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volkssturm
The Volkssturm (German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlksʃtʊʁm]; "people's storm") was a levée en masse national militia established by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II. It was not set up by the German Army, the ground component of the combined German Wehrmacht armed forces, but by the Nazi Party on the orders of Adolf Hitler and established on 25 September 1944. It was staffed by conscripting males between the ages of 16 and 60 years, who were not already serving in some military unit. The Volkssturm comprised one of the final components of the total war promulgated by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, part of a Nazi endeavor to overcome their enemies' military strength through force of will. Volkssturm units fought unsuccessful futile battles against the Allied forces at the end of the war and on several occasions, its members participated in atrocities accompanied by German civilians and the Hitler Youth, which were overseen by members of the SS or Gau leaders.
Based a couple recent conversations with a family member and an acquaintance: would you own and/or shoot a firearm that had been rechambered from its original, factory chambering? Why or why not? If you should have such a piece in your collection at the present, what would it be?
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Figured others would find this interesting. (I did a study of this topic over the years and found the Axis Powers, the Germans in particular, used a lot of captured small arms. A tangential study on the Volkssturm featured similar; a dizzying array of arms from all over the world.)