Dispatch 2020-12-30

Dispatch2020-12-30

Beutewaffen! (Captured Arms)

Nazi Germany (1933-1945) made extensive use of captured arms (Beutewaffen). Much like the view marks/inspection marks found on British manufactured Lee-Enfield rifles, Nazi Germany made extensive use of inspection/acceptance marks called “Waffenamt” on almost everything used by all branches of German forces – including some captured weapons.

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Enfield-Stuff Dispatches Beutewaffen Captured Arms

Notes from Underground

Sisyphus, everyone agrees, angered the gods one time too many, and for his punishment was sent to the Underworld, doomed to a task that he could never complete – a website about Lee-Enfield rifles. As the Lee-Enfield rifle would not be invented for another 5,000 years, the gods had to make do a giant boulder, named υπό κατασκευή (pronounced “ypó kataskeví”, Greek for ‘Under Construction’), condemning Sisyphus to push the boulder up a long, hard hill, only to have the boulder escape, again and again, to roll back down the hill, until the Lee-Enfield rifle was invented, Hades got wifi, and the website got started. Only then would the truly impossible task begin.

Some say that the gods, in an act of mercy (or perhaps cruelty), would sometimes allow Sisyphus back into The World, to stand briefly in the sunshine, blinking, befuddled, irascible, before returning to his forever unfinished task. If that story were true, do you suppose he might have left a note..?

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