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Despite the several hundred thousand motor vehicles used by the Wehrmacht in Word Ware II, the German armed forces were characterised by the horse. So it is not astonishing that a large part of the vehicles used by the Wehrmacht were not motorised vehicles but horse drawn vehicles. Expectedly, there were horse drawn vehicles for many purposes. In some cases, these wagons were also equipped for motorised towing. So, a clear differentiation between trailers and horse drawn wagons is not always possible. Many Pionierfahrzeuge – engineer vehicles – were primarily constructed for motorised towing but their designations followed the classification system of the horse drawn wagons and not the classification system of the Sonderanhänger. In the course of war, many captured and customary horse drawn wagons were added to the vehicle park of the Wehrmacht. Therefore, the presentation of a complete overview of the used types is not possible. If booty designations were assigned to captured vehicles except the captured Czechoslovakian horse drawn vehicles could not be clarified without doubts. Therefore the designations of captured vehicles from other countries were chosen based on the original designations in the style of the German booty designations.
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