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Description
In terms of submachine guns, there were also designs avaliable.
One of them being this - Maschinenpistole 3008 - Biggest compliment towards UK that Germany had ever made.
It's also known as Volksmaschinenpistole (People's Submachine Gun)

Story of MP 3008 begins in 1944 when Mauser made an exact copy of british Sten Mk2 - Gerät Potsdam (Potsdam Device). It was an exact copy, down to manufacturing stamps.
In early 1945, advancing Soviet Red Army captured the Erma Plant in Erfurt. Why was that important? Because Erma manufactured MP40, which although offically replaced by Sturmgewehr 44, was still very important for Nazi Germany.
A cheap replacement for MP40 that could be produced fast was needed to arm whatever was left of German military.
Mauser decided to continue the work from Gerät Potsdam, but simplify it further. Yes you read that correctly, simlified Sten. Desperacy at its finest.

Just like Sten, it was simple blowback, open-bolt submachine gun chambered in 9x19mm Parabellum. Unlike Sten tho, MP 3008 had magazines on the bottom rather than on the side.
It had rate of fire of about 450 rounds/minute, which was slower than Sten.
MP 3008 usually had steel wire buttstock welded to the frame, but as conditioned worsened inside Germany, final guns had wooden stocks or some other variation.
Claim of 28 000 produced was made, but postwar interrogations of highly ranked Mauser personnel didn't bring any proof of more than 10 000 being made.

Some guns got into hands of Czechoslovak Army, as well as Police units of several previously occupied countries, after the war had ended.

Name: MP 3008
Type: Submachine Gun
Bullet: 9x19mm Parabellum
Country of Origin: IIIrd Reich
Year: 1945

Description
In terms of submachine guns, there were also designs avaliable.
One of them being this - Maschinenpistole 3008 - Biggest compliment towards UK that Germany had ever made.
It's also known as Volksmaschinenpistole (People's Submachine Gun)

Story of MP 3008 begins in 1944 when Mauser made an exact copy of british Sten Mk2 - Gerät Potsdam (Potsdam Device). It was an exact copy, down to manufacturing stamps.
In early 1945, advancing Soviet Red Army captured the Erma Plant in Erfurt. Why was that important? Because Erma manufactured MP40, which although offically replaced by Sturmgewehr 44, was still very important for Nazi Germany.
A cheap replacement for MP40 that could be produced fast was needed to arm whatever was left of German military.
Mauser decided to continue the work from Gerät Potsdam, but simplify it further. Yes you read that correctly, simlified Sten. Desperacy at its finest.

Just like Sten, it was simple blowback, open-bolt submachine gun chambered in 9x19mm Parabellum. Unlike Sten tho, MP 3008 had magazines on the bottom rather than on the side.
It had rate of fire of about 450 rounds/minute, which was slower than Sten.
MP 3008 usually had steel wire buttstock welded to the frame, but as conditioned worsened inside Germany, final guns had wooden stocks or some other variation.
Claim of 28 000 produced was made, but postwar interrogations of highly ranked Mauser personnel didn't bring any proof of more than 10 000 being made.

Some guns got into hands of Czechoslovak Army, as well as Police units of several previously occupied countries, after the war had ended.

Name: MP 3008
Type: Submachine Gun
Bullet: 9x19mm Parabellum
Country of Origin: IIIrd Reich
Year: 1945