Super Tanks • 2013 • episode "S1E4" • Nazi Megastructures

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The story of Nazi engineers tasked with fulfilling Hitler's megalomaniac demand for the construction of a land battleship weighing 1,000 tons.

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Nazi Megastructures • 2013 • 2 episodes •

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