British weapons used by German army. DAK
 

2 of my original photos of a German with a Bren and a AT gun. :no4: Did the german Army make any use of the 303 rifle ie. use in the german dads army?
The germans did make a copy of a sten.

It is a well documented fact that the German military reissued captured small arms, artillery, tanks and vehicles to its troops. They had nomenclature for each item that usually had the first letter of the country of origin in the name. A 'T' for Czech, an R for Russian, and likely an E or I for English.

Generally, second line and minor fronts had the oddball weapons. The one that comes to mind were the troops in the Balkans had Austrian Steyr rifles and Czech light machine guns.

Really, did they? I am surprised as I am sure it was in the same category as the T34 tank. When the German military asked industry if they could copy the T34 the answer was "no: it will not pass our quality control systems".

H.

Not Germans, but they were friends...

Still not sure if these are late pattern ZB guns or British Mark I (M) pattern based on the non-adjustable length bipods and the simplified butt stock and flat butt plate while retaining the early pattern barrel and dial site.

If British guns, it would follow along with what I've read where non-German support units would get the captured weapons and older pattern German weapons.

bren
 

German with a ZB Bren ?

The German copy of the sten was the MP3008. It was an emergency measure towards the end of the war. There is a modern reproduction available today as the BD3008. It was not a direct copy, as it had a downward facing, non rotating magwell.

There were also some 28,000 stens made in Germany in 1944. These were exact right down to the markings, and were meant to be used for clandestine ops.

Thanks, never heard about it before. Interesting to see the Germans copying this non-typical design, I read it's intended use was as a Volksmaschinenpistole ("people's submachine gun").

H.

See! The Germans could not resists re-engineering it and making it better. And it turns out the Sten was a copy of a German design to begin with, of course. . .

From hza-kulmbach.de:

Boys ATR
 

Here's another picture of the Boys Anti-tank rifle in German hands. I found this photo while surfing ebay for Boys paraphenalia. Don't know much about where and when the photo was taken unfortunately.

Cheers, Derek.