the first designation for the Stg44 was MP44...

ahh the MP-43 naming scheme to get the StG name approved

Hitler: "An automatic carbine? Nein. We're going to waste so much ammo".
Also Hitler: "Oh, I love this automatic carbine, I'm gonna call it 'assault rifle' for propaganda purposes".

Pronak said:

Hitler: "An automatic carbine? Nein. We're going to waste so much ammo".
Also Hitler: "Oh, I love this automatic carbine, I'm gonna call it 'assault rifle' for propaganda purposes".

This is a Sturmgewehr. It's a Gewehr for stürming fortifications.

Fun fact, in DDR(Deutsche Demokratische Republik\East Germany) all AK variants that they adopted was named SMG(MPi), for example MPi-K (Maschinenpistole Kalaschnikow).

Day 46. The submachine guns still have not realized that I am a rifle.

Pz_3 said:

Fun fact, in DDR(Deutsche Demokratische Republik\East Germany) all AK variants that they adopted was named SMG(MPi), for example MPi-K (Maschinenpistole Kalaschnikow).

Well, they followed the identification of Warsaw Pact after all. To this day, some countries like Vietnam still list Assault Rifle as Sub machine gun, for example the STL-1A (or STL-A1 in some documents), a local improved variant of AKM, "STL" stands for "Súng Tiểu Liên"-means Sub machine gun in Vietnamese