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By the beginning of 1940 the war between Nazi Germany and the Anglo-french alliance was already entering its fifth month, but since the fall of Poland there had been scant significant tests to either side on the battlefield. This all rapidly changed in the spring of 1940, during which France and the Benelux countries fell to the Nazis, and the British army retreated back across the Channel. In only a few days German Panzer divisions had succeeded in breaking Allied lines. In doing so these mostly diminutive but nonetheless hugely effective war machines had redrawn maps and changed the course of history.

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A German infantryman and Panzer commander greet each other after the capture of Calais, 1940