High German soldier with captured SVT-40 Soviet rifle. It is good known that the SVT-40 was a prized country of war trophy alongside the High German troops, peculiarly when on the Russian front. The SVT was as well as thence pop that the High German ordnance as well as logistic cs manufactured slings as well as leather goods to back upwards the rifle inwards the field! They liked them because they were low-cal as well as - inwards good trained hands - effective. Plus, the invader grabbed only close anything they could larn their hands on (with the glaring exception of French small-scale arms). The Germans were using captured equipment a lot, for they couldn't attain plenty to arm all their armed services as well as paramilitary units, too every bit equipping approximately of their allies. They used anything, from tanks or artillery to guns to rifles as well as submachine guns.
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