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The Stürmgeschutz, better known as the StuG was the workhorse of the German army during the Second World War.
Initially intended mainly for infantry support, the StuG evolved into one of the most important German vehicles of the war.
As the war progressed, a secondary role as a tank destroyer became more vital.
And the StuG arm has produced a number of brave and decorated commanders over the years. One of them was Josef "Sepp" Brandner.
Sepp Brandner joined the Sturmartillerie fairly early. In 1941, he joined the StuG Battalion 202 which saw its baptism of fire during the attack on Russia.
He was reassigned to command StuG Brigade 912 in 1944 and took command of the unit in mid-December of that year.
StuG Brigade 912 was one of the units stranded in Courland, Latvia's westernmost territory bordering the Baltic Sea.
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The STUG is such an underrated vehicle. One of the best designs there was
Had Germany focused it's resources on more StuGs and Panzer 4s, I think they would've at least drag the war to a stand still, they are too underrated, it's always panthers, tigers, king tigers, but the real backbone were StuGs and Panzer 4s.
I'm just glad that the nazis were too stupid to realize how close they were to cementing their power, and decided to go bigger and bigger, wasting resources and making things easier for the allies.
@@MihzvolWuriar Yes, Mihzvol. Especially as the tanks took so long to build and required so much specialized labor, whereas the Stug was a much less man hour intensive, and resource exhaustive product, so I think you are correct.
Furthermore, who knows what that would have enabled them to produce fighter intercept wise in underground factories, etc. Especially had they used the freed up resources to strengthen the Luftwaffe.
And had the Soviets not had lend lease, according to some of their WWII generals, they could not possibly have held the Germans.
I think this is true, as their industry had entire factories shipped there.
It at least gave them the weapons and munitions needed to hold the Germans off, whilst their own industry itself shipped entire factories further East and began churning out the military industrial products desperately needed by Russian forces in the field.
In a grim and costly irony for Germany and for German soldiers who paid for it with their lives, it came to pass that during their brief treaty with Russia, whist trading between the two nations continued, the Germans packed off a particular steel press, that enabled the Russians to mold beveled armor to deflect hits for their tanks. The German weapons factories therefore were incapable of producing such rounded protective armor.
All of these and many more missteps cost them the war, and cut down far too many German and allied soldiers in their prime.
Cheers
@@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz I have read some books mentioning many mistakes the Germans military made and a big one was not attacking/capturing Murmansk.
@@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz Had the soviets not "gave" 30 million casualties and if SSSR didnt destroy bulk of the Wehrmacht, do you think we would have D-Day as a succesefull operation nowadays? I think it would never happen. I think allies wont be able to defeat Japan AND Germany, and we would be writing these comments on german now. At least we that live in Europe would. The thing is SSSR stopped them AT THEIR PEAK at Moscow. When that spy Richard Sorge told Stalin Japan is not gonna invade SSSR on far east, Stalin transfered best equiped far eastern troops (equiped with many Shermans, Lees and planes from the lend lease) and from that point Wehrmacht was withdrawing with few large scale offensive operations during the summer (that further weakened Germans). So, you can say "SSSR would loose if US didnt lend lease them weapons" BUT also "allies would NOT HAVE WON if there wasnt for insanely brave (and often stupid) SSSR troops, who PAID for the victory WITH THEIR LIFES, and life worths MORE than any other thing money can buy. Just because money CANT BUY LIFE NOR HEALTH = anything money can buy worths less than one simple feeling (i duno why i wrote this laste sentence...forgive me).
@@APOLON-bm7ym totally agree - it was far closer - without Terror Bombing? Capture of Sevastopol and Crimea? Moscow? No dice. Hitler deposed, Europe saved. Though that, in itself is controversial- even with people who agree with me.
66 kills: highest scoring StuG ace.
StuG life. ✌️
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One of my favorite channels
I read years ago that one Stug commander said and I'm paraphrasing here, that life as a Stug crewman was exciting, short, but exciting. I've been intrigued by Stugs as well, and for many years, I'm a geezer. 8-) My personal fav is the Stuh42 for some reason.
My grandfather was chief quartermaster for the 18th Army in the Courland Pocket and had orders to evacuate from his commanding officer Gen. Ehrenfried Boege with a troop transporter full with wounded soldiers from Ventspils (Windau) on the 27th of February 1945 to Kiel in northern Germany. Gen. Boege went into Russian captivity for ten years with the rest of his men. We have a never-ending debt of gratitude to Gen. Boege that our grandfather lived another 25 years in the USA where he would tell us about those ten battles for the Courland Pocket when we would sail together on the Long Island Sound from Greenwich...
Gen. Boege was sent to Siberia for slave labor during 10 years...for the sole sin of being a German general... Sepp Brandner was luckier....only 3 years.
Thanks for sharing the fam story. How very fortunate!...
-Considering how those guys from Armee Gruppe Nord essentially got left behind to defend a ridiculous 're-accessible' Baltic bridgehead "Once Things Got Settled' (While fighting on 2-3 immense frontages simultaneously, up against allied air/naval/personnel/supply/logistics/advantage of manufacturing supremacy)...
Ive always found it kindve weird how so many Wehrmacht/Luftwaffe/Etc specialists of all types got evac'd for work back within Germany, but had they evac'd the entirety of the Courland pocket force (prob w/o loading up the heavy equipment aspect(s) that they wouldve had the additional manpower & further more: Capable Veteran units & men that were so desperately needed @ the time within Germany's borders. You know things are BAD whence youve retreated to ISLANDS off the coast of your former MLR! (Of which the local ponds & H2O filled shell craters became a source of all things German military/WW2 oriented via 'Magnet Fishing' during the post war years..;)
Which prob wouldnt have bought them more time @ all anyways & wouldve only added to the overall casualty numbers. But Ive read a few accounts from Kriegsmarine/Luftwaffe vets that it COULD have been accomplished, be it the men only & no doubt with high casualties taken, as over-loaded ships are BIG n' -s-l-o-w- targets
Then again, having survived the hellish conditions of Soviet captivity no doubt that fact saved many lives of those taken into Soviet/RUS custody? (VS. being used as last-stand types of defenders for lost cities/causes, that wouldve only served to prolong the war @ most by a few weeks perhaps?)
Thanks again Andreas....
Oak Leaves about a week before wars end. Interesting story; Kurland was another one of those impossible battles. Good he survived!
So did Donitz have it awarded to him?
Germany delivered StuG (Sturmgeschutz) vehicles also to Finland and they played a big part that Finland could in the end of the Continuation War (during the Second World War) stop Soviet Union from invading Finland and keep our independency in the summer of 1944.
Integral parts for Finland to rebuff Russia's attempted invasion were also the Panzerfaust (and Panzerschreck) arms which Germany sent to Finland as well, and the German flight group (they had mainly Stuka's) which operated in main battles, too.
Crucial as Germany's arms aid was for the survival of Finland, so was the bravery of the Finnish soldiers, too.
The German flight group was called Kuhlmey.
Too bad the Finns didn't return the favor & attack the Soviet Union. If Archangelsk had been seized, the Soviet Union would have collapsed. It was lend-lease that kept them afloat.
And Finland survived the power-hungry Soviet Union!!
I wonder how Sepp did after his release in 1948? He was on soldier anyone would want on 'their' own side. Quite courageous, loyal to his men and resolute in his duty.
The Australian Armour and Artillery Museum is restoring a Stug 111 from Courland. Their TH-cam channel is worth watching
call it Kurland :-)
Whitman also commanded StuGs before transitioning to Tigers. He used his Tiger much like he did a Stug and thus brought his 8.8cm Tiger gun to bear onto a target much faster than normal.
According to Carius to command from the open turret hatch was the key to victory. It was much more dangerous, but allowed a much larger field of view.
He would ask to turn the hull before firing? that’s a cool technique cause if he asked the turret to turn as well he was found a way to deal with the tiger slow turret
He was damn near killed in one during the invasion of France. A Frenchmen missed Whitman's stug by 2 or 3 feet.
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Carius avoided death by actual millimeters, twice. First by ducking down into the turret to listen to what one of his crew members were telling him, then half a second later a 152mm shell literally ripped his cupola off the tank. Then the second time he got shot 7 times in his back with a PPSh, bullets barely missing his spine and heart.
@@johnhighway7399 The 2nd time being a humorous one, w/his parents always nagging him for smoking, as he was leaning forward, his gunner giving him a light when his cupola suddenly >> !vanished! >>....Time 'fo tha sun-glasses!
Just looking @ those SU-152 muzzle brakes, if I were a Panzerwaffe crew-men, would make me pee my pantzen & run away screaming lika girl. Too say nothing of it firing near basketball sized projos @ ya!...;)
A small but mighty beast was the StuG. The champion tank killer of ww2 (and likely all time).
of all times in the Universe, the times of big tank battles are over...
the way of expression is amazing. it is like read a memory of german troop.
My grandfather was in the Kurland Kessel and could left with one of the last ships.
Danish or Nederlands regiment?
@@kurlandexpedition He was a German medic in the 16th Army. The ship brought him to Copenhagen, where he would become a POW und the Danish authorities hand him over to the British.
Sounds like Brandeir (my poor attempt at his name) had a great Situation awareness which was key to his success.
Too bad there's not any more soldiers of this caliber
Actually The Stug3 were responsable for The most Tank kills during The war.
Its almost unbelivable, how The germans were able to do so much with so few.
Бред Германия и их союзники кратно превосходили СССР по выработке электроэнергии и выплавку стали и мобилизационный потенциал был кратно больше!
А после войны сказки врут про численное превосходство русских!!!
@@user-uo1ff8yj5j speak english, man.
@@jpmtlhead39 nou
@@jpmtlhead39 Si mami 🇺🇸🤣🇺🇸♥️🇺🇸😊🇺🇸🐴
The retreating Germans had the advantage of being able to shoot advancing tanks whilst concealed however it’s still unbelievable.
Holding his ground until the fall of Germany against numerically superior forces? Hats off, then!!
yea, the Russians were so concentrated in occupying Berlin in 2 weeks time, they were not paying to much attention to a small brigade..
@@Corsa15DT And they ignored the quality of the armament and that of the German soldiers there. So they had to be in defensive stance to keep the Germans trapped.
@@Corsa15DT you don’t have to be triggered immediately just because this is a fact. Your weird reaction seems to be a bit off but I don’t want to think you are some kind of a Soviet fetishist.
Like chill man who cares? He killed is2 and t34s with a Stug which is impressive. And don’t say they didn’t care too much. The soviets had by this time a lot of tanks and they did attack the pockets to destroy them. It’s the red army for a reason they don’t have to care where they attack, they had enough.
I don’t know what your problem is
@@Corsa15DT bro do you know what brigade even is
@@Corsa15DT 🤣 they made 5 attempts...
All of us tank enthusiasts, know what a beast it was. Diversely Lethal.
Awesome video, very interesting commentary . Thanks so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Unsere tapferen Helden ❤️
Awesome thanks but never enough of them.
They were also built on obsolete chassis. It was the ultimate pragmatic weapon. Which is actually surprising coming out of WW2 Germany and their concept of wonder weapons.
ein Beeindruckender Mann und sein Stug 3.
forgotten heroes who dominate the battle fields
No nazi soldier is a hero.
....what a brilliant, tactical war by this guy.
I suggest watching the channel Battle Order
I suggest this vid hth-cam.com/video/oXUKxYoCQ_I/w-d-xo.html
High intelligence, high morale, and high discipline made the Axis the greatest armed forces ever.
It was Latvian legion in Kurland, the gole of kurland was to hold as long as posible till allys comes and help fight against red army.
Non of them fought for Germany, they waited for Brits.
So retard of them to think that uk will come and help em
They got rolled up on both fronts. The greatest armed forces ever was the juggernaut USA. There were many battles where Sherman Fireflies took care of the German equipment handily. I swear to listen to you German aficionados they won the war.
@@wymple09 Fireflies were fielded by the Brits.
@@0Turbox They were American tanks.
Love this channel. Thanks for all you do.
Good stuff about one of the final campaigns in the East. Well done!😀
Legend has it the commander shouted “time to stuggy boogey!” before opening fire.
Stug forces you to face enemy straight on. Makes a smaller target. Thickest armour up front.
75mm gun is very nasty. Still needs a good crew to be effective.
Thanks!
Thank you so much ❤️
One of the reasons that got my eye was the thumbnail because there is finnish stug
Really this is a great video thanks
I read about him in Panzer Aces 2 book.
I wonder what happened to this guy Brandner after the war...
Good video but a couple of doubtful points:
1. A major would not be commanding a brigade
2. An assault gun brigade has more than 3 StuGs - that is a platoon.
Also, many tanks could be in repair workshops, or simply not available.
Great video 👍
Thank's for the Video 🤝
Thanks for watching!
excellent production
Keep in mind that in post-war Germany he was not allowed to wear his medals.
Awesome video!
Glad you enjoyed it
great video, but i wish it had mentioned something about the guns used in the STUGs.
Imagine what he could have done with a brigade of Jagdpsnthers.
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Great feature guys!
Thanks 😀
Defending force has an advantage in scoring number of kills especially when they are less in number compared to Soviet tanks and the Soviet tank commanders cannot get that many opportunities to score that many tank kills.
They didn't just defend and counterattacked whenever it was possible, till the end.
Big respect to the mechanics, who were able to get the Stugs back to the battlefield after receiving a full hit and engulfed in flames.
German and Russian armour were both intimidating forces
This is one of the most intelligent and insightful comments I’ve read here so far. Yes, they were.
I knew he was Austrian because he got home early. The Germans had to wait a long time before they saw the Fatherland again.
Man how those generals must have hated taking orders from Hitler, knowing he wasn't fit to lead
Ten years after the war ended, 5000 out of approximately 260,000 captured German soldiers at Stalingrad were released.
@@2vintage68 91,000 captured at Stalingrad, the rest were killed or died of wounds. Within a few months, most were dead due to cholera and other diseases rife in Soviet camps. Post war, those that remained, were worked to death. Those 5,000 were a hardy bunch.
or never... from Stalingrad only 6.000 came back out of 91.000 POWs
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not really 6.000 out of 91.000 came back. 260.000 minus 91.000 died
(former tank commander) I love how we call the tank commander (T.C.) an "ace" when it's his gunner who corrects from the T.C.'s imperfect range estimation for the first shot. And especially now, with laser range-finders. The T.C. is important; he usually spots the target (gunner's scope has a narrow field-of-vision) and often corrects for the flight-path of a missed shot. Plus the loader, and the driver when there is no turret. It's a "team sport", but the gunner is the real ace.
No disrespect to the StuG ace...he looks more like an opera singer...never judge a book.....
Well done 👏
Thank you 😁
Guderian correctly asked to evacuate them for Berlin's defence. Kourland pocket contains experienced Wermacht's troops. Also in other Bagration's phases 50000 experienced German's soldiers captured. This and separate dispersed looses in Stalingrad and in North Africa suggested that Wermacht had in late 1942 many disconnections between trooper's units . Also many holes were in fronts simply because Romanian and Italian's armies weren't capable to fight against Red Army. Also Italian troops weren't comparable with Empire's troops in North Africa.
In other hands in Battle of France 1940, Wermacht was more compact . Italy attacked France , to defend Germany, but Italians had separate front,south of Switzerland's border. In France not operative contact made between Wermacht and Italian troops.
Good stuff ;)
Great video but there was a minor mistake at 02:55, I think you meant 1944
He became a hero.
A wonderful introducing
Amazing
I've always had a special place in my blackheart for Stugs and StuH's, but also for those nasty and quite good at killing Allied armor, the PZV Panthers. Yes, Stugs, et all, were cheaper and easier to build and quite effective. I also like PanzerjagerIV's with long Panther L/70 guns. Low and deadly, if a bit noseheavy. Oh, did I mention, deadly? 8-)
Tiger tank commanders:
Hans, ze transmission broke again 🤧
StuG commanders:
BOOM BOOM, THEY CAN'T SEE US HAHA 🤪
funny most confirmed tank kills accounted from assault guns (which 'are not classified as tank'), and not from the dubbed deadly Tiger tanks.
Should develop a new stug,for today's environment I believe it would be a major success for today war,especially Ukraine, I believe thanks very well done
I love hearing stories of the good guys. Shame Spielberg doesn’t make videos of the real hero’s of ww2.
Just go,s 2 show what team work can do!
Great video! I love the Stug! 🖤
Can i ask you the soundtrack title?
I think German technology was to advanced gearboxes and such, but incredible machines 🤔
Darn lucky to get released from the Russians in 1948
My grandfather came back in 1951.
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Many didn't make it out till 1955. And many died there
@@attila7092 My grandfather was in Siberia untill 1949 after this slave labour in Poland.
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Sorry to hear that. Where and when was he taken prisoner?
@@attila7092A few days before the end of the war.
IT was verry caotic. He was sleeping on his motorcycle and was catched by the russians.
He didnt know were he was back then, there was no real front.
541 russian tanks destroyed in a battle towards the last months of the war ... talking about fighting to the bitter end ... damn! It reminds me of how the germans lasted so long at the Dunkirk area, practically to the end of the war.
Nothing more gratifying than seeing Russian's getting brassed up.
You mean Soviets. Modern Russians might even be in the reverse role. It's easy to confuse people by just shuffling a few symbols, though.
Of course, the most disturbing thing about Russia is their attitude toward their Soviet past & the seeming glorification of it. Still, Ukraine is probably the 2nd worst modern nation behind China.
At best Russia is now a flawed country fighting a necessary war against an awful one. At worst, it's just a testbed for technologies & tactics we're not privy to & a way to launder money, launch psyops etc without any real redeeming aspect.
It's hard to truly say, though. We live in such a convoluted time. With how advanced civilian deepfakes have become you really can't trust anything you see anymore. I mean, if they were willing to pass off video game trailers as war footage in the beginning, what won't they do?
Many thanks for this video
That was the last defence of the Europe...
Can you please do the video about surrender at Iserlohn with magnificent Jagdtigers?
Wining A battle of any size truly is a team effort , A small amount of screw ups can mess up everything.
Finnish Stugs in the thumbnail picture.
Finnish make World record; 3 tanks killed by Stug in 1 minute. That tank Marjatta is in Parola tank museum.
@@jakkeledin4645 3 German Jagdpanthers destroyed 11 British Churchills in 2 minutes.
@@DilophoMS Both equally impressive achievements.
The Finnish StuGs had 11-1 kill-loss ratio mainly against the soviet T-34/85s.
If the Stug III could mount a long barrelled 75mm, a 105mm, then why couldn’t the Waffenamt mount an 88 on a Panther?
As I‘ve said many times the entire Tiger program was a colossal waste of resources.
6,000 panthers were produced in just two years whereas all types of Tigers produced a paltry 2,500 ( Tiger I, II, Elefant, Jagdtiger, and Sturmtiger) in three years.
The IS2 weighed the same as panther ( 45 tonnes ) plus the Jagdpanther was more than adequate as a TD.
The 12.8 cm L/61 sturer Emil could have been refined into a better TD/AG by mounting an enclosed superstructure similar in shape to the Jagdpanther; along with the Dicker Max.
These would have surpassed the need for stopgaps like the Marder, Nashorn, Wespe, and Hummel by adapting a similar design to the Soviet SU/ISU series, often called the Russian Stug’s.
Without all these unnecessary vehicles perhaps double the number of panthers could have been produced, along with the jagdpanther, Stug’s.
This would have been enough to fully equip 66 panzer divisions.
It may not have won the war, but could have changed its course by length.
Guys named "Sepp" tend to be bad-asses.
I just wanted to share some Interesting facts about Stüg crews..
-Stügheshutz crews @ mens proudly considered themselves as ArtilleryMen and they refused to be called Tank crews@men..
As their vehicles are SPGs not MBT.. they are trained as Artillery/SPG...
Their Main role or doctrine are as AFV and Infantry direct/indirect support before they were used as Anti Tank Blaster!
-Stug crews proudly wore the same Grey coloured of their Artillery unit uniform which slightly different in designs,Insignia and colours from standard Wërmach and SS armored unit uniform which is mainly black..
Wow..
I didnt expect to received a respond from fact bytes these quick let alone for a video posted a year ago that i commented..
This means Fact bytes crews are good and cool guys..
You guys deserved a subs from me! keep up all the good work and uploading more cool content gor all off us to watch and learn new facts about war and all the His-yory behind it all...
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First picture. Is taken june 6 1944 Enso Finland , 🇫🇮Mil parade , no German personel
Hero.
Germany vs Everybody.. Respect! ❤
STUG 3 was the best
Имей хорошего кинооператора и выигрывай после войны борьбу за умы !!!
@@user-uo1ff8yj5j The Finnish StuGs achieved 11-1 kill-loss ratio mainly against T-34/85s.
We salute these Warriors of God fighting for Europe against the Evil Sovietunion.
Fighting so hard and diligently for a lost cause.
He was fighting for his fatherland, no matter what.
1 bad ass dude
What year did he pass away in?
My favorite spg when i play war thunder and world of tanks
Is this kursk battle and Kharkov?
Neither. This is the defense of the Kurland and Königsberg by Army Group North in '44/45. The Soviets had started the offensive - Operation Bagration - in mid-August.
What a fine soldier Any country would be proud of them Germany is one
Of the best in everything
He was simply a fu**ing Nazi, who prolonged the war, that Germany has started and supported war crimes and atrocities against civilians. He is not a hero. No peace for Fascists.
Stugs in thumbnail are Finnish.
I had to pass by to say exactly that. The thumbnail picture is not from Courland pocket, it is from Karelian Isthmus, not to nitpick too much.
👍👍👍!!!
Where was air support?
How could the StuG III penetrate the Armour of an IS-2?
Tactics
video said it hit the spot between the turret and the body. Didn't need to penetrate armor to knock out the IS=2
"personally destroyed" driver, loader, gunner, and commander?
A true HERO and a very good soldier, as were most of ww2 german arm forces members.
Who had the scrap metal franchise after the war?
they are still digging out complete armor from rivers, bogs, swamps. put the relevant search words in the box, you'll be amazed at the videos that pop up.
Good video but you keep pronouncing it schtug. It's a sturmgeschutz, shortened to Stug.
Pronunciation is correct. Germans shove a 'ch' between the 's' and the 't' in words like sturm, stumm, stehen etc.
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Good story. Too bad you had to use random combat footage, rather than battle specific footage. But still a good job.
Germans was the best soldiers, it s fact. Each shot a hit
Released in 1948? Was it normal for such a delay in releasing prisoners?
That was incredibly early for prisoners who were captured by the Soviet Union. Most were starved & worked to death in the actual death camps.
Of course, one thing you never hear about is the British & American death camps. I've heard figures ranging up into the millions as far as prisoners who died in those.
A lot of people also like to forget that the Soviets & British were operating death camps as early as the 1920s. I'm sure India remembers the British ones, but the Soviet ones are largely glossed over in modern history.
@@gratefulguy4130 I believe we started the first concentration camps, in the Boer war, around 1902. It is interesting what aspects of history we forget.
@@mikebikekite1 Actually, I just happened to be looking into this earlier today & it seems like the first ones were started by the diamond cartels in South Africa. You're right about it being interesting what things are left out of our history classes.
The "authorities" are so wicked that you can pretty much just invert what they amplify or suppress to know what you should be looking into & what is merely propaganda.
He did all these things, with 3 armored vehicles and some infantry.... 😮. Trying to simply overwhelm an enemy is a bad tactic resulting in high casualties, same thing on the russian side today in Ukraine.
Heroes of the new Europe!
Another mistake of Hitler, the stug was cheap to create, why not improve it more and more instead of the panzer and tiger. No vulnerablity of the turret.
El Stug es un cañón de asalto y sus servidores son artilleros. Se ve claramente que no usan los uniformes negros de las tropas blindadas.
The Stug knocked out more Russian armor in the battle of Kursk than anything else.
Die Deutschen hatten die besten Waffen. Nur leider wie immer zu spät und zu wenig.