re: #97 Targetpractice

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.

The M1 Garand, while not a perfect weapon by any means, was a revolution on the battlefield in the face of the bolt action Lee-Enfield and Mosin-Nagant rifles on the continent. It gave an American rifle squad the firepower of a European platoon. And that was just a semi-automatic rifle with a relatively small clip. You’d think the demonstration of such superior firepower would be a compelling argument for adopting semi-auto or select-fire weapons of your own, but Hitler was nothing if not stubborn.