Abteilung: Battalion
AK: “Armia Krajowa” The Polish Home Army
AT: Anti-tank
BA-FAI: A Soviet armoured car used by the Germans as a police armoured car.
BP 42: Armoured train, model 1942
BP 44: Armoured train, model 1944
Brummbär: Assault tank IV, equipped with a heavy assault gun
Ersatz: Replacement/training
Ersatz-StuG. Abt.: Replacement assault battalion
Fallschirm-Panzer: Parachute armour (Herman Göring)
Flak-Kaserne: Anti-aircraft garrison
Flak-Vierling: Four-barrelled anti-aircraft gun of calibre 20 mm
Funklenk (Fkl): Radio controlled
Gammongranat: British anti-tank grenade
Goliath: Radio controlled mini tracked vehicle for the delivery of demolition charges
Heeresgruppe: Armé Group (Army Group)
Hetzer: Tank killer, a self-propelled AT-GUN mounted on a Czechslovakian T-38 tank, when in German service PzKpfw 38(t)
Jagdpanzer: The standard description for all designed self-propelled AT-guns.
Kampfgruppe: Battle-group
Karl Gerät: Super heavy mortar of calibre 60 cm and was used for the destruction of the heaviest bunkers.
Kraftfahrpark: Vehicle depot
MG 34: Machinegun, model 34
MG 42: Machinegun, model 42
Molotovcocktail: Petrol bomb
Munitionsschleper: Ammunition transport
Mörser: Mortar, high calibre artillery gun similar technically to standard mortars firing shells in a high arc toward the target.
Nebelwerfer: German rocket artillery
PAK: anti-tank weapon
Pak 38: Panzer Abwehr Kanone AT-GUN, 5 cm calibre
Pak 40: AT-gun, 7.5 cm
Panzer-Abteilung: Panzer Battalion
Panzer-Aufklärungs.Abt.: Panzer reconnaisance battalion
Panzerbefehlswagen IV: PzKpfw IV-vehicle with extra radio equipment for use as a battle command vehicle for a panzer battalion.
Panzer-Division: Tank Division
Panzerfaust: German AT gun
Panzergrenadier: Tank grenadier
Panzer-Jäger-Abteilung: Anti-tank battalion
Panzer-Kompanie: Panzer Company
Panzer-Korps: Tank Corps
Panzer-Nachrichten: Tank communication/radio unit
Panzerschreck: German bazooka
PIAT: British RCL, a one-man, recoilless AT-gun
PzKpfw: PanZerKamPFWagen = Tank
PzKpfw II: A light tank, model 2, and reconnaissance vehicle
PzKpfw III: A tank model 3 and medium tank
PzKpfw IV: A tank model 4 and medium tank
PzKpfw V “Panther”: A tank model 5 and medium-heavy tank
PzKpfw VI “Tiger”: A tank model 6 and heavy tank
PzKpfw 38(t): A reconnaissance tank of Czech origin also used by the Swedish Army
PzKpfw 736(i): German codification for an Italian tank of model M13/40 and the M14/41
RONA: Russian National Liberation Army
SA: Sturm-Abteilung – Assault Battalion
Sd Kfz: SonDerkraFtfahrZug = ID code for military vehicles in German service.
Sd Kfz 7/2: Anti-aircraft- halftrack baring a 3.7 cm Flak 36 AA gun
Sd Kfz 10/4: Anti-aircraft-halftrack baring a 20 mm Flak-Vierling 38 AA gun
Sd Kfz 132 “Marder”: Self-propelled 7.62 cm AT-gun converted from the obsolete PzKpfw II – vehicle
Sd Kfz 232: Armoured Radio Car
Sd Kfz 233: Armoured car without turret, armed with a 7.5 cm short-barrelled gun
Sd Kfz 250: Light half track for infantry transport
Sd Kfz 251: Medium/heavy half-track for infantry transport
Sd Kfz 263: Armoured radio car (6×4)
Sd Kfz 301, (B VI): Borgward a so called “Sprengstoff-träger” vehicle built especially for the demolition of bunkers and obstacles.
SS-Obergruppenführer: SS-General
SS-Standartenführer: SS-Colonel
SS-Staufernkasern: SS-Garrison
StuG Sturmgeschütz: Assault gun
SS und Polizeiführer: Chief of SS- and Police units within a specified occupied area
Sturm-Kompanie: Assault Company
Sturmpanzer: Heavily armed, assault gun of model Brummbär
Sturm-Pionier: Assault sappers/pioneers
Sturmstiger: One of the most heavily armed guns! A 38 cm rocket launcher also called “Sturmmörser” or assault mortar.
z.b.V zum besonderer Verwendung: available – at command disposal