![]() The new design would become the first indigenously developed and produced combat tank since the close of World War 2 in 1945. West Germany was accepted into NATO in 1955 and was then forced with the prospect of developing an all-new combat vehicle to fill the Main Battle Tank role in their inventory. For NATO, World War Three would have to come through Germany and would have brought with it massed formations of Red Army tanks. The situation remained status quo for much of the Cold War with each side spewing rhetoric and awaiting the other side to make the first fatal move. The German nation was eventually divided along a dividing line which created West Germany - allied to NATO - and East Germany - under the control of the Soviet Union. ![]() The Soviet Union took Berlin and the Allies moved in from the West. The German war-making capacity was dismantled by the victors following the end of the war in Europe. ![]()
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