Do these PODs = Nazi Victory?

The big problems with the Sturmgewar are crappy ballistics from a bullet at least 20 grains overweight for its charge, and a positively Rube Goldbergian receiver and trigger mechanism, with 208 different moving parts, and none of them redundancy for reliability.
 

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The big problems with the Sturmgewar are crappy ballistics from a bullet at least 20 grains overweight for its charge
Based on what? They couldn't really hit anything over 300m without quality optics and training and during the war the low level of marksmanship training of conscripts and lack of optics meant engagements took place usually below 300m and most often at 200m and below (over 80% of engagements). That was confirmed by the US army in the Korean war, which helped lead to the M16. So given that the StG 44 round was really not useful beyond 300m, it's charge was just fine for the ranges it actually fought at and was in fact designed to fight at given the understanding that they were not going to fight beyond 300m and mostly at 200m or less.
 
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https://www.amazon.com/Sturmgerwehr-Hans-Diete-Handrich/dp/0889353565
It has been said that Adolf Hitler was the greatest general the Allies had during World War II, and several examples of his fatefully bungled tactical decisions are discussed. None was perhaps more significant than his refusal - on three separate occasions during 1942 and 1943 - to sanction the adoption of the intermediate-calibre assault rifle as the general-purpose infantry weapon. Its acceptance and fielding thus proved to be a long, tortuous and never-fully-completed process, and, as a measure of the complexity of the story, in all of German small arms history, no weapon was renamed so often within such a short period of time. Its ultimate name, Sturmgewehr 44, was belatedly bestowed in October 1944 by Hitler himself after his early failures to appreciate the advantages of the assault rifle had delayed the programme for a full year, and by the time he changed his mind, a general rearming was out of the question. Nevertheless, the Sturmgewehr was by far the most important and influential small arm and cartridge of World War II.
So it looks like some time in late summer/early autumn the StG44 could have been adopted whole sale and allowed for a rearming of the army with the weapon.
 
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