![]() The other though, did end up in Soviet hands, put together using the completed hull and turret. “While no credible information has revealed what actually happened to it at the time, one of the Maus prototypes was found blown up near Kummersdorf in the early months of 1945, presumably to keep it out of the advancing Soviet hands. We’ll quote Mr Young one more time as a postscript to this ignominious German tank saga: ![]() This was reportedly changed to Mäuschen (“Little Mouse”) in December 1942, and finally to Maus in February 1943. The first prototype was set to receive the seemingly more appropriate moniker Mammut (Mammoth). Along the way, the tank went through a series of name changes. The tank did not go into production until 1944 - the year of the Wunderwaffen (wonder weapons), as noted by military historian Don Hollway. The initial design of the Panzer VIII was drawn up and proposed to Hitler in 1942, the same year the first Mighty Mouse cartoon, The Mouse of Tomorrow, was released. However, there was indeed a Wehrmacht tank named the Panther. (Just for clarification, the German word panzer actually means tank, and not panther. They were best known for building fearsome tanks named for equally fearsome predatory cats like the Tiger and the Panther. Īfter all, we are talking about Nazi Germany here. ![]() The Germans are well-known innovators, yet I can’t help wonder wonder if Nazi Germany’s weapons designers were committing a wee bit of plagiarism when they named one of their experimental heavy tanks the Panzer VIII Maus – literally, Mouse – which turned out to be the heaviest tank ever built. ![]() “ Hier komme ich, um den Tag zu retten! ” That, according to Google Translate, is the direct translation of “Here I Come To Save The Day!” Old-school animation buffs will remember this as the Mighty Mouse battle cry. ![]()
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