Comments by "" (@obsidianjane4413) on "Germany Adopts the PPSh in 9mm: the MP-41(r)" video.

  1. IIRC this wasn't a late war desperation move. I think in '42 when some of the huge stock of captured war booty from the entire Soviet armies that were defeated during Barbarossa started being moved back to Germany. The Germans were always interested/needed to absorb and reuse anything they captured. Starting with Czechoslovakia all the way to using captured Shermans in the final months of the war.
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  2. A true " MP-41(r) of the lake"...
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  3. The Germans pressed lots of "Beutegerät" captured enemy weapons of all kinds into service, and this is just one of them. They were issuing these to troops in lieu of MP-40s because of production shortages and desperate need for small arms. Not with any idea towards being compatible with Soviet ammo.
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