Designed for rapid, low-precision mass production, the PPSh-41 armed entire Soviet infantry companies with automatic firepower, especially prized in the close-range ruins of Stalingrad and Berlin where its 71-round drum magazine outgunned a bolt-action rifle at every corner. Over six million were built, and captured examples were prized enough that the Germans issued them under their own designation.
Soviet army ppsh 41Lposka · CC BY-SA 3.0 · sourceFor documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Russland, Kampf um Stalingrad, Soldat mit MPi Der Kampf in UnknownUnknown · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · sourceFor documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Russland, deutscher Kriegsgefangener ADN-Zentralbild/ArchivUnknownUnknown · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · source
