Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "Walther KKW: Competition Shooting in Nazi Germany" video.

  1. Büchse can mean three things in german language.1) A tin can, the other word is Dose. 2) Rifle. 3) Unofficial (!!!!) : The part of a womans body which is at the frontside between belly and legs. Flinte is a shotgun. Büchsflinte, Drilling (tripplet) and Vierling (quatrupplet) are hunting weapons with rifled AND smoothbore barrels. Gewehr (nowadays) : a fire arm which is not a pistol and can be carried by a single man (including some wallguns, puntguns, antimaterial rifles if they are not cannons). Gewehr (very oldfashioned): all kind of weapons. In some 18. century texts you can read of ,Obergewehr' / upper Gewehr for weapons carried on the shoulder ( polearms/muskets) and ,Untergewehr' for weapons carried at the belt (sabers and hangers). Ge... simply means ,a lot of', Gesang - a lot of singing or Geschrei- a lot of shouting. Here in Germany weapons are seen mostly as a bad thing, and most of the do not know the difference between knife and dagger, saber and sword, rifle and shotgun or pistol and revolver and use the words rather wrong. I am a man, only using my girlfriends account.
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