Sturmgewher 44

The STG 44 was designed to be a new type of rifle better suited for close quarters, urban fighting. It needed to be more powerful than a submachine gun, but not have the high recoil of the rifle.

Secret Development
When the need for a weapon became aparent, the designers knew they could not let Hitler know of it's development. He had forbid he creation of a new rifle, and he would have thought that the new MP43 was ugly. Development was carrried out in secret, as was the new intermidiate round, 8mm kurz. It was fielded in small numbers on the eastern front, and wheh Hitler asked what his troops needed during an inspection, an it was responded that the needed more MP44s. Hitler was astounded to hear of this rifle, and soon ordered that it's designers come foward and demonstrate it.

STG 44
Hitler was impressed with the weapon, and renamded it the STG, or Sturmgewher. He said that with this "Storm Rifle" his armies would retake all lost ground and win the war for Germany. He used it as a propaganda tool. The weapon was devestating on the Easter Front, and was used to great effect, all the way to the Battle of Berlin.

Post War Use
The weapon had a huge influence on the famous AK-47, and was used by the East German Army and police before being replaced with the AK 47. It was used by the Czech Army, and by the Yugoslavian paratroops. Argentina used the weapon for a time, and they have been captured in the middle east.