Panzer I
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The Panzer I was a light tank produced by Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Its name is short for Panzerkampfwagen I, abbreviated as Pz.Kpfw. I. The tank's official German ordnance inventory designation was
A Wehrmacht Panzerkampfwagen I Ausf. A light tank on display at the Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster in Munster, Germany.
A Spanish Panzer I Ausf. A on display at the El Goloso Museum of Armored Vehicles in Spain. This particular vehicle has its original drive-sprockets and tracks replaced by those of the US M113 armored personnel carrier (APC).
A former German Pz.Kpfw. I Ausf. F on display at the Belgrade Military Museum in Belgrade, Serbia
A German Panzer I Ausf A on the bank of the Brda River in Poland during the German invasion of the country, 4 September 1939
Panzer II
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The Panzer II is the common name used for a family of German tanks used in and before World War II. The official German designation was Panzerkampfwagen II.
Panzer I
…thin armor, and who were highly vulnerable to machine gun fire. The small, vulnerable light tank, along with its somewhat more powerful successor the Panzer II, would soon be surpassed as a front-line armored combat vehicle by more powerful German tanks, such as the Panzer III, and later the Panzer IV, Panzer…
PzKpfw II Ausf. F at the Musée des Blindés
An uparmored Panzer II on the Western front with a Panzer I in the background, May 1940
A Panzer II during Operation Barbarossa in 1941 moves along a road outside a village.
PzKpfw II Ausf. F at the Musée des Blindés