He must have been an economics teacher before the war.
Vintage Saturday: Guns and Butter
Bolt Action Rifles
Kaiserliche Schutztruppen G98 – for the German Camel Corps
Germany established their colony of German South West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika, now Namibia) in 1884, as part of its late attempt to become a colonial power to rival the United Kingdom. The soldiers deployed to protect […]
Submachine Guns
MP-28: Hugo Schmeisser Improves the MP18
The MP28,II was Hugo Schmeisser’s improved take on the original World War One MP18,I design. It used a simple box magazine in place of the Luger drum magazines, and this magazine would form the basis […]
Prototype
Benke-Thiemann Folding Luger Holster
While most major pistols made before the 1930s had some type of shoulder stock available as an option, the Luger had much more variety of stocks than most others. In addition to the several types […]
A young friend of mine was in a history class in college and the old “Guns and Butter” discussion came up. He avered that it was better to have guns, because “If I have guns, and you have butter, then I have butter too”…(grin)
hai boys. the coking handle of the
MG42 has the very first design of
the 1942
Go ahead and smile today Nazi, but tomorrow, you’ll be toast.
Wow, that’s a bad pun even for me.
Ian, you owe me a new monitor/keyboard. “He must have been an economics teacher before the war.” I laughed quite hard at this but unfortunately I happened to be drinking my coffee at the time.
“If I have guns, and you have butter, then I have butter too”…
I have never seen a historical example of a nation with less economic strength (Butter)losing to a nation that is less economically advantaged.
GDP wins every time.
Dean from Idaho
If that is real butter he’s having with his sauerbroten, I can understand why he is smiling. The privations suffered by the ordinary soldier in a war that created acute shortages of supplies, and which typically reduced personal value systems to stark, bare basics, made the smallest, simplest everyday things a peacetime civilian would take wholly for granted something to be truly grateful for, if even for a fleeting moment. Although it’s from a different era than what you see in the photo, Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet On The Western Front” still brings this theme to mind, among others.
Nice call on the early-model MG-42, Dimitris :).