1.5 – Tigers on the Eastern Front

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Nazi Germany fielded a military with many components designed to amaze as much as to destroy. While this philosophy meant that some designs never left the drawing board, one that did was the Tiger Tank—a relatively beastly model whose gun could rip through nearly every form of enemy armor before the ill-fated tank even had a chance to strike. The units comprised of these Tigers, heavy panzer battalions, saw some of their fiercest combat on the most treacherous of battlefields—the Eastern Front.


Music in this episode was brought to you by (full track listing): The Southernaires of Black, Blue Dot Sessions, Sergey Cheremisinov, Jon Luc Hefferman, Peter Rudenko, Anamorphic Orchestra, Kai Engel, and Podington Bear