{"id":25068,"date":"2024-07-07T11:17:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T16:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/07\/history-of-the-krummlauf-device-hitlers-folly-one-of-many\/"},"modified":"2024-07-07T11:17:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T16:17:24","slug":"history-of-the-krummlauf-device-hitlers-folly-one-of-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/07\/history-of-the-krummlauf-device-hitlers-folly-one-of-many\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Krummlauf Device: Hitler&#8217;s Folly (One of Many)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ee2C_1IS8SU?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>You can see my previous video on an example of the Krummlauf (from 2014) here: <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HSsFiS2Voxg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/HSsFiS2Voxg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And definitely check out Garand Thumb&#8217;s video shooting an original one here:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cO2GuMGpBA4<br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cO2GuMGpBA4<br<\/a> \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:weaponsandwar.tv 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&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/07\/history-of-the-krummlauf-device-hitlers-folly-one-of-many\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History of the Krummlauf Device: Hitler&#8217;s Folly (One of Many)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}