This tank has an extraordinary tale to tell and went on quite the odyssey after the war. Today, just one A7V named "Mephisto" still exists. This is the story of Mephisto, where it is now ...

One of Germany's most notable contributions to tank development during World War I was the Sturmpanzerwagen A7V, a heavy tank designed to counter the Allied tank threat on the Western Front.

This was an A7V, Germany’s first home-built tank. The keels of the thirty-six-ton vehicles were armored in thirty millimeters of steel and resembled the ironclad warships of the U.S. Civil War ...