Just a plain ass bolt action for the absolute annoyance that was the nazi army. It’s fucking sobering to think about too. All that obnoxious propaganda, all those mandatory speeches, all that money wasted on stupid designs and constantly breaking firearms, and this ends up being the greatest thing these morons ever made. The strongest weapon to ever grace the hordes of fascistic scum is the most bland, mediocre, and uninspired rifle imaginable. The list of failures fascists have in their history is truly endless…
>>5346Yeah it was also inefficient and a pain in the ass to maintain; just like every other nazi trash ever developed. You want to know why I’m particularly disappointed? Footsoldiers, I.e. riflemen made up at least 90% of the entire German military. Imagine being the dickheads stuck with that dumbass Buddhist drug addicted dick-tator and then realizing every weapon in your military is overpriced trash while the only useful thing available to you is a shitty carbine. All that slave labour, recruitment, propaganda, and funding was a fucking waste, and anybody that joined that stupid war got duped.
>>5350They also were hard to make and hard, hard to maintain, and hard to repair. The German army at its highest only had around 1500 of them compared to the zones of thousands available to both the soviets and the American militaries throughout the entire war.
>the amount of nazi sympathizers in this thread
This shit is why teaching history accurately is important. None of you idiots are catching on to how much of an utter joke fascists actually fucking are. Just like with confederates, these morons aren’t just evil for their shit ideas, but the fact that these morons are in fact fucking stupid. NATO media portrays nazis as competent fighters when in reality most of their military was full of teenagers, druggies, and illiterates using horses and marches to get anywhere while nearly every other state surrounding them had motorcycles, APCs, and trucks at that point. Most of the shitty tech that these fuckers even got were the byproducts of having billions thrown at their dumbass industries by central banks, and even then, their dumbass drug addicted leader ended up being historically anti intellectual and against technology anyways. The entire nazi economy was the byproduct of being thrown endless loans and funds that ultimately fueled the debt that took the German republic decades to get out of with the support of the American government.
Nearly every point in nazi history is filled with freak incidents of incompetence, violence, wastefulness, and mediocrity. Nazism is a fucking cancer along with the naive Israelis, Slavs, and Mexicans that support this trash ideology.
>>5355and you failed to even mention the mystical esoteric schizo madness kek
what about Strasserism tho, they seemed not so terrible
>>5344the MG 42 is great i got to shoot it many times and i always had a blast.
It is a clunker to carry though
>>5355>NATO media portrays nazis as competent fightersThe rest of Europe must have been really pathetic then since with the exception of Britain and the USSR they were all conquered and occupied by them.
>their military was full of teenagers, druggies, and illiteratesIts nice that the Nazis allowed all the non-drug addicted, literate, military aged men to sit out the war.
>while nearly every other state surrounding them had motorcycles, APCs, and trucks at that pointFirst off, that's not true. The German army was more mechanized than most others at the start of the war, though by the late war they were significantly less mechanized by the major allies, especially the US. That being said, I fail to see how lacking the industrial capacity to mechanized as fully as other armies makes them "stupid".
>Nearly every point in nazi history is filled with freak incidents of incompetence, violence, wastefulness, and mediocrity. True, but they were still pretty fucking dangerous and managed to slaughter tens of millions of people and conquer multiple countries. I don't see why hating them has to mean acting like they weren't a serious threat.
>>5355>>5364it's also illusionary to believe that there was some kind of coherence and discipline within the state apparatus. everything was a constant shit show of overlapping competencies, nepotism, corruption, sabotage and infighting.
for example, there was, until the war ended, constant warring between Goebbel's Ministry of Propaganda and Rust's Ministry of Science, Education and National Culture in regard to censorship of libraries. Both circulated lists containing verboten books and texts (other political entities did as well). The lists were mostly based on vibes, so anything deemed bolshevik or marxist was banned. The lists contradicted each other, no one librarian ever was sure which list was correct as they contradicted each other and themselves constantly. Also, up until the end, state and university libraries where except from actual destruction of banned books. Some locked them away for researchers, some had them publicly displayed with a note that stated as much as 'pls only for science, danke'.
Public libraries were less lucky, they got purged quite well. The substitued political scribes where not well liked and the public went to private librabries instead.
>>5355You’re either trying to undermine the sacrifice of the Soviet Union and various partisan units by claiming that the fascist war machinery simply defeated itself because of sheer incompetence OR you use whatever ideology you hold as replacement-religion where things invented under an enemy ideology is icky, has magical properties and is cursed, so it can’t be copied.
Thankfully the military minds of the USSR weren’t dogmatic retards, so good things were instantly copied, like mountaineering gear, jerry cans, V2s, cameras, optics and many more things.
Not a single T-26 tanker went “Oh wooow this T-26 is a copy of the Vickers 6-Ton I really feel inadequate now!”
On the contrary, being scared of copying enemy designs is actually hurting the war effort.
>>5355the nazis were powerful because germany is a relatively large country in europe that also has more industrial capital
they also benefited from heavily militarizing at a time when most european nation-states werent prepared for war at all, and had meager standing militaries
of course, this advantage would end when they came across the british empire as well as the newly industrialized soviet union, and then finally the americans who were doing a ton of government spending including into military at the time thanks to the new deal
>>5344They invented the GPMG and quick change barrels
>MG 34: The Pioneer of Quick-Change Barrels>The MG 34 (Maschinengewehr 34) was a groundbreaking general-purpose machine gun that incorporated several innovative features: Quick-Change Barrel System< The MG 34 allowed for rapid barrel changes, addressing the problem of overheating during sustained fire2< This feature was crucial for maintaining the weapon's high rate of fire without compromising its effectiveness in prolonged engagements.MG42 is just an all around improvement of it. All the FN MGs that are basically NATO standard are based on this. Yugoslavia also converted a bunch.
>>5344That weapon isn't even nazi and in their autistic Kraut space magic, the nazis have made absolute banger weapons. Rockets, jet engine the type XXI, the first assault rifle, the best machine gun ever…
The tanks were a great example of everything right and wrong for every side.
Krauts went autistic and tailored one million halftrack models and overengineered fuel drinkers, capitalists had more industries than reasonably needed and made tanks like carriers: good but produced not to win the war but because the friend who own the factory said the economic crisis would evaporate if we just give him more money, while Stalin said quantity have a quality on its own, half the T34 broke on their way to the front, half of the remainings were destroyed and the other quarter made a parade in Berlin.
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