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In Reply to: RE: Germans just aren't very creative... posted by Rod M on May 14, 2017 at 11:08:24:
Probably should have mentioned that I did translate them for your benefit.
The actual names in the same order are Wiesel, Puma, Fuchs, Fennek, Bieber and Dachs.
Not sure why they tend to use cutesy names but it has some history.
Even the Messerschmidt Me 262 was called Schwalbe (swallow) rather than something more impressive or sinister like Thunderbolt or Hurricane just to use a couple of allied plane names as an example.
In WWI the Germans called tanks Tank but then went over to Panzerkampfwagen as you correctly pointed out but I've never heard the other one.
It might be a colloquial form from back then though. After the advent of T34s german soldiers referred to their 3.7cm Pak (Panzerabwehrkanone) as PanzeranklopfgerÀt which roughly translates as tank door knocking device because it would just bounce of them.
Which is why the Germans adapted the 8.8cm flak as an anti tank gun and also fitted variants, made either by Krupp or Rheinmetall, to the Tiger, Tiger II and Jagdpanther tanks.
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