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This is probably, lb. for lb., $ for $,
the best
rocket-propelled
anti-tank
weapon in history.
Most were made by slave laborers in the SS concentration camps.
Hitler only paid for materials that couldn't
be pillaged from the occupied countries.
Werner Von Braun's rocket team developed it's motor.
It's shaped-charge warhead could penetrate the
front armor of America's M-4 Sherman tank, even
when it was protected by a 75 lb. bag of cement mix.
Many U.S. tankers were cut to pieces by
the spall it's entry into the tank created.
It was very simple, consisting of the rocket/warhead
assembly, w/ a launch tube/trigger assembly.

U.S. POWs guarded by a Panzerfaust equipped Nazi.
There must be rifle equipped soldiers in the area, because
the Panzerfaust is not effective at close range against humans.

A Panzerfaust W/ An MP-44.
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