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Originally Posted by temujin77
4. I've heard Imperial weapons resemble German rifles, which quite honestly I am not an expert on, so I don't know if that one was true or not...
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The trivia section on
IMDB.com mentions that the rifles used by the Clone Army was based on the MG-42 - "Hitler's Buzzsaw" (see
here in second picture).
IMDB also said that the ending award ceremony scene from Episode IV was taken directly from Triumph des Willens, the 1935 Nazi propaganda film featuring Adolf Hitler as himself.
Lastly, IMDB also mentioned that the way Palpatine assumes emergency powers to suppress separatists mimiced the way Hitler did so during his rise to power. I guess I didn't consciously connect those dots while watching Episode I or II but after I read that it seemed pretty obvious.
I hadn't heard about the Han Solo blaster-Luger connection, but that's pretty interesting. The blaster did kind of look like a Luger. "Some hokey religion is no replacement for a blaster at your side"....or something like that.....