Military Tuesday : How To Operate a Tiger Tank
One of my favourite armour reference sites, Fabio Prado’s The Armor Site, has released a PDF version of the Tigerfibel, which provides instructions on the operation of the Sdkfz 181 Pzkpfw VI better known as the German Tiger I tank. The mechanical operation of the tank is covered in substantial detail together with complete driving, radio and gunnery instructions.
The entire manual is written in German of course, but is extensively illustrated throughout to illustrate important points about the Tiger I. To cite an example, I’m positive that this irrelevant picture of a showering woman on page 18 indicates that the Maybach V12 HL230 engine (on bottom left of page) powering the Tiger I was a water-cooled engine 
Other illustrations are much more serious like these diagrams on leading the massive 88mm KwK 36 cannon for moving targets (with a Russian T-34 to illustrate the point) on the bottom of page 78.
There’s some range charts at the back of the manual about the common enemy tanks likely to be encountered by a Tiger tank crew accompanied with the profile and armour thickness on the side, back and front hulls respectively. Not too sure what the numbers on the chart mean - perhaps effective firing ranges?
Rnage chart for the Russian KV I heavy tank - the Krasnogvardeysk encounter is a good read
Can’t really figure out the rest of the information written in the Tigerfibel until I brush up on my limited German though 
If you are interested in examining individual pages more closely, there’s another version comprising scanned JPGs over at tiger1.info.
Download the Tigerfibel (scroll to the bottom) at The Armor Site.
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If more manufacturers would put pictures of women showering in their manuals, I would certainly read them. I am not sure I would learn more about the product though. Still this is a good resource to brush up my Tiger maintenance skills.
I’m still surprised by the inclusions of these illustrations in the manual. Additionally this is an officially approved manual rather than an unofficial one.
On well, as long as they attract the potential readers to flip through the manual …