Why did German tanks go to the front painted red at the end of the war? #shorts

Why did German tanks go to the front painted red at the end of the war?

#history #shorts #ww2 #education

[Keyboard_Thoughts]

They painted them red because that made them faster

[stuartthornton]

Red wasn't chosen as such, the colour was that of the oxide primer, they simple didn't use a top coat of colour.

[HaVoCX]

Germany never lacked steel and aluminum. Their stocks were full at wars end. The were lacking certain elements for specific alloys. But iron ore and aluminum were never in short supply. Germany remained to be the world's second largest steel producer almost right to the end of War.

[PanzerGuy]

I am sure that the reason they are bright red is because Primer (Put on before the paint.) Is a Light Red So if they did lack paint the Bright Red would make sense to adopt.

[Panzermeister]

This is not true. There is no written or photographic documentation of this. It's simply a myth created by model makers in the late 1990s that has stuck.

There was no lack of paint at the end of the war. In fact, starting in August 1944, German vehicles were painted in elaborate standardized 3-colour camouflages in the factory, rather than letting the units camouflage them upon delivery. This was additional effort at the factory; the goal was to have vehicles already camouflaged during transport to the units due to allied air superiority.

Photographs of the last tanks produced in April 1945 still show them in these elaborate factory patterns even when Soviets were mere miles from the factory.

Don't spread bullshit without actually doing some research.

[mascaret]

it was a minium paint, not only a primer but also an anti oxidation protection.

[majorkursk]

The factories painted the new tanks in 'Red Oxide Primer' and was never referenced to as 'brick red'.
Some of the last Elefant tank destroyers were sent out of the factory in only red oxide primer. The very last one built had signatures and patriotic slogans written on it by the factory
workers themselves before it rolled out for battle.

[billwilson-esyn]

The Allied bombing of refineries and chemical plants created a shortage of paint resins. They had enough for the red oxide primer coat then used whatever possible for the other colors that were applied in stripes with the red serving as an additional color. They used heavily tinted white wash for lighter colors that eventually were washed off by rainfall.

[hllboi]

Red was the primer coat... they couldnt get camo schemes going quick enough and they were rushing them

[kamoteph]

this was to let the allies know they are in Boss Stage

[bobbylee]

Throwing buckets of mud on the tank is the best camouflage. Then covering it with tree branches.

[Always]

They remembered why Baron von Richthofen painted his plane red, to scare the enemy 😅 !

[hitpower]

Red was not a color that was painted on. It was the color of the primer that was applied before being painted.

[wwrctanks]

Red oxide was there primer.
The tanks you seen in red primer, were tanks rushed to defend Germany as the Russians east and Americans west were entering Germany. Some still got the chance to have strips of green and dark yellow.... others not even that.

[brandonmann]

Sent in primer to be camouflaged by designated unit

[doodskie]

German: maybe if we paint it red, they will think we are Russians

[paulw]

Factories only painted on the primer. Then, when the receiving unit finally got the replacement vehicles, they were responsible for applying additional camo paint for the local conditions. Thus, you can see various camouflage patterns shown. And they were ordered to use a minimum amount of the camouflage colors to get the job done to stretch the supply as far as possible. It turned out that this combo worked well inside of cities.
Can you imagine looking down a street and seeing nothing? Then, as you start down the street, you realize that a pile of rubble has a cannon...

[AdamMannD]

They didn't. This is a common misconception. Unless you've read the orders? Because I have and you're full of it.

[driverman]

My father drove a sherman tank in ww2 and I never heard him tell me about any red german tanks! He told me lots of things about their tanks! 😮

[peteramodio]

They could have left the tanks unpainted, they would have been covered with surface rust within days, giving the same effect!