Have to disagree with Big Norm, Doubs, and Wes. First Doubs, what about the millions of SVT-38s and SVT-40s that were issued by the "major power" USSR during the war?
Concerning Nazi (read Hitler) anti-modernist romanticism and its interference with industrial mondernization, I refer to the extensive writings of the architech of war-time armaments industrialization, Albert Speer and his view of Hitler's antimodernization:
"...antimodernity prevented Hitler from approaching victory: thatched roofs, old-fashioned ideas about artisan manufacture, division of the land into individual farms - all these things were contrary to the rational exploitation of German production not only in practice but far more in their ideolgical background. When I began my work as armaments minister in 1942, I kept coming up against such hinderences more and more... romantic ideology [prevented women from working]in the armaments industry during the war...Hitler opposed the tommy gun because he said it made soldiers cowardly and made close combat impossible...[he] rejected the jet fighter because he said its extreme speed was an obstacle to fighting..distruted attempts at developing an atom bomb by means of nuclear fission ...[Hitler called such efforts in private conversation] a spawn of Jewish pseudoscience. ["Infilration", Albert Speer,1985 Macmillan, pg 83]
Yes, I would say the Nazi's romanticism and antimodernism was a hinderence and the continued manufacture of the Luger in 41 &42 proof of that. mm
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