Heinrich Himmler Engraved Sauer 38h Pistol Presented to Sniper With Over 100 Kills!

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  • Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
  • This is a very exciting video! Tom shows us a Sauer 38h pistol that was signed by Heinrich Himmler and presented to a sniper in the Nazi army with over 100 kills!
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  • @para1324
    @para1324 4 года назад +100

    I agree completely. History should not be forgotten. No matter the artifact whether paper or weapons should be preserved. The derringer used agains Lincoln and many such weapons are preserved from our American past. Thank you for your channel. 👍🇺🇸

    • @anthonybonomo5670
      @anthonybonomo5670 4 года назад +1

      Great video. Very informative. History should be preserved.

    • @keithwittman4741
      @keithwittman4741 3 года назад

      This is fitting to in the present, we are watching activists take down historic statues.

    • @DelGTAGrndrs
      @DelGTAGrndrs 3 года назад +2

      @@keithwittman4741 modern history if you ask me... although I disagree with destroying the statues they should be removed from public view and put in museums for people who WANT to see that kind of stuff.

    • @ostrich67
      @ostrich67 2 года назад

      @@keithwittman4741 Your shitty Confederate statues should be melted down and turned into Lincoln pennies.

    • @keithwittman4741
      @keithwittman4741 2 года назад +1

      @@ostrich67 they are history. I am not confederate. Just a dam Yankee from NY.

  • @SandSoldierPrep
    @SandSoldierPrep 4 года назад +7

    Sir, I am a US Army veteran that served in combat and lost friends there. You are doing a great job telling the true stories of our past!! You are doing a great job so please drive on with the stories and finds.

    • @bold810
      @bold810 Год назад

      Hey, Vet. THAT'S HIMMLER'S PISTOL PRESENTED TO A COWARDLY SNIPER, WHO MURDERED 100 EITHER AMERICANS, BRITISH, ALLIED RUSSIANS OR OTHER PEOPLE FIGHTING AGAINST A COWARD PEOPLE THAT HAD TO MASSACRE MILLIONS ON THE CHEAP. YOU ARE STOLEN HONOR. PERIOD.

  • @TurfSurf
    @TurfSurf 4 года назад +109

    History is history, never get political. I totally agree with you on your point. That's why I like this channel!

    • @hillaryconstable4283
      @hillaryconstable4283 4 года назад +1

      History is politics!

    • @victortamini847
      @victortamini847 4 года назад +2

      The victors write the story.

    • @spongebob7296
      @spongebob7296 3 года назад

      @@victortamini847 no they dont.

    • @tacleohjoe7577
      @tacleohjoe7577 3 года назад

      Don’t tell that to America

    • @joeyfotofr
      @joeyfotofr 3 года назад +1

      History is always political. Most of it is written by the winners, who distort the motivation of the anguished. However, in the case of Nazis, they were as despicable as history remembers them. In fact, it is distressing that som eof the stench of Nazism is wafting away. That's not to say that Nazis didn't have great guns and even better uniforms... Facts are facts.

  • @larryferguson3387
    @larryferguson3387 4 года назад +5

    I have been fortunate to have owned a few Nazi pistols and other items. When I was a boy we ran a country store, we sold groceries, hardware, gas, guns, etc! I knew all the Veterans in our small town and they sold my step father all kinds of swords, knives, guns, and other Nazi items they brought home from the war.

  • @chrisnutley5747
    @chrisnutley5747 4 года назад +4

    This channel is fantastic! I am a gun-owner, (not a collector), and an avid historian. I appreciate your comments that some will take "offense" to the troublesome realities of war and death. I am continually fascinated that there are so many people who take history as a personal attack on them. Good or bad...history is just that....HISTORY. The challenge is for us to learn from it, as to not repeat the horrors, and to identify the dangerous path that leads to destruction. Thank you!

  • @licha5050
    @licha5050 3 года назад +2

    its History....and its awesome to see all the guns, dig the vids thank you

  • @mebodeck
    @mebodeck 3 года назад +9

    Sepp Allerberger wrote a book about his sniper life on the eastern front: The memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knights Cross ( German title: Im Auge des Jägers / In the eye of the hunter ) War was so brutal on the eastern front...... Stay healthy, greetings from Germany

  • @overthetopmartialartsschoo6111
    @overthetopmartialartsschoo6111 4 года назад +10

    100% agree about learning the history. I was actually watching a story about Himmler on AHCH today. Nice gun.

  • @alanaldpal950
    @alanaldpal950 4 года назад +39

    So do people that take issue with collecting something like this also think we should dispose of 2,000 year old Greek or Roman swords and spears because they were probably used to inflict terrible harm on someone?

    • @trevorphillips4595
      @trevorphillips4595 4 года назад +4

      Most people suffer for the selective amnesia.

    • @maximusextreme3725
      @maximusextreme3725 4 года назад +5

      If you're woke you tear down statues and want anything from history that was violent to be destroyed. Welcome to the new U.S. of A.

    • @jtwu8931
      @jtwu8931 4 года назад +3

      People who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat the same mistake. Artifacts are merely a mirror of what was going on and the people involved.

    • @jtwu8931
      @jtwu8931 4 года назад

      1 2 that’s what she said

    • @jaymuzzy5069
      @jaymuzzy5069 3 года назад +1

      Totally different the swords that they used were used too battle each other bot a German as pistol that killed a naked jew in a trench u fucken asshole

  • @synchrome62
    @synchrome62 3 года назад +4

    The Germans mostly used 4x and 6x (Zielvier and Zielsechs) magnification scopes. The older PE scope and PEM (adds a focus ring) Russian scopes (Zeiss knockoffs!!) were 4x. The PU scope (derived from the SVT-38/40 scope) was a 3.5 power. So these relatively low magnifications should elevate the feats of the WW2 snipers even more!!!!!

  • @bassassassinnn7459
    @bassassassinnn7459 4 года назад +41

    I'll say a few things for the people that have a problem with Nazi artifacts. I'm Jewish (non practicing), and my grandmother was a holocaust survivor and was in Ravensbruck and Helmsbrecht, and survived the death march to Volary. She was tough as nails, and until her death 2 years ago she still had shrapnel in her body from Nazi grenades that were being thrown at slaves and enemies when the camp was being liberated. She told me a few important things, one of them being that we can never shy away from the past no matter how horrible it was. If we do that we are bound to repeat certain aspects of it. She spoke of some unbelievable living and working conditions, and the smell of rotting corpses that would be left in the barracks for days. She also kept a variety of Nazi objects ranging from flags, coins, war medals, tea pots with insignias, and a handful of pistols that my grandfather brought home from the war. So to all the people complaining about the history, please take a step back and realize that history is one of, if not, the most important lessons we can learn from life. That is also one of the most beautiful pistols I've ever seen. Ian McCollum also has a video on one of these pistols on his channel Forgotten Weapons as well if anyone is interested.

    • @thomaswhiteman4261
      @thomaswhiteman4261 4 года назад +8

      Thanks for sharing your views as well as the story of your grandmother. Their stories must be told

    • @theDiamondHenley
      @theDiamondHenley 4 года назад

      ROFL!

    • @bernard4007
      @bernard4007 4 года назад +2

      from someone who likes guns in general: in my opinion, turn it as you may, there really is nothing beautiful about a gun that references a monster and was given to Nazis to kill innocent life, - nevertheless, everyone has to decide on their own conscience

    • @bassassassinnn7459
      @bassassassinnn7459 4 года назад +1

      @Priv Pers are you talking to me?

    • @bassassassinnn7459
      @bassassassinnn7459 4 года назад +5

      @Priv Pers if you're telling me I'm uneducated or lack personal experience, then you're completely wrong. History is history to me. Ugly history is still history. You don't have to like it, but your response was quite shallow.

  • @stoneblue1795
    @stoneblue1795 4 года назад +3

    Great Sunday night viewing here, thanks Tom. Shared it with a shooting chum of mine that will appreciate as well.

  • @miketabback2635
    @miketabback2635 4 года назад +1

    Another winning video and your commentary was spot on. Thanks again. Mike from NJ

  • @X3RUBIM
    @X3RUBIM 3 года назад +3

    "to the sharpshooter" is the correct translation of the engraving. As in "a gift to".

  • @TOMAS-lh4er
    @TOMAS-lh4er 4 года назад +3

    HEY BOSS ! THIS was such a great video, I learned alot , as always ,thanks !!

  • @wubaru
    @wubaru 4 года назад +106

    Great video! Don’t listen to the haters who don’t like what you collect.

    • @vanscoyoc
      @vanscoyoc 4 года назад

      Throw your money away on fake repros...bad ones.

    • @mattberg6816
      @mattberg6816 4 года назад +1

      Howie Felterbush I didn’t know not condoning genocide was a virtue

    • @letmechangemyyoutubename1554
      @letmechangemyyoutubename1554 4 года назад

      @@mattberg6816 i mean it technically is, just a pretty low bar for a virtue, just like murder lol

    • @keithwittman4741
      @keithwittman4741 3 года назад +1

      Ya,they are the one that cover there eyes (like a child) at anything that scares them. Mostly "Karen's" ... then at any age stomp there feet.saying "IT'S NOT FAIR!!!!"🤣🤣

    • @joeyfotofr
      @joeyfotofr 3 года назад +2

      No, Tom, listen to the haters, as you did. They are right to hate what the Nazis stood for. Collecting their weapons, as you do, or collecting their books, as I do, does not honor Nazis. It serves as a reminder of the powerful threat to human decency ideologies of hate represent. Burying the past perpetuates ignorance of faded memory. Relics of the Nazis remind is of the threat racist mass hysteria represents. We must never forget it.
      P.S. I've studied this period of history for 50 years, including doing original research, and today I learned things from you, that I've never before heard or read. Thank you...jt

  • @timothymorrell4023
    @timothymorrell4023 4 года назад +30

    when are you going to do a tour of your collection? that would be awesome!

    • @todderstaffes
      @todderstaffes 4 года назад +2

      I would love to see that as well

  • @darkoflight4938
    @darkoflight4938 3 года назад +6

    An absolutely wonderful video! History is so interesting, specially considering guns.

  • @waynefioravanti4687
    @waynefioravanti4687 4 года назад +5

    I enjoyed the history and pistol. Great presentation. Thank you sir.

  • @ogstopper
    @ogstopper 4 года назад +1

    Greetings from across the pond. Thank you for a GREAT You Tube channel!

  • @theloudamerican2193
    @theloudamerican2193 4 года назад +9

    the value is in the history that these pieces preserve.

  • @glennbrymer4065
    @glennbrymer4065 4 года назад +1

    I am a new fan here.
    I really like how you give the backgrounds and history of the pistols. You bring history alive with your knowledge and wisdom. I am fascinated with the immediate back history on the manufacture information.
    These are beautiful old firearms. Thank you for sharing your collection with us.

  • @sk8trryan1997
    @sk8trryan1997 4 года назад +1

    I like all the extra content in this video! Keep it up!

  • @ronreuwer5265
    @ronreuwer5265 4 года назад +2

    History is history really enjoy your videos please keep them coming.

  • @victortamini847
    @victortamini847 4 года назад +1

    Excellent video! Thanks Tom!

  • @tzsteve33
    @tzsteve33 4 года назад +1

    Love the format of these vids, great stuff

  • @lomax3216
    @lomax3216 4 года назад +1

    Very good video. Thank you for putting it together.

  • @stacybrown3714
    @stacybrown3714 4 года назад +10

    I feel that a great many of soldiers brought them back as "trophies" to remind themselves of the accomplishment that they achieved.

  • @kurttrzeciak8326
    @kurttrzeciak8326 4 года назад +1

    Another fascinating and educational video! Thank you for sharing.

  • @kingpin76110
    @kingpin76110 3 года назад +2

    I’m a fan not a hater. I really enjoy your vids and look forward to the new material so thanks very much for the education. I’ve had people tell me for many years that I would be considered an expert on firearms as I have been an avid collector for a very young age but I will tell you you have probably forgotten more gun lore than I know!!! Nice work on your shows. They are very well done and professional. But any way you probably already know this but Semo Hya the finish ( I think? ) too sniper of all time only used iron sights in his sniper work. Killing around 400.

  • @todderstaffes
    @todderstaffes 4 года назад +1

    Best video yet Tom, stay safe!!

  • @kobuserasmus2934
    @kobuserasmus2934 4 года назад +3

    History cannot be changed, war is terrible for all. Great video!

  • @ludo9234
    @ludo9234 4 года назад +1

    Only recently found you're channel I'm very impressed with the content and quality .From sunny England.

  • @seananthonyegan3395
    @seananthonyegan3395 4 года назад +26

    One thing you cannot change is History if people are offended do not watch these historical videos.

  • @jayalbertz9756
    @jayalbertz9756 4 года назад +3

    Great video! Important firearms have always been collected through out history. Speaking of Chris Kyle about 2 weeks ago a friend let me shoot his Chris Kyle 45, what a treat! I very much enjoy this channel and anything WW2 keep it going.

  • @jerryjohnsonii4181
    @jerryjohnsonii4181 4 года назад +5

    Very interesting video an thanks for the history lesson about Heinrich Himmler Engraved Sauer 38th pistol to a Sniper, Sir !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @karlaiken6152
    @karlaiken6152 4 года назад +2

    What an informative video, which is why I like your videos tremendously. Yes, the assembly story is sad and must not be praised, but the product is historic and therefore valuable. Keep on informing us, especially the younger collectors who may be ignorant of the history behind these firearms. Keep 'em coming please!

  • @kevinramsey6124
    @kevinramsey6124 4 года назад +1

    Great piece, and great history lesson. I love your videos. History will repeat if we don’t learn from it. Keep up the good job.

  • @jonathanl2748
    @jonathanl2748 4 года назад +8

    I love this channel as it’s so educational. On my bucket list is a P38 from Legacy. One will be mine!

    • @christineschmidt8494
      @christineschmidt8494 4 года назад

      Jonathan L Wife's tablet, when I first started to go to gun shows you could see quite a few P38's lying on tables. Now the only place you can find them are the web. Guess I'm just getting old.

    • @jonathanl2748
      @jonathanl2748 4 года назад

      Christine Schmidt Yes, I see the same at the few gun shows I attend. I trust Legacy to be my source way more than most gun shows. Thanks.

  • @ColeYounger16
    @ColeYounger16 2 года назад

    History and firearms together on one channel? Whaaa? Love it so well done thank you! Now we need to find out where, "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining" came from lol.

  • @stonefree1911
    @stonefree1911 4 года назад +1

    This was a fabulous video!

  • @mariomanti-gualtiero1228
    @mariomanti-gualtiero1228 4 года назад +7

    My great grandfather was a major in the Wehrmacht. His son, my grandfather, joined Vlasov’s Army. I love WW2 history.

  • @obxguy1
    @obxguy1 4 года назад +1

    Great video, Thank you!

  • @nicobas773
    @nicobas773 4 года назад +20

    Well f the haters I enjoyed this vid.Thx man !

  • @DA-pj3or
    @DA-pj3or 3 года назад +2

    One of my favorite pistols. Back in the late 80's I bought my first one as a carry gun of all things. I paid 80.00 for it lol. It was a eagle c police. I notice the finish is so much nicer than the standard issue in that serial number range.
    So they went a little further in the finishing of the presentation.

  • @austinjeffris38
    @austinjeffris38 2 года назад +1

    these are the kind of experts we need on pawn stars

  • @joeguzman3558
    @joeguzman3558 4 года назад +1

    We all must remember and understand ww2 history , great video.

  • @ohthankg-dforthebourgeoisi9800
    @ohthankg-dforthebourgeoisi9800 3 года назад +3

    This is so interesting. I would love to see the equivalent guns from different sides in a war presented side by side. And hear about the strength and pitfalls of each.

  • @JRCinKY
    @JRCinKY 3 года назад +1

    Fantastic video and greatly a special pistol.
    I think I have watched this 3 previous times, and I probably will aggain.

  • @k31chris
    @k31chris 4 года назад +2

    Bruno Sutkus book about his time as a german sniper and his life after the war is a very good read.
    As usual another great and interesting video. Thanks

  • @FubarSir
    @FubarSir 4 года назад +3

    Fantastic history, love learning and discovering everything WWII🍸

  • @trickeydick5024
    @trickeydick5024 4 года назад +2

    You don't have to explain anything to anyone period. Cheers

  • @nirvana19931
    @nirvana19931 4 года назад +2

    Blowing smoke supposedly came from a common medical practice used in the 1700’s where doctors would literally used a device to blow smoke up … there, as a way to revive someone. Although I would love it if that video was the true source of the phrase.

  • @lanetaylor7496
    @lanetaylor7496 4 года назад +1

    Great video sir!! I thought that climbing German decoy was amazing!!! Keep up the great content please!!

  • @robertrishel3685
    @robertrishel3685 2 года назад

    Fantastic video!!

  • @jerryjohnsonii4181
    @jerryjohnsonii4181 4 года назад +1

    Also thanks for showing the G34 sniper Rifle too. Very Cool !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @ALOLBERG
    @ALOLBERG 4 года назад +2

    Really good presentation!

  • @americanpatriotism1776
    @americanpatriotism1776 3 года назад +1

    Interesting piece....thanks for sharing!!!!

  • @nickdemase1803
    @nickdemase1803 4 года назад +2

    I have just recently found your channel and I am truely enjoying your content and thank you for sharing your knowladge. It would be really cool if you could do a video on the hitler drillings you have listed on your site.

  • @nucleargaz1
    @nucleargaz1 Год назад

    Another entertaining video by a likeable guy, keep 'em coming sir

  • @mabbrey
    @mabbrey 4 года назад +1

    great stuff cheers tom

  • @roberthill3207
    @roberthill3207 4 года назад +1

    Excellent video.

  • @brunoterlingen2203
    @brunoterlingen2203 4 года назад +2

    Indeed, we should all learn from history so that it does not repeat itself: thank you Tom.

    • @gregoryhauserman5927
      @gregoryhauserman5927 2 года назад

      Ghislane Maxwell and the case of “help us poor innocent folk from criminal prosecution.” Now available in the United States, ft. Joel Rosenberg an Ol Sparky!
      Epstein productions [newborn+]

  • @garrettdelre9518
    @garrettdelre9518 4 года назад +1

    Loved the video

  • @romeosgenericchannel3971
    @romeosgenericchannel3971 4 года назад +4

    Very interesting, an amazing piece of history, and yes its a terrible thing as to why this pistol was presented but as you say, it happened its part of history and thats just the way it is , very interesting! Thanks for sharing with us!

  • @johnbettano6026
    @johnbettano6026 4 года назад +1

    Good presentation. For the sharpshooter.

  • @FestusHaggen
    @FestusHaggen 3 года назад

    Very interesting. Thanks!

  • @apb2887
    @apb2887 4 года назад +1

    Wow, what a beautiful piece

  • @groundzero94
    @groundzero94 4 года назад +1

    Great video keep them coming! I have a waffen ss scharfsch dog tag wish i had that pistol to go with it!

  • @Blktailhunter53
    @Blktailhunter53 4 года назад +1

    Great video

  • @ervingoertzen7233
    @ervingoertzen7233 4 года назад

    Awesome video

  • @MrPh30
    @MrPh30 4 года назад +1

    Zaitsev rifle is using a 4x scope, the movie depicted and most used is later model 3.5x
    Btw ,in the 30s during their friendship and alliance pact,,Carl Zeiss set up a optical factory in Soviet Union,that was the one making those scopes and many other optics.
    The Allenberger scope is Zeiss Ziel Sechs, 6x scope. One of the best and brightest ones of the whole war.
    6x42 is popular sniper scope and hunting scope for decades since,and the versatile use is hard to beat,also the optic and dawn,dusk quality also.

  • @williamcattr267
    @williamcattr267 Год назад

    It is always a treat to have Dennis Murphy form NBC Dateline present historical handguns.

  • @Sheltowee1775
    @Sheltowee1775 3 года назад +1

    You handle the difficult stuff very well and in a sensitive way.

  • @rickdeclue3202
    @rickdeclue3202 4 года назад +1

    good video nicely done thanks

  • @joeguzman3558
    @joeguzman3558 4 года назад +1

    Legacy collectibles always have the best quality guns rifles and memorabilia from ww2

  • @kowalski363
    @kowalski363 4 года назад +1

    Thank you

  • @cycadaacolyte6349
    @cycadaacolyte6349 4 года назад +12

    "Blowing Smoke" comes from old medical practices involving literally injecting smoke rectally of tobacco, opium etc.
    Just like with other medications (google baby or french aspirin) its easily absorbed quickly into the system vs ingestion.
    The practice fell out of favor as quackery and thus the turn of phrase was born...

    • @robertdeen8741
      @robertdeen8741 4 года назад +2

      Those meds you gave me were no good. For all they did, I might as well if shoved them up my.......

    • @russellbranham4868
      @russellbranham4868 4 года назад +1

      BOOF

    • @mayshack
      @mayshack 4 года назад

      @@robertdeen8741 You can say ass. Also, good movie.

    • @robertthomas5906
      @robertthomas5906 4 года назад

      So he's blowing smoke up our ass? LOL.

  • @jasoncurry8439
    @jasoncurry8439 4 года назад +1

    Thanks for the video. This was very informative. I feel the same way as you do. Yes these guns may have been used against the allies but they are very important pieces of history. Thanks again for sharing

  • @JRCinKY
    @JRCinKY 4 года назад +8

    Beautiful pistol. I would Love to have it, but I can not afford it.

  • @michaelaxel7107
    @michaelaxel7107 3 года назад

    I appreciate your sensitivity. We must hang on to all history.

  • @macey7005
    @macey7005 4 года назад +1

    Really good video

  • @jensenwilliam5434
    @jensenwilliam5434 4 года назад +1

    Thank s again!!!!

  • @almontepaolilli7531
    @almontepaolilli7531 4 года назад +2

    WWII was a vicious war of conflicting ideologies. It was particularly brutal on the Eastern Front. Anyone who has been in a war understands that snipers are effective at holding up a vastly superior force. Well presented explanation of the facts. Be safe but enjoy yourself.

  • @TheYjmfan
    @TheYjmfan 4 года назад +1

    That was absolutely fascinating thanks for that I have a fair amount of German Militaria just general stuff but nothing as rare as that pistol.just subscribed to your channel.

    • @suhailahmad4632
      @suhailahmad4632 3 года назад

      I love to watch your tremendous collection specially engraved pistols here is my request to make a video on engraved revolvers. Respect from Dubai

  • @bennettguns3809
    @bennettguns3809 4 года назад +1

    Did you ever mention the name of the German sniper training film, is it available on Utube?

    • @LegacyCollectibles
      @LegacyCollectibles  4 года назад

      Here is a link to the original video. Thanks for watching! ruclips.net/video/yNHeGrojUjg/видео.html

  • @Willy_Tepes
    @Willy_Tepes 4 года назад +1

    The holster is probably made from a cellulose based polymer. The case is made from old drawers for print type.

  • @Junior-fd8ux
    @Junior-fd8ux 4 года назад +1

    I know where one of these gun only. Just a regular 32acp version i believe? It's in some what decent shape and works. Is it worth anything, i dont know much about these..thanks for sharing aswell

  • @mrd7067
    @mrd7067 3 года назад +1

    I recommend the books by german, eastern front snipers:
    Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's Cross
    Sniper ace : from the eastern front to Siberia : the autobiography of a Wehrmacht sniper
    Eastern front sniper: the life of Matthäus Hetzenauer

    • @mrd7067
      @mrd7067 3 года назад

      As a sidenote the so called slave labour wasn`t, in a lot of cases different to the draft. Even the US used them (even some with german ancestors they kidnapped from latin america). The SS wvwn paid pension insurance periods for concentration camp inmates and paid them for work.
      There were even recreational stuff. If i`m informed right in Auschwitz for example there were a swimming pool, grand piano, movie theater, post office, camp money, brothel, basic goods store, church/synagogue, putting on plays, creating an orchestra, football (soccer) teams, etc.
      I find it very interesting that the US stole awards together with all the other things they stole in defiance of international law.
      The history on germany since 1900 has to be cleared up.

  • @alexhayden2303
    @alexhayden2303 3 года назад +1

    The 'Criterion', DVD has a Bonus Extra: An interview with Zeitzefff (?) who recalls how they killed the German top sniper.
    It wasn't quite how the movie portrayed it. It cost him 2 of his men to do it.
    The 'Dancing Children', fountain has now been completely renewed.

  • @davidaitchison8875
    @davidaitchison8875 4 года назад +2

    Leg. Col. While I'm sure the Germans took note of the infantry weapons being issued to US forces, this was not the impetus for the development of semi-auto rifles and assault weaponry in the German Army. That impetus came from the war with the Soviet Union along the Eastern Front. It was in the East that the Germans lost the greatest proportion of their soldiers (about 80%) and where the introduction of rapid fire weapons was deemed most critical.

    • @juerbert1
      @juerbert1 4 года назад

      That's right, Russia was a meat grinder !!

  • @RD-cw9ik
    @RD-cw9ik 4 года назад +1

    Great video and now i know how much a G 43 goes for Thankyou.

  • @PaulThorpeOfficial
    @PaulThorpeOfficial 4 года назад +4

    If you don't learn from history it tends to repeat itself. Just as I was typing, you said exactly the same thing!

  • @wotan5136
    @wotan5136 Год назад

    Relics from the good guys, nice.

  • @46danz
    @46danz 2 года назад

    Would love this pistol,pure conversation piece.

  • @tomsherwood4650
    @tomsherwood4650 4 года назад +3

    As for collecting these items, they were not made for us, it is a matter of "to the winner, goes the spoils". No one demeans the guys that took these from their adversaries.

  • @johnwoodcock3208
    @johnwoodcock3208 4 года назад +2

    Incredible weapon, may have been awarded to Wiking sniper

  • @recoil7.625
    @recoil7.625 4 года назад +2

    Great video, one note on russian scopes of ww2 there was the pe, pem and pu, the first 2 same physical size pen had a focus ring the pu was the most manufactured and used from around 1940 on or there about although all 3 only have 3.5x magnification no problem getting rounds on target out to 600, pretty sure the germans didn't didn't go over 6xmag,

  • @loganyoung2408
    @loganyoung2408 4 года назад +1

    Video on how to securely display our collection?

  • @luckyjoey1313
    @luckyjoey1313 4 года назад +1

    Blowing smoke 💨