I think I owned one for a brief time years ago, but never had the chance to shoot it. Thought I read somewhere that Hitler may have carried one. German pistols of that era were made from good materials by expert workmen, but were too complicated, with too many small parts, and difficult to work on. The French bought hundreds of thousands of cheap Spanish handguns, mostly of excellent Browning design, simple to operate and dismantle for cleaning, but of dubious materials and indifferent workmanship. If someone could have combined the German materials and precision tooling with the simple, straightforward Browning design, they would have had a really excellent sidearm. The French R-51 got it about right for .32 pocket pistol.

I don't understand your reasoning since Germany invented the autopistol and had the C-96 and Luger already. Add the Walthers, including the excellent PPK and P-38 (world's first double-action) and you have a line of great well-made pistols. Sauer wanted to ship an Amboss to Hitler but it was not perfected in time for production. This fired a 9mm compression round that when strijing a solid object produced a 40mm blast!!! Postwar the Germans continued with the HK series and Walthers P-88, P-99QA, etc... even Mauser produced a M8 and they furnished the SEALS and their KAMPFSCHWIMMER with SOCOM weapons as well as the P-11 underwater dart pistol.

The C-96 and the P.08 are brilliant pieces of engineering. But they are very precisely hand fitted and rely upon perfect interaction of parts. If dirt or mud or substandard ammunition, or even slightly underpowered ammo gets into a Luger, it won't work. There were late war P.38 pistols that showed rough machining and lack of fine finish, and they still worked. You'll never see a "last ditch" Luger, the way you do with Type 99 Japanese rifles or very late war Nambu and Type 94 pistols. I've heard of several cases of PP or PPK pistols failing to fire under stressful conditions. I have no experience with the MP-5, certain politicians who fail to grasp the plain meaning of the Second Amendment have made that impossible for a peasant. I know they are quite popular with police departments who buy them mostly because they can have them and we can't. How does the MP-5 compare with mud and sand conditions compared to the much simpler Uzi? I'd like to know more about that pistol that gave a 9mm projectile the impact of a 40mm.

The Sauer Amboss (Anvil) was an experimental pistol that fired a compressed lead azide and another explosive mix round. It was standard 9mm and if it hit a person would not explode. But if you hit a light armored vehicle or something really solid like a concrete bunker it would produce a 40mm blast. Tha Amboss was one of many trick guns the Germans experimented with. Others fired rocket bullets (before the Gyrojet) or were Flak Gas guns... even a magnesium ray gun!!! AFAIK, several late-war weapons were to be shipped to the bunker, largely emergency VG guns, but also new assault rifles and rocket weapons. Blonde Valkyrie got her hands on a Gustloff VG assault weapon and put it to use!