Appendix 8
Abteilung – Battalion, detachment
AK – Armia Krajowa/ Polish Home Army
AT – Anti Tank/ tank opposing weapon
BA-FAI – Former Russian armoured vehicle used as a police-armoured vehicle.
BP 42 – Armoured Train model 1942
BP 44 – Armoured Train model 1944
Brummbär – Sturmpanzer IV, heavily armed assault gun
Ersatz – Replacement – training
Ersatz-StuG.Abt. – Replacement assault gun battalion
Fallschirm-Panzer – Airborne armoured unit… (Herman Goering)
Flakkaserne – Anti-aircraft barracks
Flakvierling – Four-barrelled anti-aircraft gun calibre 2 cm
Funklenk (Fkl) – Radio steered
Gammongranat – British anti-tank grenade
Goliath – Radio steered mini-tracked vehicle for targeted delivery of high explosives
Heeresgruppe – Army Group
Hetzer – Tank hunter, Self-propelled AT-gun built on a Czech T-38 tank – (German designation: Pz Kpfw 38(t))
Jagdpanzer – The standard name for all self-propelled anti-tank guns
Kampfegruppe – Battle-group/Attack-group
Karl Gerät – Super-heavy mortar of 60 cm calibre! – used to destroy the most fortified bunkers
Kraftfahrpark – Vehicle depot – workshop/ garage
MG 34 – Machinegun, model 34
MG 42 – Machinegun, model 42
Molotov cocktail – Petrol bomb
Munitionsschlepper – Ammunition vehicle
Mörser – Mortar, large-calibre howitzer - in common with mortars it fired shells in a high trajectory towards a target
Nebelwerfer – German rocket artillery
PAK – Anti-tank gun
Pak 38 – Panzer Abwehr Kanone AT- gun, 5 cm calibre
Pak 40 – AT-gun with 7.5 cm calibre
Panzer-Abteilung – Armoured Battalion
Panzer-Aufklärungs.Abt. – Armoured Reconnaissance Battalion
Panzerbefehlswagen IV – Pz Kpfw IV vehicle with extra radio equipment – used as a field command vehicle with armoured battalions
Panzer-Division – Tank Division
Panzerfaust – German handheld anti-tank weapon
Panzergrenadier – Tank grenadier
Panzer-Jäger-Abteilung – “Tank hunter” battalion, offensively oriented AT-unit as opposed to a “Panzer-Abteilung“ which is more defence-oriented
Panzer-Kompanie – Tank Company
Panzer-Korps – Tank Corps
Panzer-Nachrichten – Tank signal/radio communication unit
Panzerschreck – German bazooka
PIAT – British RCL, a recoil free, hand held anti-tank weapon fired by one man
PzKpfw – PanZer KamPFWagen = tank
PzKpfw II – Model 2 = light reconnaissance tank
PzKpfw III – Model 3 = medium-heavy tank
PzKpfw IV – Model 4 = medium-heavy tank
PzKpfw V ”Panther” – Model 5 = medium-heavy /heavy tank
PzKpfw VI ”Tiger” – Model 6 = heavy tank
PzKpfw 38(t) – Reconnaissance tank of Czech origin – also used in Sweden
PzKpfw 736 (i) – German classification for Italian tank models M13/40 and M14/41
RONA – Russian National Liberation Army
SA – Sturm-Abteilung, assault battalion
SdKfz – SonDerKraFtfahrZug = ID code for military vehicles in German service
SdKfz 7/2 – Anti-aircraft half-track vehicle with a 3.7 cm Flak 36
SdKfz 10/4 – Anti-aircraft half track vehicle with a 2 cm Flakvierling 38
SdKfz 132 “Marder” – Self-propelled 7.62 cm AT-gun, converted from the dated PzKpfw II-vehicle
SdKfz 232 – Armoured communications car (8 x 8)
SdKfz 233 – Half-track armoured vehicle, without turret, armed with a 7.5 cm short barrelled gun
SdKfz 250 – Light half track vehicle for infantry transport
SdKfz 251 – Medium-heavy half-track for infantry transport.
SdKfz 263 – Armoured communications car (6x4)
SdKfz 301 (B VI) – Borgward, a so-called “Sprengstoffträger,” a vehicle built for blowing up bunkers and obstacles
SS-Obergruppenführer – SS-General
SS-Standartenführer – SS-Colonel
SS-Staufernkasern – SS-Staufern (Staff) garrison/barracks
StuG – Sturmgeschütz, Assault-gun (Armoured tracked vehicle)
SS und Polizeiführer – Head of SS and police operations within specific occupied areas
Sturm-Kompanie – Assault Company
Sturmpanzer – Heavily armed assault vehicle, a “Brummbär”-type tracked vehicle
Sturm-Pionier – Assault engineers/sappers
Sturmtiger – An even more powerful assault gun than the 38 cm rocket launcher! It was also nicknamed, Sturmmöser
z.b.V – zum besonderer Verwendung, at the disposal of