The entire scenario is based on a myth that the Germans had to fight French tanks with Pz IIs and still won.... never happened. At least not in the manner many believe it did.
Indeed it happened in a different manner. The truth is that the Pz II's drove up to the French tanks and then the tank commander would throw Sauerkraut to obscure the vision slits of the French. When the latter emerged to clear the vision slits, they were shot by the German tank commanders by pistol. The French tanks went down in droves...
Afterwards, for propaganda purposes, the Pz IIs charged the despatched French tanks, blazing at them with their 20mm Guns. This made for more fancy pictures and obscured the winning Kraut tactic.
The German rules of engagement and details on this tactic were captured by the Russians close to the end of the war in Wünsdorf near Zossen. Stalin was fuming when it was revealed that the same tactic was used successfully against the heavy KW tanks in 1941 and he subsequently "cleansed" close to a dozen generals whom had withheld this information back then for fear of retaliation - rightly so as we see. Because Stalin felt the affair an absolute embarrasment - rightly so again - the whole thing was shoved beneath the carpet and locked up in inaccessible archives.
It was in the Gorbatchev era, when many archives were opened that the affair came to light - sort of. A promising Russian historian by the name of Dr. Jevgeniev Vorobyov stumbled onto these documents and worked on a paper that was intended to be published in the spring of 1993. However, his research had attracted unwanted attention by the old nomenclatura and Dr. Vorobyov was found floating dead one morning on the banks of the Moskva. The crime could never be attributed, but mysteriously, his groundbreaking evidence, his paper, and the material in the archives where he had worked, had vanished without a trace.
After that, no one cared or dared to follow up on the matter...
von Marwitz