Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "Panzer II: Workhorse of \"Blitzkrieg\"" video.

  1. So they lost the war was because they replaced panzer II ?
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  2. Marder II, reconnaissance became the uses. I would guess some became flamethrowers or training tanks as well. And it could perhaps fight partisans.
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  3. ​ @papaaaaaaa2625  Germany realized in 1941 that this tank was hopelessly underpowered so they put a 75mm gun on it and made a tank destroyer out of it which they called Marder II. Panzer 2 is a light tank while panzer III was a medium. So building StuG would not be possible. It would become too much weight. First you need all extra armour, and then you need a big heavy gun on top of a light tank chassi. It is much cheaper, faster and easier to then just remove the turret of a panzer II and put a big gun and no armour at all on it. And sIG 33 was a popular gun. Artillery guns gets exponentially more fire power as you increase the diameter of a gun - so a 150mm calibre was a great boost of fire power on the battlefield compared to a tiny 75mm. Especially in the early years in the war would this tank had a huge boost in firepower. It could probably knock out more than a room in a building with one hit. So it was valuable for infantry support. But its problem was that it lacked armor protection for its crew - and a weak chassi of a panzer 1 or panzer 2 would probably not allow for any more armor than it already had. And the 2nd problem was that the recoil from the big gun was too much for a little tank too handle so there was a risk that this tank could start to flip over if you hadn't put it on flat ground.
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  4. Why did farming become so dangerous in 1944 and 1945 that they needed jagdtigers, sturmtigers and Maus?
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