re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They had the best-looking technology, not necessarily the most practical or robust.

So much of the problem with Germany’s military was that weapons procurement was subject to three issues: Hitler had final approval, Hitler had no real idea what the Wehrmacht needed, and decisions were as much about political patronage as they were the suitability of a design for the role intended.

For example, Hitler was the primary reason why the Wehrmacht did not adopt an assault rifle until late in the war, as he saw no advantage to equipping soldiers with a select-fire rifle with an intermediate round when the Heer already had plenty of SMGs and MGs.