If im not mistaken, it was Guderian that wanted more Panzer IV's built as the Panther's and Tiger's were more expensive and harder to maintain..... But Hitler turned him down.

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The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness. -Adolf Hitler