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- Hugo Primozic was one of Germany's Sturmgeschütz(StuG) aces during World War II and was noted for his quick reactions, clever tactical use of ground and the icy nerve which in tense situations enabled him to hold his fire until his opponent had closed to point-blank range.
Primozic joined the Sturmartillerie as a platoon leader in the newly formed German StuG Battalion 667 at the end of June 1942.
On 15 September 1942 the Russians launched a heavy tank and infantry assault in the area of the battalion. Hugo Primozic and two other assault guns drove forward to engage the attacking enemy. The battle was fierce, with Primozic and his two wingmen repositioning constantly to avoid being destroyed themselves. However the Russian attack was defeated, and Primozic’s StuG alone destroyed 24 tanks on that day.
He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on September 19, 1942 promoted to Staff Sergeant.
In the five months from September 1942 to January 1943, Hugo Primozic destroyed 60 enemy tanks and was awarded both the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross and the Oak Leaves. Hugo Primozic was the first non commissioned officer in the Wehrmacht to be awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight’s Cross and one of only seven NCOs in total to receive the Oak Leaves.
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he didnt choose the stug life, the stug life chose him
Nice one!
My Opa was a Panzerjager in the 8th PD. He said they didn’t keep track of kills. It wasn’t something they did. Many of the kills are shared kills and it was just doing the job that counted. When I asked him how many tanks he killed he got angry and said keeping track of how many men you killed is something you just don’t do
I like him. My Opa was Luftwaffe FLAK. Omg, he died in Fulda which is where my family is from. Sad I never met him.
@@foedspaghetti3290 Respect from an old American stationed in Fulda. Love German history.
Salute him for me. Sounds like a real warrior.
Some didn't, some did. The one who did paint a white ring on their tank's barrel
Otto Carius said the same thing about recording kills. Mainly the propaganda people talked about tank "aces' to boost moral of the people.
In Finland 1944 one Stug shot six soviet tanks to fire under one minute, until its cannon jammed. It was best anti-tank weapon in Finland. In tense forest it was nearly invisible and it was can move on soft terrain.
You are delusionnal. There was no stug in Finland in 1944. The red army had freed Leningrad in january 1944.
There was stugs in Finland
@@halaljalalgaems6970 useless !
@@antoinemozart243 There was. they took part in battles such as Tali-ihantala.
@@antoinemozart243 Leningrad is not in Finland.
Respect from Finland, your brothers in arms.
Welcome to NATO , send some tanks to Ukraine
The Finns beat Russia a long time ago.😂
Nice to hear that such a brave man got back home from the war in one piece
He's interviewed in one of the episodes of "greatest tank battles".it's on TH-cam.He's charismatic and highly intelligent.
Brave soldier ! Like many others! Respect and ....r.i.p.
I’m glad he survived
good job glad he survied the war
Excellent work to all who put this together.
The odds of them against the Allies are off.
RIP crew.
He and his crew fought bravely.
The Stug just looks tough, plus it was a good, sensible machine, unlike a few of their designs
It was very tough and even more deadly, especially when it was operated by a good crew...it's catastrophic kills during the war were so much higher than any of the other German tanks, including the Big Cats.
It was also Germany most produced tank during ww2 and was designed by Manstein himself as an infantry support tank for storming fortifications but ended up being used in an anti tank role.
My favorite WW2 AFV.
maybe the Stug was one of the reasons why the Soviets went for low profile MBTs.....they lost so much to well concealed Stugs....
...and cost effective. Building Stugs instead of the Bismarck would have given the Wehrmacht an advantage during the attack on the Sowjetunion.
AFAIK the cannon was not fixed, but had a swivel range of 24° azimuth -12° + 12° , and could bei elevated -10° and +20° or 30° in total. Also its excellent optics provided a much better situational awareness compared to other tanks.
I think what they meant by "fixed" was the StuG's lack of a 360° traversable turret......the Hull casemate being fixed
Just because you don't have a turret, it doesn't mean that you can't turn the tank! It's just not ideal for attacking fast moving targets because of the inability to keep the sight on the target, which doesn't apply to turreted vehicles (if they can coordinate their actions to keep the gun on target).
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"Kinda of" fixed. That little traverse was more meant for accurate aiming, but i suppose crews just aimed the vehicle, particularly in short ranges.
In my humble opinion, the StuG was one of the very best combat vehicles of the Second World War. I had the right mix of mobility protection, firepower. It was as reliable as any of that period. Plus they were not hard to produce in the strapped war economy of Germany at the time.
It was a bucket of crap that was cheap to produce. It's best claim was that it was better than nothing
Last of the stugs ware used in 6day war.. . Hows that for a bucket of crap!!? Scotty
@@MagpieOz if the STUG was a bucket of crap,then ALL Allied and Soviet Union armoured vehicles were buckets of crap also....
The Stug III had the most kills of any armored vehicle in WWII with over 30,000 Soviet tanks destroyed alone. That isn't including the Western Front.
@@MagpieOz If you think it was a bucket of crap I'd love to hear what you think about all those shitty open top tank destroyers fielded by various armies.
He knew the maps by heart, he went to strategic positions fast, he knew where to place some kill shots, he wasn't Gaijined.
You confuse strategy and tactics. After Rjev nobody Heard of him. The Red Army didnt give a f!!! about tactics.
@@antoinemozart243 /whooosh !
@@scratchy996 🤣🤣🤣👍
@@scratchy996ballistically over me head
Actually, The Stug's were responsible for more tank kills, than all Panzers Models and other Tank Destroyers put together.
Specialy the StugIII with the Long 75mm L/48 High Velocity Pak 40.
Cheap and Simple to produce but Devastating on the Battlefields of WW2.
The StugIII is the Ultimate Tank Killer of WW2.
Do you have any reference to that claim?? I know that STUG was by far the most numerous AFV in German hands, and it should be fairly easy for it to have more kills than any panzer type in particular, but it still seems too far-fetched that it has more kills than all panzers together...
Certainly.
@@armija i was in the military for 34 years, and finish my career, as a Coronel of Cavalery.
And during my career, specely, in the first 5 years, we have, what we called "high military studies", in my case, more focus in modern Cavalary ( or tanks, and every armored veichle). During that studies, we studie, the part of mecanical warfare, since it started.
All the conflicts, around the world, doctrines, strategies, etc, etc... And specely the veichles involved, in those conflicts. Besides that, i attended, numerous internacional gatherings, of scholars and militarys, of all countries belonging to OTAN, and severel others. During all those years, i was "collecting" information, not only for my career, but at a personal level, since i was a small boy, i remember, saying to my parents, that i wanted to be a tank comander.
I could be here all Day long, by i think you are smart, and know my point.
Apreciate your question.
Regards.
That's not true. The Tigers alone had circa 10,000 kills.
@@lyndoncmp5751 yes its true. Do a proper research.
Excellent work Sir.
Thank you for the history moment.
I never knew about until now.
Well done here.
"The Shturm-gesh-gutz" ... that's a new one
"Hugo Primozick" lmao gold
XD, where he took the second g from?
thank you for having a nicely detailed report without any propaganda flourishes 🙂
What a brave man RIP
You have become one of my favorite TH-camrs in the last month, the content is top notch and your research is well done. Thank you for the history!
Yes, The Soviets had previously invided Finnland and then Poland together with the Germans.
Fortunately the Stugs have played a positive role on both sides of the front, helping Finnland and those overran undully. An unique idea of helping infantry. Thank you for the presentation. Paul.66,
Well done, I have never heard of him!
Nice to see he survived the war
Nice to see tank aces other than heavy tank commander. Knispel, Withman, Carrius, we know them very well, but what about the others who fought with medium tanks. This is a nice approach. Very good video, and well narrated. You got my subscription, keep it coming
The requirement that it had to be smaller than a standing man helped a lot with camouflage. The fact that most were manned by the artillery core and not the tank core meant that they were not charging into battle but waiting in ambush, and their aim was better as well they delivered the first shot with precision.
One brave man glad he survived
Not many videos on STUGs out there, Looking for more of such good videos ❤️❤️❤️
Love these workhorse of war. Thanks for sharing, appreciate it a lot. Greets from the Netherlands 🌷, T.
a true warrior like his cause or not
Damn, Primozic nailed 24 russian Cykas in a single day! What a chad.
U know u might offend many Russians right?
@@tuttipuffi1302 they'll get over it.
@@tuttipuffi1302 Well the Russians god bless them suffered more losses than they should have. You know that they didn't put two-way radio communication in all their tanks till late in the war, most lend-lease stuff from the US. Not zeroing in the main Gun to save ammo was another thing. They had problems but managed never the less. I don't think the Russians would be offended at all. They don't re-write history just to feel better.
Primozic... Haha slovenians and croatians have allways been best germans...
Almost certainly a lie.
Most of Michael Wittmann's tank kills came when he was the commander of a Stug.
Sorry but no...
Most of Wittman's tank kills came out of the fanciful mind of the Nazi propaganda ministry
Sorry but no... Black baron did his shit very good.... He was great comander... But!!!..nazzi propaganda did oversize it... And they have done oposite to Kurt Knispel couse he was a poor nazzi... If u ask me Knispel iz no1
@@WOTgameplaychorantauluka he’s definitely a top tank ace
@@WOTgameplaychorantauluka sorry but no, all the "Tank Aces" were complete fabrications.
Wittmann's record on the verifiable Western Front, two engagements in which he was knocked out in both and the second one he was killed. He knocked out around 6 to 8 unoccupied tanks, some even unarmed but was credited with the destruction of 22
"Black Baron" - LOL, what a lot of wank
Outstanding video and presentation.
Sweetest looking tank destroyer. If I had to pick the stug with a panzer 4 and the 75mm long gun on it.
The best Army in the whole history
The most professional army to ever walk the face of the earth.
Bravo, great story. Thanks!
Father was Slovenian ....mother German .... So 50% Slovenian, 50% German .... 100% Badass
And 100 % destroyed !
@@antoinemozart243 he died in 1996 ...
@@zebradgr8339 German ? Badass ? 100 % destroyed in 1945 !
@@antoinemozart243 I understand what you wrote. The 3rd Reich was destroyed but ...no, he was not. They lost the war but he died in 1996. He survived the war. Regardless the side he fought for and his nationality, he achieved a remarkable combat score ...So unless you have a different meaning to the word destroyed ....
@@nikolic016 ...bosanc zrolan :D
StuG is not a tank and was extremely lethal when used to its strengths: ambush, concealment, movement, coordination, as evidenced by being the reigning champion tank destroyer of all time with well over 20000 kills.
The Rhzev Meat Grinder: Zhukov's greatest defeat according to Glantz.
Michael Wittmann was first appointed as a STUG III commander ...later to become one of the greatest tank aces
Glantz is wrong on this . Zhukov didnt prepare well Mars ( Rjev) . He worked mainly on Uranus. If Rjev was a meatgrinder, it was absolutely useless. When Uranus succeeded, Model and this idiot Primozic retreated at an olympic speed , 😂😂😂
@@antoinemozart243 Good decision when out of ammunition !
@@bubiruski8067 yeah Any excuse is better than none when the Germans ran out of ammo they improvised and fought with anything they could lay their hands on They were not cowards that ran away at high speed so that even today you can smell the rubber from the Russian boots
They did not choose Stug life
Stug life chose them
My hail to U Primazic and to all that kind of heroes !!
Seeing a turret rotate of a T-34 and the round bounce off your tank. Must leave a little brown stain in your shorts. Then the KV heavy did the same, holy crap! Props to the loader and gunner also.
The stug was literally the most effective German combat machine of the war
No it was just the most numerous.
Tigers had a far higher kill ratio circa 10:1.
The Stug never had anywhere near that ration. Crew survivability was much lower in a Stug as well.
Nearly 12,000 were produced. That's why they had the most kills.
Great weapon and good with working closely with the soldiers and just helping out all along the lines
God bless these man!
Great video broo
This will be that one TD that will wipe out your team while being unspotted.
I heard my father who fought against the German Army in Italy and in France during WWII as a 1st Sergeant Fox Company 442nd RCT and soldiers do not keep track of how many soldiers they killed. He said that his company counted all of the soldiers they killed at the end of a battle and calculated kill ratios. He met a number of German WWII fighter aces including Erich Hartmann when he worked with the US Air Force.
A perfect ace for the most succesful anti-tank destroyer!
According to US tanker, stug 3 low profile make it very difficult to spot.I assume the soviet may have similiar problem.
Great video
StuGIII, the best tank destroyer of WWII with the most tank kills of Any vehicle!
The tanks are lifeless machines. They are not, "killed". The *people* inside are killed though. Thousands upon thousands of people died in tanks during W.W.II.
@@HiTechOilCo That is why these Machines are often referred to as TANK DESTROYER’S…. StuGIII, IV!!!!!!
Brave MAN! RIP
Very good .more please
Now a days playing company of heroes 2 and I really enjoy playing with warmacht Tanks especially stug 3 and Tiger.
That makes two of us but I use infantry, elite infantry of German army obersoldaten, panzerfusiler volksgrenadier,fallshirmsjager, stormtrooper, assault grenadier, panzergrenadier,grenadiers,sturmpios, and standard like etc.👍
@@kenjijohnsonsanzenin3388 Fallschirmjager with FG42 are most brutal and to be honest I never played company of heroes other than Germans😄
Well Wittmann had quite a few kills in his Stug.
Credited with 60 but kill numbers likely much higher
Wow, what a guy.
GREAT STORY THANX
Destroyed 60 Soviet tanks eh, something that a Sherman with it's rotating turret could never do, high profile would have been a disadvantage too.
Also the Shermans and soviets were on the same side at the time, probably wouldn't be very popular move destroying 60 allied tanks.. Although I'm sure Patton would approve lol.
@@herbertgearing1702 LOL Patton would have approved anyway, blue on blue no problem Murrican.
@@FairladyS130 Americans don't have a friendly fire problem, we're just so good at war nobody else can kill us and that's why you heat about our blue on blue.
@@Gegengrupenfuhrur You need to look at US infantry casualty figures before making rash comments.
Hell of a nice bloke
The Stug was a better vehicle with less breakdowns and easy to work on. Similar to the Soviets T-34 which was a very good tank design! . The Panther and Tiger Tank had numerous problems with their transmissions, drivetrains, turrets, and other mechanical problems! The stug was from a well-tested panzer 3 and 4 designs!
Imagine if the Stug III's & IV's were expanded upon & upgraded more than building Hetzers, Marder III's,, Jagdpanzers IV's ?
@@rscott2247 Hard to say but I would guess the soviets would have lost more tanks and lives. The Soviets out produced Germany in tanks, aircraft and support vehicles. So, Hitler would have still lost in the long run!
@@ricktoffer01 no if just germany give some design to its allies like italy or bulgaria,romania,hungary.They can produce deadly tank that can match with the soviets tank and the allied tanks.
@@rscott2247 As Richard said before none of that would change the outcome of the war. It is common what if food for thought for many people in relation to German weapons of WW2, the reality is that Germany was so outmatched in industrial capacity and resource production that they would most definitely lose war regardless of how they managed their war production and which in particular weapons they produced sooner or later or in greater and smaller numbers. Yes they might have inflicted bigger losses to allies, yes they might have extended war for a couple of months more, but the outcome would still be the same. Russians alone produced 110.000 tanks in WW2 and bear in mind that they actually started to scale down production in the beginning of 45. Germans produced some 45.000 in total of all types. Soviets alone mobilized some 35 million men to fight in WW2, Germany mobilized some 14 million in total. Soviets produced and fielded some 520.000 artillery guns, Germans produced and fielded some 70.000. Tonnage of ammunition produced and used is some 4 times larger in Soviet favour and bear in mind that Germans used quite a bit of their ammunition on other fronts while Soviets almost exclusively used theirs against Germans so that disparity is actually even bigger, and so on and so forth... this is just to show how Soviets alone outproduced Germans, not even to mention other allies. In short Germany had no chance to win a war regardless of several thousands of vehicles of either kind being or not being produced...
Thanks? for repeating what's in the clip
PS.
Great breakdown of the history of the deadly anti tank vehicle.
Love the Panzer III, and its relative. Both best tanks in my opinion. But that's me. 😁
Other SPW's and 'improvised' SPW's also contributed importantly to knocking out soviet tanks, and conducting night attacks on soviet armor and anti tank guns.
Just goes to show you that a well made stug used with great skill and tactics blew away vastly superior enemy numbers even against the supposedly best tanks the Soviets had to offer. Superior training and motivation made the day.
Bravo naši, na juriš :P
The STUG was the armoured vehicle that ticked all the boxes.....The Nazi regime wasted so much materials and resources on elaborate, overweight vehicles...Tiger2,Ferdinands,Jagdtigers......Also far too many varieties of armoured machines.....Keeping things simple, is more often than not,the best way to make progress.....The STUG family, accounted for the majority of Allied and Soviet Union armoured losses....Another great feature FactBytes....!
I highly Agree!!!
my opinion too. Hitlers drugs had been the "wonderweapons" with poor military effects in the end of the war. Example: the V1 killed more slave labors than Londoners. Instead the V1 the should have build 1 Million surface to air missiles...
@@barfuss2007 Very well Said!!!
@@CT9905.
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Great story
Glad you enjoyed it
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mass producing the STUG 3 makes better sense than wasting time building tigers
You might want to read Otto Carius's book, "Tigers in the Mud", to see how effectively Tigers tanks were on the Eastern Front. He actually served using both kinds of armor. There was a role for both types of fighting vehicles.
I thought this was going to be a Mark Felton video.... Anyone else conditioned by Mark Felton?
M big fan of Mark Felton's video especially tank battles.
Me too
Felton is in a class of his own.
Conditioned enough that I hear his intro music in my head when someone mentions his name.
Watched a video of his, found a big mistake that affects half of the video, wrote a polite comment to point it out. How did he fix it? By hiding my comment.
RIP Sir and your crew.
The Stug life chose Hugo Primozic
You just don't mix Germans and Slovens without consequences.
He was an artillery man, not a tanker. Stugs used as panzers had different and less effective tactics.
The reason for that was the fact the StUG were part of the artillery only later in the war there were transfers from the tank weapon to STUG and back
Obsolete, but I want a StuG.
Stug looks cool
Wermacht specially the Heer probably got the most well descipline and effective soldiers..
it is StuG life😎
The wolrd divide in preys and hunters. Instinct of a real hunter !
A true Hero.
You caught this pokiemon with the stug master ball I mean masterpiece well whatever I subscribe.
My all time fave WoT vehicle.
StuG Life!!!
I wonder how it would be if Wehrmacht had focused on building the Stugs and Panzer 4 instead of wasting resources on the Heavy Tanks.
They would still lose but they probably would have held far longer and be far more effective.
You can't compare stugs and heavy tanks like that. Both types had different intended purposes. The tiger for example was designed as a heavy breakthrough combat vehicle, to lead the spearhead and drawing and withstand all the heavy fire, so that light armored tanks like panzer 3 and 4 could move and work on the flanks. The goal was to punch trough enemy lines so that following mobile troops could encircle enemy formations. Stug's and Stuh's had more the role of infantery support and were used far more in ambush positions, where the biggest weakness of the stugs (the missing mobile turret) was not that big of a handicap as it was on attack runs. And it is in the nature of weapon systems which got used mainly in ambush positions to have a better kill/death ratio. Attack maneuvers are considered always as more costly as defending maneuvers if the attacking side does not have overwhelmingly better firepower. I think the average caculation in second world war was something around factor 1,5 attackers needed to beat 1 defender.
Nazi Germany never had the resources to sustain and win that stupid war. The best tank design in the world means nothing if there is no fuel to run it and Nazi Germany was critically short of fuel all throughout W.W.II. Secondly, they never had the industrial capacity to even come close to the U.S.A. alone. When the U.S. lost a tank in battle, there were thousands waiting in reserve. When Nazi Germany lost a tank in battle, it too months to replace. Can't win a war like that.
Only reason Germany lost was it was trying to fight to many fronts at once
Wow they should make a movie about that .
Was that a shell ejecting mad man at 4:42 ish
HEROI
cool
Love the vid, one remark though, pronounciation is more like "Sturm ge shoots" then "sturm jeskits".
Imagine what he would have done with a tiger
24 tanks in one days. Doesn't seem possible. You think the gun would warp out of tolerances.
Lmao you’re a commie
Herói.
Primožić, a true Aryan.
The youngest officer awarded with knight cross.
👍 👍 👍
didnt know him thanks factbytes!
Born in my hometown :-)
If they (Germans) had built these in large numbers over the tigers and Panthers the war in the East might have had direct results.