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 in the chaos of the German defeat.
Fell down laughing when he got to the part where Hitler was told about just the idea and he ordered 20K to ship immediately.
Sounds like something out of present-day corporate management.