The captured by the Nazi Germans the Soviet T 34 76 medium tank from the Red Army Armoured Forces. The Eastern Front, Operation Barbarossa, Second World War in Europe.
In the photograph the T 34 76 from the earlier models (by rollers), obviously, photo made in the summer of 1941. The tank in complete safety, leave the crew. No gun – dismantled Soviet tank crews during the retreat.
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War Soviet medium tank T 34 was superior firepower and armor protection of all German tanks. T-34 medium tank was virtually invulnerable to regular Wehrmacht anti-tank weapons, but most of the losses were not in combat, but due to technical faults, lack of fuel and general confusion among the troops.