Yea-hey I think BergeTiger although a nice idea can't be confirmed. Most contemporary thought is that it was in fact a DCL - demolition charge layer. The crane isn't thought to be much useful beyond a ton or so. All speculation as nobdy seems to know for sure. This revelation was a major bummer for me as I wanted to build what I originally thought to be a BergeTiger also. I'll have to settle for a BergePanther, yet another brilliant choice as Panthers were so fragile and complicated themselves, but I like them anyway...

I suppose it could have been a BierTiger; a rare Tiger converted for offloading beer to the troops on holiday...they needed a AFV with the robustness of a Tiger to defend the beer against combat weary troops wanting refills...That's also why it retained secondary armament... to quell beer fueled carousing and brawls...

Jerry