![]() As the 1920s progressed the Germans became increasingly involved with the Soviets, both parties thinking that a fair deal had been struck when the Germans were given use of the Kazan tank school as an experimental and proving ground in return for technical information and training provided to the fledgling Soviet tank arm.īetween 19 the Germans readily but secretly broke the strictures of the Treaty of Versailles to produce a number of experimental tanks. In this last respect the Swedes were the Germans’ most important ‘allies’ in the early 1920s, when the LK II was readied for Swedish production and service as the Strv m/21 under the leadership of Josef Vollmer, designer of the A7V heavy and LK I light tanks of World War I, together with a German army team. ![]() Yet the German army was already well established in its programme of intelligence-gathering about foreign developments, clandestine evaluation of tank-capable components in Germany, and secret links with countries not unsympathetic to German liaison in the development of their own tank forces. As part of this process the German army’s tank force was disbanded, and the Treaty of Versailles imposed on Germany in June 1919 included among its provisions a total ban on the development of tanks. After the Armistice of 11 November 1918 the victorious Allies demanded and supervised the effective disbandment of all but a rudimentary and lightly equipped German army.
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