Meet Kurt Knispel. Kurt was the son of a farmer, who were part

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Meet Kurt Knispel.

Kurt was the son of a farmer, who were part of the Sudeten-Germans.

When Germany annexed Czechoslovakia in World War 2, Kurt went on to work in a car factory.

Kurt quickly got bored, and wanted some adventure.

Thus Kurt joined the Wehrmacht as an infantryman, but for over a year, Kurt did not see much action.

Thus Kurt asked to be placed on a tank battalion. Kurt became a loader of a Pz IV, and fought on the Eastern Front an Stalingrad. Kurt got promoted to gunner and eventually to a commander of a Panther.

In 1943/44 Kurt made countless of victories and destroyed many Russian tanks. In his Panther Kurt destroyed 23 Russian tanks. In total, Kurt already destroyed 135 tanks, 178 armored vehicles and 165 smaller military vehicles and at guns.

Kurt got ambushed by the Russians and his panther got his 24 times, but he managed to escape.

On Kurt's name is the farthest tank kill of ww2, at 3000 meters.

In 1944, Kurt became the commander of a King Tiger, and was stationed on the Western Front, where Kurt managed to take down another 23 allied tanks. As a result, Kurt took down 168 tanks.

This makes Kurt the greatest tank ace of world war 2, but nobody mentions him, because Kurt was very humble, and he did not like Hitler very much, and he did not get any great rewards or publicity like Wittman. He wasn't in the SS either.

Kurt died in 1945 without much publicity.

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