Sturmpanzerwagen A7V Tank WW1 | Simple History

7.8K views · 241 reactions | Soldiers pose for the camera on the captured German A7V tank 'Hagen' on the Western Front during the Hundred Days Offensive, 1918. The clip comes from a British government film on how the Allies ‘broke the famous Hindenburg Line’. Read about the offensive here: https://bit.ly/3QlNYBw Film: IWM 332 | Imperial War Museum London | Facebook

Our running replica of a First World War German A7V tank is built to represent 'Schnuck' - captured on this day in 1918. After capture, Schnuck was displayed at the Imperial War Museum until 1922, when it was scrapped. Only the gun has survived. Like later German tank designs, the A7V was far more mechanically sophisticated than British machines of the time. And just like some of those later designs, that sophistication would also prove to be what undermined it the most. Whilst 100 A7V’s were or

In February 2018, history rolled back into Brisbane. Watch as Mephisto the world’s only surviving German A7V tank from World War I makes its extraordinary journey into Queensland Museum, where the Anzac Legacy Gallery was quite literally built around it. Moving this 30-tonne icon was no small feat – and this time lapse shows just how monumental the moment was. If you’re in town for the The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, take the opportunity to experience another piece of military history. You