german marked SMLE (real or fake?)

[villiers]

The Sten and the German Mauser copy (Gerät Neumünster) were issued to the Volkssturm (home guard) which was not a Wehrmacht unit. Their equipment towards the end of WWII was nondescript and these weapons were not likely to have been stamped in accordance with Wehrmacht regulations.

Gerät Neumünster:-

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[Claven2]

The Sten and the German Mauser copy (Gerät Neumünster) were issued to the Volkssturm (home guard) which was not a Wehrmacht unit. Their equipment towards the end of WWII was nondescript and these weapons were not likely to have been stamped in accordance with Wehrmacht regulations.

Gerät Neumünster:-

but we are expected to believe (by the same dealer who sold this rifle) than a 1945 M44 was captured and marked with no fewer then 9 German eagles.