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A WW2 German Mystery: Knorr Bremse FG42 Prototype? (Ad-free) (Patreon)

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2026-08-24 12:00:05
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2026-08

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This is really a mystery rifle, or half of a mystery rifle. It is part of the collection at Springfield Armory National Historic Site, but its exact provenance from World War Two is not recorded. It is catalogued as a Knorr Bremse product, which is plausible but there is no specific marking on the rifle to confirm that. Photos have existed online for a while, and it is widely regarded as an FG42 prototype because of its short length and side-mounted 7.92x57mm size magazine. However, Knorr Bremse was not ons of the companies that participated in the FG-42 program. So is it perhaps a late-war concept to replace the FG? Or something else entirely? We just really don't know, but I thought it was worth filming the gun to show the elements that are not visible in the online photos.

Thanks to the Springfield Armory National Historic Site for giving me access to this truly unique specimen from their reference collection to film for you! Don't miss the chance to visit the museum there if you have a day free in Springfield, Massachusetts:

https://www.nps.gov/spar/index.htm

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A WW2 German Mystery: Knorr Bremse FG42 Prototype? (Ad-free)

This is really a mystery rifle, or half of a mystery rifle. It is part of the collection at Springfield Armory National Historic Site, but its exact provenance from World War Two is not recorded. It is catalogued as a Knorr Bremse product, which is plausible but there is no specific marking on the rifle to confirm that. Photos have existed online for a while, and it is widely regarded as an FG42 prototype because of its short length and side-mounted 7.92x57mm size magazine. However, Knorr Bremse was not ons of the companies that participated in the FG-42 program. So is it perhaps a late-war concept to replace the FG? Or something else entirely? We just really don't know, but I thought it was worth filming the gun to show the elements that are not visible in the online photos. Thanks to the Springfield Armory National Historic Site for giving me access to this truly unique specimen from their reference collection to film for you! Don't miss the chance to visit the museum there if you have a day free in Springfield, Massachusetts: https://www.nps.gov/spar/index.htm The best firearms reference books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http://shop.forgottenweapons.com

Comments

Guido S

bulpup fg42? great for lefthanded but for righthanded with that magwell... gangster style shoulder it sideways or how to shoot this. complete must have looked very cool for sure.

JFLGA

If the missing buttstock added 8 " to 10" to the length of pull, it could have been fired from the shoulder by a right-handed shooter, I think.

Dale Farmer

Germany, especially late war, had this weird conglomeration of command economy (What Der Fuhrer wanted was holy writ) and freewheeling capitalism. Companies could do pretty much what they wanted to do within and around the directives from Hitler and Speer. Pure speculation, perhaps they had access to the FG42 data package, and decided to give a a prototype a try despite not being invited. Then at some point after some development, they shelved the project, where it sat in a storeroom, possibly damaged in a bombing raid, until after the war when someone recognized it as another weirdo nazi weapon and sent it off to springfield armory, with possible detour into a units trophy display, giving further chances to lose parts and documentation. It was a wild and wooly time.

Squid556

Holy smokes that’s a strange one

Jeff Price

Feels like last ditch FG-42 prototype, but who knows...