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The German blunderbuss was handed in during last year’s government sponsored weapons amnesty with arms given expected to be destroyed

How Imperial Germany Fought Allied Tanks They’d Never Encountered Before Defeating a new threat is difficult and scary, especially for the German soldiers who never even knew tanks existed. Key point: Allied tanks were a nasty surprise for the Germans. However, the tanks were not used en masse and did not turn the tide of the war. The Somme offensive, which began on July 1, 1916, had by late that month deteriorated into a series of small, costly actions. Hoping to revive the attack, the British Army launched another major offensive on September 15. Spearheading the new effort were tanks,...