The Ratte supertank was a time-consuming fever dream that further delayed the Reich’s deluded leadership from addressing the reality that they were being utterly defeated. Nazi Germany was many things ...

The Ratte was designed to be the biggest tank ever built, a 1000-ton beast that could dominate the battlefield. But why was this colossal war machine never completed, and could it have changed history ...

In 1942, Nazi engineers proposed the P-1000 Ratte, a 1,000-ton “land cruiser” armed with battleship guns, multiple turrets, and armor thicker than anything on Earth. It would have been the largest ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Personally approved by Hitler himself, this enormous metal juggernaut would have been as long as a regulation-sized basketball court, weighed 1,000 metric tons—16 ...