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The following is a list of World War II German Firearms which includes German firearms, prototype firearms and captured foreign firearms used by the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS, Deutsches Heer, the Volkssturm and other military armed forces in World War II.
This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II. Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a ...
During World War II, German infantrymen were equipped with a variety of weapons, each designed to fulfill specific roles on the battlefield. This page provides a detailed look at the rifles and other weapons used by German forces.
Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order (1-to-Z). Flag images indicative of country of origin and not necessarily primary operator. Arms such as hand grenades and portable artillery systems are also featured in this listing. Guns and related infantry small arms of Nazi Germany in World War 2.
Among the most-used artillery pieces by the Germans during D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, the 8.8 cm Flak anti-aircraft gun was arguably one of the most effective weapons of the Second World War.
The StG 44 (abbreviation of Sturmgewehr 44, "assault rifle 44") is a German assault rifle developed during World War II by Hugo Schmeisser. It is also known by its early designations as the MP 43 and MP 44 ( Maschinenpistole 43 and 44 ).
The German military, known as the Wehrmacht (armed forces of Nazi Germany, 1935 to 1945), employed an array of iconic firearms, including the Karabiner 98k rifle, MP40 submachine...
The German MG34 was an efficient and manoeuvrable gun that could be mounted on a bipod or tripod depending upon the situation. It was capable of automatic (up to 900 rpm) and single-round shooting and can be seen as the world’s first general purpose machine gun.
The most iconic German small arm of World War II, the MP-38 and the updated MP-40 surprisingly earned the nickname “Schmeisser” — the truth is that Hugo Schmeisser did not design the gun, but merely managed the plant were the small arm was developed.
The German Maschinengewehr 42, or MG42, was one of the best machine-guns of the war, both in combat and in ease of production. It set the standard for machine-guns in the years that followed, and as such was the most important machine-gun of the war.