{"id":90269,"date":"2024-10-28T02:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=90269"},"modified":"2024-07-07T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T21:26:45","slug":"history-of-the-krummlauf-device-hitlers-folly-one-of-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/10\/28\/history-of-the-krummlauf-device-hitlers-folly-one-of-many\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the <em>Krummlauf<\/em> Device: Hitler&#8217;s Folly (One of Many)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ee2C_1IS8SU?si=vAkYmLya8jQ_A7LE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Jul 7, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Today we are taking a look at the backstory of the famously recognizable <em>Krummlauf<\/em> device, the curved barrel attachment for the StG-44. It is really a perfect example of how German late-war desperation weapons took shape. It went from an idea nobody actually wanted to an impossible development program in the chaos of the German defeat.<\/p>\n<p>You can see my previous video on an example of the <em>Krummlauf<\/em> (from 2014) here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HSsFiS2Voxg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/HSsFiS2Voxg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And definitely check out <em>Garand Thumb<\/em>&#8216;s video shooting an original one here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cO2GuMGpBA4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cO2Gu&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>\nweaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbjQ1RHljOVRRc3M4Sk9paWhPUXhEYjNERllod3xBQ3Jtc0tuQl9reU5jajZ1WTNyalBjaElEd2IwN3pBVUFtM0lpcS1BbG9Ja2JnZWQwSXRKWldZS3g5aGpOM0NhRk9xT0FxeGQzaWw5QzJKa09GYzVRUk5ySElwSW84NXBPWW5GQ1pMZlFVTVBxV25jNVM0VlhMOA&#038;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.floatplane.com%2Fchannel%2FForgottenWeapons&#038;v=ee2C_1IS8SU\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/For&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten Weapons Published Jul 7, 2024 Today we are taking a look at the backstory of the famously recognizable Krummlauf device, the curved barrel attachment for the StG-44. It is really a perfect example of how German late-war desperation weapons took shape. It went from an idea nobody actually wanted to an impossible development program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1118,7,5,663,230],"tags":[140,1366,49,969,174],"class_list":["post-90269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-design","tag-forgottenweapons","tag-guns","tag-hitler","tag-innovation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ntX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90270,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90269\/revisions\/90270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}