Panzer III is the most famous German tank of the early period of World War II! It is he who can most often be seen in German newsreels of those years. Close-up of wildly rotating caterpillars, grinding the dust of European roads! Here it is - the visible, concrete embodiment of the blitzkrieg! Meanwhile, neither in the Polish nor in the French campaigns did this vehicle constitute the majority in the Wehrmacht tank divisions. Only at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa did the Panzer III become the most popular German combat vehicle. Good maneuverability, good armor protection and relatively powerful weapons allowed this tank to confidently resist Soviet tanks on the Eastern Front and British tanks in North Africa until 1943. But the age of the Panzer III had already been measured: the possibilities for modernization had been completely exhausted and there was no place for the “troika” in the ranks of German combat vehicles at the final stage of World War II...