The 9×19mm MP 3008 (Maschinenpistole 3008 or "machine pistol 3008", also Volks-MP.3008 and Gerät Neumünster[1]) was a German last ditch submachine gun manufactured towards the end of World War II in early 1945.
The MP 3008 was an emergency measure, designed at a time when Germany was at the point of collapse.
Desperately short of raw materials, the Germans sought to produce a radically cheaper alternative to their standard submachine gun, the MP 40.
Initially all steel without handgrips, the wire buttstock was welded to the frame and was typically triangular, however the design changed as conditions inside Germany worsened and on final guns wooden stocks and other variations are found.
About 28,000 were claimed to have been produced,[3] but postwar interrogations of highly ranked Mauser personnel failed to provide proof that any more than 10,000 units had been made.