GREAT footage! Sure would be a treat to see similar of the MKb42 and or MP44 series rifles being produced.
Pete
Would hope to one day see that, hopefully there's something floating around.
A couple thoughts and some questions. First I love the narrators voice. Not sure why but I do and he does a lot of these. Next, this seems designed to pump up the German populace but I think more so to intimidate their foes and maybe poke a stick in the eye of the Versailles signatories. As the film builds it's cut/lighted so you see vast quantities being near final assembled at the same time. 100's maybe in the receiver shot.
Thoughts on a time frame? I'm thinking maybe late '37 at the earliest and probably 40? at the latest? Which factory? BSW? Certainly not sure but they were up and running early in the game.
Did you see how fast they were running and the feed rates?
Did you see how fast they were running and the feed rates? Don't think they had carbide tooling back then. Perhaps the film was running faster than as shot.
Could not tell if they were boring the barrels or cutting rifling but they sure were pushing through faster than I would have thought possible.
And the line of guys straightening the finished barrels Wow!.
Pete
I've only ever seen 1 photo of a shop area where they were working with the Sturmgewehrs. Read somewhere that what may have been was lost in bombing raids. Could be guess.
Claus Espeholt might know.
Pete
- a startling one fingered salute to the treaty - !!!!
Thoughts on a time frame? I'm thinking maybe late '37 at the earliest and probably 40? at the latest?
Yes sir. I'd love to know exactly what the narrator says but my German isn't quite good enough to translate without listening to it a hundred times.
Maybe I'll give it a try?
This part was in a broadcast on January 14, 1942. Maybe it was filmed around 1940 / 1941.