@Gargantua:
Are you on DRUGS?
Uhm, I won’t answer any questions without my lawyer present. :wink:
I regard most television documentaries as highly entertaining, but at least sometimes containing information of dubious reliability. They are there to entertain and inform, and sometimes propagandize, not simply inform.
It is in stacks of dry dusty books that one finds interesting facts, and hot lonely librarians. :evil: The internet also does decently as a search tool, although you often have to have a good idea of what you are looking for. (For example, you won’t typically find mention of “The Protocols of Zion” in any discussion of the Holocaust, which is, well, really bad.)
My understanding of the history of the StG 44 is that production of the gun itself was generally approved of by Hitler.
The MKb 42, FG 42, and MP43 were the predecessors. I think the referred to “stoppage of the StG 44 by Hitler” (to paraphrase an earlier post) referred to the real infighting in Germany over the design and production of these various predecessor guns. To sum up, there were various plans for various assault rifles / machine guns, but there was a lot of bureaucratic infighting. Rather than allowing them to continue arguing to no positive end, Hitler at various points told them to shut up and shut down.
So naturally there was some delay in StG 44 production, but saying Hitler made a stupid decision, or that he completely lacked vision, is like yelling at your cat after you burn your toast. It’s not the cat’s fault, even if it was in the room at the time.
