The French Tank Used By The Germans - Char B

During the Second World War, the German Army would capture large parts of Europe. Once they had captured territory, they would use the resources of that area for their own war effort. This is what happened during World War 2 when France fell into the hands of the Nazis. Their tank production industry would fall into the hands of the German occupiers, and their tanks would become German tanks.

One such vehicle that did this was the huge French heavy tank, the Char B. This tank would be used by the Germans as a heavy tank, which didn't really fit in to their own rules of warfare. The Char B was a huge beast, had extremely good armour during the early stages of the conflict, but was incredibly slow. But how did it perform throughout WW2? The Char B would be heavily adapted and would even become an almighty flamethrower!

So join us today as we look at the French Tank used by the Germans, the heavy Char B.

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[jamesbednar]

Great video!! IF memory serves me correctly, do believe that a lot of the captured French tanks were used for anti-Partisan duties behind the lines in Yugoslavia, Poland, France, Greece, Russia, and other locations.

[gundog]

It's nice to see videos being done on these somewhat overlooked subjects

[alexdetrojan]

Can you reference your statement that each of these cost 1.5 million lbs? The comparable Matilda 2 was costing around 16, 000 lbs...somethings a bit off.

[bremnersghost]

Imagine how many of these the French could have built instead of the Maginot Line, Makes 1.5m Francs each look like a Bargain lol

[francescob.]

Will you make a video on the char G1 project? Because I can't see any video on this interesting project on youtube

[farkinarkin]

A formidable defense afv in those early years.

[frasermacdonald]

the tank that appears at 1:31 is actually a German modified flamm tank the 75mm cannon was replaced by a flame thrower which is that little box visible where th 75mm cannon used to be

[stephenwood]

The Germans seem to have quite often deployed tanks that were, let's say, less than ideal for their purposes, as garrison units in occupied territories, probably on the reasoning that, if these fronts were to become hot, they'd need tank support, but that the best and most modern tanks were more urgently needed in active warzones.

In France and the Channel Islands, the Char B1 must have seemed like an obvious choice for this kind of duty: a tank which, despite its drawbacks, was still fairly potent, in territories close to intact factories which could produce replacements and spare parts.

[iq]

Soon your channel is going to be like infographic

[theogangryscotsman]

Hey franz they left the keys in this one... jocham this has 15 km on the speedometer... dibs let ride to paris

[JeanLucCaptain]

according to the Cheiftan the ergonomics, poor layout and pisspoor doctrine actually make it a terrible tank. like most of the French tanks.

[richardlahan]

The Germans used lots of captured weapons (artillery, tanks, small arms, aircraft).

[Xycomm]

If I was the Germans I would have packed these up and sent them to act as support tanks in the east.

[Emtbtoday]

What French tank didn't the German's re-use really though! The Beutpanzers the R35 was re used adding 3.7mm fcms into marders and the Lorraine tractors etc one thing the German's were well known for, stealing any tanks they could from French and British! Just makes you wonder the confidence therr had with there own tank's must not have been very good! We all.thing German armour was superior to anything else but the armour was just rubbish! It cracked n shattered all the time.at the suspension there metal was so brittle!