A7V

The A7V was Germany’s response to British tanks, which had first appeared on the Western Front in September 1916. Twenty were built and saw service between March and October 1918.

The A7V, also known as the Allgemeines Kriegsdepartement, Abteilung (English: General War Department, Section 7, Transport), was the first German Tank, made by the German empire in 1918. It was a response to the Mark 1, witch was made by the British in 1916 and used at the Battle of the Somme. It was used in the later part of World War 1, and the German Revolution of 1918. The Tank also was adapted into the A7V-U, and the 7V Flakpanzer

A7V Media

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  Panzerwagen A7V

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  5.7-cm Maxim-Nordenfelt gun from A7V "Schnuck", at the Imperial War Museum, Manchester, UK
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  • For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Deutscher Sturmpanzerwagen A.7.V., 1917- 1918
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  A7V tank at Roye on 21 March 1918

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  "A German Sturmwagen 'cleans out' a French village. Based on an original drawing by Professor Anton Hoffmann."

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  A7V tank (Mephisto) after recovery from the battlefield

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  Drawing of a proposed Sturmpanzerwagen Oberschlesien

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  Drawing of a proposed K-Wagen

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  1921 Tank Memorial Badge

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  SS-Obergruppenführer Josef "Sepp" Dietrich, third from right, wearing the 1921 Tank Memorial Badge. Josef Goebbels is second from left.