You’ve reminded me of how Airfix sometimes deal with the German nomenclature for the sake of their perceived market, ie children. Their 1/32 Sd.kfz 250 is “Rommel’s Half-Track” - and the current release now only has that on the box top, while the original box followed it with “Sd.kfz 250/3” in equally sized letters.
For their 1/76 StuG III they have gone the other way. While it used to be labelled “German Assault Gun”, it then went all technical when it became “75mm Assault Gun”. The current boxing has gone (almost) totally native with “Sturmgeschutz III Ausf. G”.
Then there is the “Armoured Car 234” that became “German Armoured Car”, and is now “Sd.kfz 234 Armoured Car”.
Their “German Reconnaissance Set” has undergone a similar journey, even picking up an umlaut on Kubelwagen.
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