"Captured Hummel?" Topic

Is this a captured Hummel? and did the Soviets ue the in Berlin perhaps where this one wound up?

The Soviets used a good number of them. But I doubt any made it to Berlin. By that time numbers of their home grown designs were high enough that they had started to remove their own obsolete designs from front line duty.

My bet is that if it still moved and fired they kept it and used it :-)

Most armies rarely threw away usable kit until it was useless or too much trouble to carry on repairing.

Isn`t that a Sherman behind it too? This photo may well be from a scrap-yard where they gathered all the non-Russian stuff together at the end of the war.

That is such a great picture it looks almost like a B/W picture of a diorama. One of the most amazing resolution pictures from that period I have ever seen. I offer no help on your inquiry, but thank you for the great picture.

Chris

Yes it is Richard. Looks like a M4A2(76). Robert

Did anyone notice what look like weird painted figures on the brick walls in the back ground, left and right?

I thought this pic looked familiar. It is on page#2 of PanzerWrecks 2, under Panzer Wrecks in Vienna. The caption on this picture and the one on the page before it reads, "…Russian booty in the shape of a … Hummel.. In the background are the bare bones of two more plus a stripped Pz.Kpfw.I Ausf B, M4A2, PzKpfw.III chassis and on the left an M4 on its side. The Hummel is a late production vehicle ….Military Arsenal in Vienna. Russian forces captured large amounts of German equipment after the battles in hungry and put it to use against its former owners."

Here you go
wio.ru/tank/capt/capt2.htm
at least one example
7th March 1945 separate self-propelled gun regiment, 27th army 8 Hummel (SU-150), 6 Nashorn (SU-88)