Why German Soldiers BEGGED Command To Ban America's 'Trench Broom'

Описание: June 21, 1940. A retired general dies in a quiet Long Island town. No front-page obituary. No eulogy. His company is $2.2 million in debt. His invention — rejected by every army on Earth — is known only as Al Capone's favorite toy. Fifteen months later, Pearl Harbor. And that same invention becomes one of the weapons that destroyed the Third Reich. 1.7 million of them.

In 1921, the Thompson submachine gun cost $200 — one-seventh of the average American worker's annual salary. By 1944, the price had dropped to $45. An 87% real cost reduction. Meanwhile, Germany created a weapon that was objectively superior — and produced it in quantities that couldn't fill a parking lot.

This is not a story about a gun. This is a forensic audit of how the assembly line crushed the workshop — and why "good enough" in massive quantities beats "perfect but scarce" every single time.

📊 Inside this documentary:
— The Valentine's Day Massacre: 70 rounds, 7 men, and the dying gangster who said "Nobody shot me"
— The mechanism at the heart of the Thompson that turned out to be based on junk science — and somehow still worked
— Why Hitler personally delayed the weapon that could have changed the war
— The German machine gunner who claims he fired 12,000 rounds on D-Day — and why historians don't believe his numbers
— A sergeant, a welding torch, and a pile of scrap metal that collapsed an entire German defensive system overnight
— 1.7 million Thompsons vs. 910,000 MP 40s — the math that buried the Wehrmacht

📚 Sources: U.S. Army Ordnance Department records, National Firearms Act (1934), "U.S. Infantry Weapons in Combat," Cornelius Ryan — "The Longest Day," Army Ordnance Committee transcripts (December 1943), Ford Willow Run production records, 291st Engineer Combat Battalion operational history.

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