Why did the Nazi’s swap their Mausers for Muskets in WWII?

Were 187,000 soldiers taken off the frontline to play extras in a Nazi movie in the late parts of World War II?

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Credit:
Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
Script: Conan White
Narrator:

Chris Kane

Sources:
Selling Hitler by Nicholas O’Shaughnessy
A Critical History of German Film by Stephen Brockmann
Nazi Propaganda Films by Rolf Giesen
World on Film by Martha P Nochimson

[ScorpoYT]

Germans: "running out of recources"
Gobbels: "yep, it's movie production time"

[Imnotsmgbob]

Time traveler: **steps on a stone**

*The timeline:*

[superpacocaalado]

"So what have you done during WW2 as a German soldier?"

"I fought Napoleon's army"

[christopherpeery]

*Germany runs low on resources and is about to collapse

Hitler: let's make a $192 million movie!

[kendrickrochelanzot]

Nazis: *swaps to musket*

The Allies: your tactics confuse and frighten me, sir

[thetimeywimeycornerofhisto]

Random American soldier: "erm, commander, why are the enemy in Napoleonic uniform?"
British soldier running past, pulling out a sword and running forward: "ILL DO IT AGAIN YOU BUNCH OF FREAKS!"

[marrenirre]

Long story short:
They didn't swap Mausers for Muskets.
8 minutes of my life that i never get back :(

[liamweaver]

There’s an old joke in Poland that goes: “What’s worse than being occupied by the Nazis? Being liberated by the Soviets!”

[agniteyt]

When you want to shoot a movie about beating Napoleon at 6 then defend Berlin at 9

[Simplehistory]

1945 With the allies closing in on both sides, The Nazis took troops off the frontline to make a propaganda epic, 'Kolberg' to motivate Germany to fight to the bitter end.
You may notice Prussians in shakos fighting an entire French Army in bicornes - thats what this propaganda movie set in the Napoleonic war decided to go for!

[artemshevtsov]

“No my smoking doesn’t affect my baby”

The baby: “the Soviets liberated Poland”

[Reupload-Kanal-Von-Lukas-Heil]

Germany: Uses muskets
US Army: wait that´s illegal

[linnymiddy]

When you grind for the golden skins on all guns, you use the old stuff too

[anthonyle]

Imagine making a movie in war torn German seeing your people die in Berlin but you have to be in a movie about the Napoleonic war

[kinocorner]

“Liberated Warsaw”

The Polish: “Sort of missing the germans now.”

[FleischerJack]

You really said "Soviets liberated Warsaw from the Nazis"

I think your definition of "liberated" is completely different from the rest of us here, aren't you?

[tomhiscocks]

Just imagine you’re a Red Army soldier running through the streets of Berlin and all of a sudden you hear, “MAKE READY…..PRESENT…..FIRE!!!!”

[gatorstudioes]

Kinda clickbait I thought that there might have been a battle were the germans had to use muskets instead of Mausers due to lack of equipment...

[BOB-wxfq]

The troops used were often veterans, I believe from the 10th panzer who had been in hard fighting, so it was actually serving a double purpose pulling them off the line

Germany always somehow was able to rotate units all the way until 45

[Nahuel_Luna]

Hans: Captain, do we have flamethrowers?
Captain: Nein, we have something much better, muskets and popcorn