I have just finished reading a new book, "A mirror caught the sun", which is about operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhardt Heydrich. The author who seems to have carried out an awful lot of research, has described the incident of the Sten gun failing. I have previously read that the reason that the Sten failed, was as a because of the stock being removed, to reduce the size, the result of this would be predictable, the bolt shot out the a**s end of the gun.But, this is not apparently so, according to the new book, the stock was cut off flush and the gun dismantled and placed in a bag, to conceal it.Now for the crunch, the Germans, allowed the Czechicon's to keep rabbits for food and also allowed them to collect grass to feed them,(jolly decent).So somebody carrying around a bag full of grass, would not have raised suspicion, but it seems that grass had got into the dismantled Sten,this was the cause of the jam, as witnesses said that it did fire a few rounds off.
My question, do you think that grass would have caused the gun to jam? I'm not sure,Pete.
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