German tanks weren’t even that great lol it’s just more Nazi propaganda. They were alright and they made some novel innovations but a lot of them were actually very poorly made/designed in many respects.
one of the key aspects to why the ‘uber’ tanks didnt actually matter all that much was there unwillingness to use them; the ‘Panzer’ flagship tank for example, was known to be ‘invisible’, not because it was stealthy, but because no one on the ally side ever actually saw one as they would keep it in the backlines in reserve away from combat as they knew that it would be 10x worse for it to be blown up even once, defeating the propoganda myth of it being ‘invincible’
It was a propoganda army built on lies, they needed to maintain the myth till material reality hit them in the face and they collapsed, paper tigers.
Note that the main nazi tank for most of the war was Pz4, and while it was a decent tank, precisely because it was tried and tested and they have time to improve the project and get rid of the technical problems, there are no legends about Pz4 - those are reserved for the later tanks, as you said.
See also: The Bismark
Entire nazi surface navy was actual shit also suffering from overengineering, faulty equipment and crappy command too. Leading to such embarassing episodes as Second Battle of Narvik or the lost of cruiser Blucher in the Oslofiord. If not for that one lucky shell from Bismarck, they would have absolutely nothing to show ever. Hell they were so openly bad that even the wehraboos shut up when topic shifts from army to navy.
