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Well- it was true. Their weapons were better than ours in both wars (the two exceptions being the M1 infantry rifle of the Americans and our long range bombers.)

I totally disagree, but agree on the Garad. It's mostly mythology and wishful thinking that give the romance of being "advanced" to many German, so-called, "Superweapons". I will, however, give credit where due. The German "88" was lethal in all its applications. Artillery to air defense. That's as far as I go.

German Tanks against the Sherman? Even Czech confiscated armored vehichles in the Wermacht had more armour and stopping power than our Shermans. What about the MG42 heavy machine guns? Far superior to ours. The MP32 machine pistol had a faster rate of fire and more accuracy against the Thompson sub machine gun. German artillery was light years ahead of ours in both killing power and accuracy. German aircraft were far better (but numbers meant everything and we easily defeated them in the air). On nearly every level German heavy weapons and light weapons were far better than ours. Even though the Garand was far superiour to the K98 bolt action mauser- even that was a great accurate weapon. I also forgot the BAR- A great ligh machine gun. But the Germans produced the MG44 late in the war to match it and it was better than the BAR.