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We now have a new local gun store here in town that had this great opening day ad....
come in and rent and shoot automatic guns....such as the 45 caliber Thompson,
M-16, the WWII German STEN???????. Heck, I might go and see what a real German Sten
looks like. MIght have to get one to complete my STEN set with my British Sten.
The germans made a version of the Sten with their own name and everything...I can't recall off the top of my head what they called it though.
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Wikipedia tells us it was the MP 3008. About 28k of them produced.
Gerät Potsdam
In late 1944, the Mauser works in Germany secretly started manufacturing copies of British Mk II Sten, apparently for diversion and sabotage purposes. These weapons were intended to duplicate the British original as closely as possible, right down to the markings. The series was referred to as the Gerät Potsdam and approximately
28,000 weapons were made.
MP 3008
In early 1945, Germany was seeking a cheap version of the MP40 machine pistol for the Volkssturm. For that purpose a modified Sten was designed by Mauser and named the MP 3008. The main difference was the magazine attached below the weapon. Altogether, roughly
10,000 pieces were produced before the end of World War II.