Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “Volkssturmgewehr: A Rifle Born of Desperation” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/gustloff-volkssturmgewehr-rifles-born-of-desperation/.
Volkssturmgewehr: A Rifle Born of Desperation
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frostyjhammer
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Wow... a firearm article where the word 'casing' is correctly applied! That is rare.
One slight problem. The Nazis were authoritarian but not socialist. All socialists and communists were sent to penal work camps in 1934. Nazis did include socialism in their name, but this was an attempt to get socialists in to the party. Socialists were see as the “Hipsters” of the era. But since socialists tended to try to move the party to the left, Hitler banished them from the party. And then started to round them up along with communists.