Why German Forces Hated the Sten Gun Used by the Canadian Army
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Why German Forces Hated the Sten Gun Used by the Canadian Army
Why did German forces come to hate one of the cheapest, crudest weapons of WWII—the Sten gun used by the Canadian Army? This documentary explores how a flimsy-looking submachine gun, mocked even by the soldiers who carried it, became a psychological weapon that terrified German troops from Italy to Normandy and into Germany itself. From Ortona’s brutal house-to-house fighting to night raids in the Norman hedgerows and the forests of the Rhineland, Canadian infantry turned the Sten’s flaws into deadly advantages. German reports described its distinctive clattering sound as a warning of sudden death in the dark, its mass production as impossible to counter, and its use in close combat as shockingly effective. This video examines the German perspective, why the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS feared Canadian Sten gun tactics, how the weapon reshaped night fighting, and why Germany ultimately copied the very gun it once dismissed as junk.
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