Kummersdorf
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Kummersdorf is the name of an estate near Luckenwalde, around 25 km south of Berlin, in the Brandenburg region of Germany. Until 1945 Kummersdorf hosted the weapon office of the German Army which ran
Barracks ruins in Kummersdorf Gut in Brandenburg
Panzer VIII Maus
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Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus was a German World War II super-heavy tank completed in July of 1944. It is the heaviest fully enclosed armored fighting vehicle ever built. Five were ordered, but only two
Kummersdorf
…production contract), the Hetzer tank destroyer, the Panzer V Panther medium tank, the Tiger II heavy tank, possibly the VK 4502 (P), and the 188-tonne Panzerkampfwagen Maus super-heavy tank. Albert Speer refers to the tanks testing station at Kummersdorf during the 1942 offensive against the Soviet Union. The station showed…
The Maus hull:Version1 turret:Version2 prototype at the Kubinka Tank Museum, Russia (2025)
The "contact-shoe" and "connector-link" track design of the suspension system for the Maus
The rear of the Maus in the Kubinka tank museum
Hall for the Maus on the New Verskraft, Army Experimental Station Kummersdorf, 2013