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===Germany===
Tank locomotives with this wheel arrangement spread very quickly in Germany after the good Austrian experience with the Series 30. The [[:de:Württembergische T 5|Württembergische T 5]], the [[:de:Badische VI b|Badische VI b]] and the [[:de:Badische VI c|Badische VI c]] as well as the saxon [[:de:Sächsische XIV HT|Sächsische XIV HT]], all developed before the [[World War I|First World War]], were successful designs, many locomotives of these series were used well into the 1960s. Only the prussian [[Prussian T 6|T6]] was a bad design, the few examples were taken out of service shortly after the First World War. From 1928 the [[Deutsche Reichsbahn|Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft]] procured over 500 units of their [[DRG Class 64|class 64]] [[Einheitsdampflokomotive|standard steam locomotives]]. Private railways such as the [[:de:Eutin-Lübecker Eisenbahn|Eutin-Lübeck Railway]] with locomotives [[:de:ELE Nr. 11 bis 14|11 to 14]] also procured tank locomotives with this wheel arrangement in the interwar period.
In contrast, the first tender locomotives were initially unsuccessful. The [[:de:Oldenburgische S 10|Oldenburgische S 10]], which was delivered in three copies in 1916, was extremely uneconomical due to the boiler, which was badly matched to the steam engine, and was taken out of service after less than ten years. The [[:de:Badische IV g|Badische IV g]] from [[Baden]] was a downright faulty construction, neither performing well on flat ground nor on the [[Black Forest Railway (Württemberg)|Schwarzwaldbahn]]. The Baden State Railways gave away the five copies in 1918 in the course of deliveries after the [[Armistice of 11 November 1918|Armistice of Compiègne]] to France. The French side also wanted to get rid of the locomotives soon and agreed to return them to Germany, which was again refused in Baden. They were finally retired in France in the early 1930s.[[File:23 071 (ex DB 23 071) from the Veluwsche Stoomtrein Maatschappij (VSN).jpg|thumb|DB locomotive 23 071]]

It was not until 1941 that the Deutsche Reichsbahn received prairie tender locomotives again. The [[:de:DR-Baureihe 23|series 23]], which was procured in two prototypes, was to be procured as a passenger locomotive in up to 800 copies from 1941 as a replacement for the prussian [[Prussian P 8|P8]], but the [[World War II|Second World War]] made these plans obsolete in favor of urgently required freight locomotives. After the war, both the [[Deutsche Bundesbahn]] with the [[DB Class 23|DB class 23]] and the [[Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany)|Deutsche Reichsbahn]] in the GDR with the [[DR Class 23.10|DR class 23.10]] each procured a good 100 new prairie locomotives. However, due to structural change, the last units remained in operation for an average of less than 20 years and were taken out of service until around the mid-1970s.