Why Germans LOVED Soviet PPSh-41

The German soldiers fighting in Stalingrad came to one conclusion fast. The Soviet PPSh-41 was a better close range weapon than anything they had been issued, and so they started picking captured ones up off the battlefield and using them on their old users. The Wehrmacht eventually gave the weapon an official German designation, the MP41(r), with the r standing for Russisch. This is the full story of the cheap stamped steel submachine gun that came out of the humiliation of the Winter War, was built by women and teenagers in unheated workshops east of the Ural mountains, defined the urban combat doctrine of the entire Red Army from August 1942 onwards, and put the Soviets on the path that produced the AK-47 less than a decade later. Chapters: 0:00 The Soviet disaster during barbarossa 3:12 Stalingrad 5:51 And then the pps-43 joined 8:00 the desperate street fighting of Berlin 9:50 How it became the AK-47