When the German tanks emerged, Popular Science was unimpressed. Germany, on the receiving end of tank offensives, was slow to develop armored gunwagons of their own. Invented by the British, they had their debut in 1916, and other allied nations made their own to join in. In World War I, tanks first appeared as weapons exclusive to the allies. Here’s how Popular Science covered the development of the tank in the years between its debut in World War I to its horrific triumph in the second World War. Warsaw would surrender just 27 days later. In 1935, Popular Science announced the age of the tank with these words: “Fast, powerful land battleships may speed up the net war by preventing trench stalemates, or even make war an impossibility.” While the second half of that prediction failed to materialize, 75 years ago this week, the first part became crushingly real as a German offensive, spearheaded by 2,000 tanks, entered Poland. The answer, it turns out, is “War Brutes.”
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