolescence is that the production methods were now inadequate to meet the demands of higher quotas. The PzKpfw III was not designed for high volume production in the same way as the Panther was. This is the point of the video.
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  3. I'm not arguing against that. I'm saying that the PzKpfw III was obsolete in terms of its ability to be mass produced. I am pretty sure that is the point he's making about it. I also think that the Panzer III would still have been effective, given that the Red Army opposition was, in the main, obsolescent.
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