History Forum / War History / World War II / October 2007

I am currently reading Anatoly Rybakov's Fear, a novel about the early 1930s
set primarily in the Soviet Union.
In Chapter 13, he asserts:
"In 1928, 810,000 people for the Nazis in Germany, but on September 14,

What exactly was the log (yes these are wooden logs) modification for
Finnish Sturmgeschütz III's supposed to accomplish?
http://www.achtungpanzer.com/stug.htm has some pictures. Logs couldn't hope
to stop high-velocity anti-tank rounds could they? Was the log modification