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Erika Shiraishi gazed at the models lined up on her desk: a Tiger, a Stuka, an Acht-Acht, and the 80cm Railway Gun. "Yes, I admit it. They are stylish." The heavy hull of the Tiger. The inverted gull wings of the Stuka, like a bird of prey. The Acht-Acht stretching its long barrel toward the sky. And the 80cm Railway Gun, as if mocking common sense itself. "Rudel, Hartmann, Guderian, Manstein, Rommel. Including the personalities, I can understand why German military history remains popular even now." However, Erika placed a model of a British tank directly in front of the Tiger. "But... 'The German army was the strongest,' you say?" The smile vanished from her face. "How did the 'strongest army' lose air superiority? Why did they suffer so from fuel and supply shortages, get crushed from both East and West, and have their own capital occupied?" Erika took a sip of tea and smiled provocatively. "You are free to call British weapons 'ugly' and German weapons 'functional beauty.' Yet, that ugly Britain survived, and the seemingly perfect Germany was defeated." "The German army was strong. But not the strongest. As a lover of the British Way, I shall shoot down your myth of German supremacy."