What was this vehicle used for?
to score the opponent's strategic points
for transporting soldiers
In the midst of World War II, the German firms Alkett, Krupp, and Daimler-Benz designed a new vehicle to detonate land mines . Built in the Alkett factory near Berlin, the VsKfz 617 Minenräumer was heavily armored and designed to detonate mines by simply rolling over them. (VsKfz is short for Versuchs Kraftfahrzeug, meaning “test vehicle.”)