How many different German tanks?

You're in the ballpark with your assesment of the drain on German production. The whole war economy in Germany was a patchwork affair. It started with Hitler re-arming and starting the war on the cheap to avoid any hardships on the domestic economy. (He ranted about the Jewish stab in the back, but he knew the real reason WW I was lost was the fact that people in Germany were starving.) When the war started the Germans tried to supplement their forces with whatever they could use from occupied countries; Czech, French, Polish, etc. It's been estimated that the German arms production wasn't really ready to provide equipment to the front until late '44! The other reason is the fact that German tank production was based mostly from locomotive and shipbuilding bases where the American was from an automotive base. That left the Germans with a tendency for special purpose, high craftsmanship designs where the Americans designed a robust general purpose tank and went for massive production. Hope this answers some questions.

far too amny to list.......... but here are some tanks

panzer I
panzer II
panzer III
panzer IV
panzer V panther
panzer VI tiger
panzer VII (or was it VI 1/2?) king tiger

these tanks were the most basic tanks, most other tanks were built on these chasies. for example; bumbar, stumtiger, elephant/fernidad, hetzer, stugg, hummel, marder 1, mardar 2, waspe, and soo many more.

there was also alot of super heavy tanks that were being built at the end of the war, lets just be thankfull the war ended before they were built...... they were the maus, and the e-100

i could list some armoured cars and halftracks, but i don't want too

it would tank a very large book of just german vehicles to list all of them and some varients. there is i book i am a ware of that lists alot of them, can't remember what it is called, but shermanfirefly has it, maybe he could fill us in? the book also lists how many of them were built.

Here's a list:
http://klub.chip.pl/krzemek/galeria.htm

Pure tanks? According to my favorite reference, the Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War II (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1854095188/qid=1085598948/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-0729037-1888921?v=glance&s=books)

there are seven major tank types, Panzers I through VI, plus the Pz 35 and 38. (The King Tiger and Tiger IIs were part of the Panzer VI family).

Each of these tank types has several models (the Panzer IV, for example, had over 13 version if you inlude the first prototype and the command variants), and their basic chassis is also reused in several configurations, such as the assault guns and self-propelled howitzers, and each of these also have a few models.

The US also had quite a few tanks in WWII, such as the M1, the M2 light tank, the M2 medium tank, the M3 Light tank (Stuart), the M3 medium tank (Lee/Grant), the ubiquitous M4 Sherman and it's many variants, the M26 Pershing and the M24 Chaffee. The US also designed several others during the WWII period, but many of them never went into service.

The British armor situation was similar. They had the Matildas, Cruisers, Valentines, Churchill, Cromwell and the Firefly, a Sherman variant.

Here's another good WWII German Armor site, if you want to read up more on it.

http://www.achtungpanzer.com/panzer.htm

Nat

wow, thats quite a site there!!! its got every different variant there!!!!!

Natm: thats the one i was talking about

here arre some links for tanks on the web:
http://www.onwar.com/tanks/germany/index.htm
http://www.military.cz/panzer/index_en1.htm
http://www.jagdtiger.de/index2.htm