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MG34 with front and rear sights folded down - 7.92x57mm Mauser
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MG34 with 50 round belt drum Gurtrommel 34 - 7.92x57mm Mauser
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MG34 with 75 round saddle drum magazine Patronentrommel 34 - 7.92x57mm Mauser
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MG34 on tripod - 7.92x57mm Mauser
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MG34 Panzerlauf with stock fitted - 7.92x57mm Mauser

The MG34 is a general-purpose machine gun produced by Germany during the Second World War. The forerunner of the more widely produced MG42, the weapon was noted for long production times due to use of time-intensive machined parts, but remained in production alongside its replacement throughout the war. It was developed to fit a tactical concept called the "universal machine gun," wherein the same weapon would be used in both the light and medium machine gun roles: what is today known as a general-purpose machine gun.

A variation of the gun, the MG34 Panzerlauf, was commonly used as secondary armament on German tanks, since the MG42's barrel change system could not easily be operated when it was mounted. This version lacked a stock, featured an armored barrel shroud and could be fitted with a solenoid for remote firing. Tanks carried a kit to allow the Panzerlauf variant to be converted for ground use, including a stock and bipod.

The MG34 could use several different feeding variations: for use as a medium machine gun, it was issued with loose 250 round metal belts with disintegrating links (which could be linked together as desired). When employed as a light machine gun it was instead used with a drum called the Gurttrommel 34 which mounted to the left side of the weapon and contained a 50-round belt. It could also use 75 round saddle drum magazines called Patronentrommel 34. To use the latter, the standard feed cover had to be replaced with a magazine holder. This feeding variant was mainly used early in the war and often when the MG34 was utilized as AA gun or mounted on a tripod. Later in the war those were not supplied anymore as they were very complicated to reload and even needed a tool for this, and the ability to use this magazine was eliminated entirely on the MG42.

Specifications

Caliber: 7.92x57mm

Length: 48.25 inches

Barrel Length: 24.75 inches

Weight: 26.75 pounds

Capacity: 50 round belt drum, 75 round twin drum (with replacement receiver cover), belt (typically issued as 50 or 250 round)

Fire modes: Safe/Semi-Auto/Full-Auto

The MG34 machine gun can be seen in the following films and video games used by the following actors:

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Fighting Film Collection No. 1 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 1) German soldiers In documentary footage 1941
Fighting Film Collection No. 3 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 3) MG34 Panzerlauf, Mounted on Pz.II tank, in documentary footage 1941
Lad from Our Town (Paren iz Nashego Goroda) Mounted on German motorcycle 1942
Antosha Rybkin Grigoriy Shpigel A German soldier 1942
Boris Chirkov Antosha Rybkin
We Will Come Back (Sekretar raykoma) Mikhail Kuznetsov Sasha Rusov 1942
Pyotr Lyubeshkin Feduyshin
German troops and Soviet partisans
Our Girls (Nashi devushki) German soldiers Mounted on motorcycle 1942
Two Soldiers (Dva boytsa) MG34 Panzerlauf, mounted on Pz.III 1943
Invincible (Nepobedimye) German and Soviet soldiers 1943
Native Shores (Rodnye berega) German soldiers 1943
A Good Lad (Slavnyy malyy) German soldiers 1943
The Front Seen in the pillbox; on tripod 1943
Ivan Nikulin: Russian Sailor (Ivan Nikulin - Russkiy Matros) Boris Chirkov Zakhar Fomichyov 1944
German soldiers and Soviet sailors
The Marine Battalion (Morskoy batalion) German soldiers 1944
Six P.M. (V shest chasov vechera posle voyny) German soldiers 1944
The Battle of the Rails (La bataille du rail) German soldiers, French Resistance fighters 1946
Zigmund Kolosovskiy German soldiers Mostly on tripod 1946
The Road Home (Synovya) German soldiers, Soviet partisans 1946
Victorious Return (Majup ar uzvaru) German soldiers, Soviet partisans 1948
The Silent Barricade A German soldier 1949
The Star (Zvezda) German soldiers 1949
The Battle of Stalingrad (Stalingradskaya bitva), Part I German soldiers 1949
The Battle of Stalingrad (Stalingradskaya bitva), Part II German and Romanian soldiers 1949
The Secret Brigade (Konstantin Zaslonov) German soldiers, Soviet partisans 1949
Little Partisan (Malý partyzán) German soldiers 1950
Breakthrough German soldiers with Gurtrommel 1950
The Unforgettable Year 1919 (Nezabyvaemyy 1919 god) On tripod; seen in Whites headquarters 1951
Action B (Akce B) UPA fighters 1952
Paratrooper German soldiers 1953
Ernst Thälmann - Leader of his Class German soldiers 1955
Soldiers (Soldaty) German soldiers, Russian soldiers 1956
Murder on Dante Street (Ubiystvo na ulitse Dante) German soldiers Mounted on M3 Scout Car 1956
Canal (Kanal) A Polish insurgent 1957
Darby's Rangers German paratroopers 1958
Dunkirk German soldiers 1958
The Unconquered (Neporazení) German soldiers 1958
The Black Battalion (Cerný prapor) French Foreign Legion 1958
Destiny of a Man (Sudba cheloveka) German soldiers 1959
Fortress on Wheels (Krepost na kolesah) German soldiers and Soviet partisans 1960
Five Branded Women Alex Nicol Svenko 1960
An Italian partisan
The Last Salvo (Posledniye zalpy) Mikhail Kozakov Starshina Gorbachyov 1960
Spring (Kwiecien) German soldiers 1961
Operation Caviar German soldiers mounted on a Volkswagen Type 166 Schwimmwagen 1961
Tam za lesem German soldiers 1962
The Four Days of Naples German soldiers 1962
Death Is Called Engelchen German troops, Partisans 1963
The Third Flare (Tretya raketa) Yuriy Dubrovin Pvt. Krivenok 1963
Gdzie jest general? German soldiers 1964
At Your Threshold (U Tvoyego Poroga) Mounted in German Pz.Kpfw.IV medium tank 1964
The Assassination (Atentát) German soldiers 1964
The Living and the Dead (Zhivye i Myortvye) Russian soldiers 1964
Attack and Retreat (Italiani brava gente) Italian soldiers 1964
Across the Cemetery (Cherez kladbishche) German soldiers On tripod 1965
The Adventures of Werner Holt (Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt) Klaus-Peter Thiele Werner Holt 1965
Manfred Karge Gilbert Wolzow
German soldiers
Pierrot Goes Wild (Pierrot le Fou) OAS members 1965
No Unknown Soldiers (Net neizvestnykh soldat) German soldiers 1965
The Hunchback of Soho Seen in Gen. Perkins' "war room" 1966
Cast a Giant Shadow Kirk Douglas "Mickey" Marcus 1966
And All Will Be Quiet (Potem nastapi cisza) German soldiers 1966
Trap (Zapadnya) German soldiers 1966
They Were Known Only by Sight (Ikh znali tolko v litso) German soldiers 1966
Alpine Ballad (Alpiyskaya ballada) German soldiers Mounted on motorcycles 1966
Spring on The Oder (Vesna na Odere) German soldiers 1967
Zhenya, Zhenechka and "katyusha" German soldiers 1967
Krepkiy oreshek German soldiers 1967
Westerplatte German soldiers 1967
Way into "Saturn" (Put v "Saturn") Soviet partisans 1967
The End of "Saturn" (Konets "Saturna") German soldiers Mounted on BTR-152 1968
At War as at War (Na Voyne kak na Voyne) German soldier 1968
The Marathon (Maratón) German soldiers and Czech insurgents 1968
The Shield and the Sword (Shchit i mech) Georgiy Martynyuk Aleksey Zubov alias Alois Hagen 1968
German soldiers
Fit for Non-Combatant Duty (Goden k nestroevoy) German soldiers Mounted on motorcycles 1968
I Was Nineteen (Ich war neunzehn) German soldiers Also seen in a pile of surrendered weapons 1968
The Scouts (Razvedchiki) German soldiers 1968
The Bridge at Remagen German soldiers 1969
Play Dirty German soldiers 1969
Michael Caine Captain Douglas
The Battle of Neretva German troops, Ustasha, chetniks and partisans 1969
Ljubisa Samardzic Novak
On the way to Berlin (Na puti v Berlin) German soldiers 1969
The Bridge (Most) Boro Begovic "Tihi" 1969
Jovan Janicijevic-Burdus Mane Svercer
German soldiers
The Naval Mettle (Morskoy kharakter) German soldiers 1970
Bedknobs and Broomsticks German soldiers 1971
No Way Back (Obratnoj dorogi net) German soldiers 1971
Liberation: The Last Assault German soldiers 1971
Trial of the Road (Proverka na dorogakh) German soldiers Mounted on motorcycle 1971
Izhora Battalion (Izhorskiy batalyon) A German soldier 1972
Oasis Josef Vinklár Nowak 1973
Zdenek Rehor Berg
Jaroslav Rozsíval Olda
Man in the Trunk (La Valise) Tunisian troops 1973
Poem of Kovpak: Alarm (Duma o Kovpake: Nabat) German soldiers and Soviet partisans 1973
Long Miles of War (Dolgie vyorsty voyny) Boris Shcherbakov Ovseyev 1975
Long Miles of War (Dolgie vyorsty voyny) Yuri Duvanov Klimchuk 1975
Chained Drivers (Okovani šoferi) Veljko Mandic Kosta 1975
Chained Drivers (Okovani šoferi) Viktor Pavlov Feldwebel Ramke 1975
Chained Drivers (Okovani šoferi) German soldiers, Yugoslavian partisans 1975
Libera, My Love (Libera, amore mio ...) Claudia Cardinale Libera Valente handed to the partisans 1975
Libera, My Love (Libera, amore mio ...) Italian partisans 1975
Front Without Flanks (Front bez flangov) German soldiers 1975
Poem of Kovpak: Snow-Storm (Duma o Kovpake: Buran) German soldiers and Soviet partisans 1975
The Seventh Company Has Been Found (On a retrouvé la 7ème compagnie!) German soldiers Mounted on motorcycle 1975
The Eagle Has Landed German soldiers Mounted on motorcycle side car 1976
The Anxious Month of September (Trevozhnyy Mesyats Veresen) Viktor Fokin Ivan Kapelyukh 1976
Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians... (Duma o Kovpake: Karpaty, Karpaty...) Nikolay Merzlikin Vasily Nikolayev 1976
Viktor Plotnikov Medved
German soldiers and Soviet partisans
Port German soldiers Standard and Panzerlauf 1976
The Good and the Bad (Le bon et les méchants) German soldiers 1976
Star Wars (Original Trilogy) Imperial Stormtroopers As the "DLT-19 heavy blaster rifle" 1977, 1980, 1983
Soldier of Orange German soldiers 1977
A Bridge Too Far German soldiers 1977
One-Two, Soldiers Were Going... German soldiers Mounted on motorcycle 1977
Front Beyond the Front Line (Front za liniey fronta) German soldiers 1977
The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye) German soldiers On tripod 1977
Mama, I'm Alive (Mama, ich lebe) Peter Prager Günther Becker 1977
Night Over Chile (Noch nad Chili) Chilean soldiers On bipod and tripod 1977
Special Destination Force (Otryad osobogo naznacheniya) German soldiers 1978
From Hell to Victory German soldiers 1979
Escape to Athena German soldiers 1979
Country Trip of Sergeant Tsybulya (Dachnaya poezdka serzhanta Tsybuli) Sergei Ivanov Sgt. Tsybulya 1979
Vladimir Alekseyenko Grandfather Karpo Mounted on BTR-152
German soldiers Mounted on BTR-152, motorcycles, armoured train
Stalker Seen abandoned 1979
The Big Red One German and Italian troops 1980
We Take All Upon Ourselves (Beryom vsyo na sebya) German soldiers 1980
From the Bug to the Vistula (Ot Buga do Visly) Aleksandr Denisov Anton Zemlyanko 1980
German soldiers and Soviet partisans
Mercedes Gets Away from the Chase ('Mersedes' ukhodit ot pogoni) Igor Livanov Lt. Aleksandr Yermolenko 1980
Mikhail Golubovich Starshina (Sgt. Maj.) Ivan Golovin
Anatoliy Rudakov Sr. Sgt. Leonid Mikhaylov
German troops
Raiders of the Lost Ark Billy Horrigan Gunner Mounted on Gobler's car 1981
Front in the Rear of the Enemy (Front v tylu vraga) German and Soviet soldiers 1981
The Keep German soldiers 1983
The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley (Pasácek z doliny) Czechoslovak soldiers 1983
The Fourth Year of War (Shyol chetvyortyy god voyny...) German soldiers Mounted on motorcycle and half-track APC 1983
Les Morfalous German soldiers 1984
Top Secret! East German soldiers Mounted on the car 1984
Until the End (Až do konce) Vítezslav Jandák Scharführer SS Otto 1984
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission A German soldier 1985
Battle for Moscow German soldiers real MG34 can be seen only in documentary footage. Other MG34 actually visually modified PK machine guns 1985
A Youth Orchestra (Orkestar jedne mladosti) German soldiers 1985
Come and See (Idi i smotri) SS soldiers 1985
Counter-offensive (Kontrudar) German soldiers 1985
The Red Spectacles Members of the Kerberos Squad 1987
Escape from Sobibor Ukrainian Guards 1987
The Russians Are Coming 1987
Before Sunrise (Pered rassvetom) German soldiers Mounted on motorcycles 1989
Gu-Ga German and Soviet soldiers 1989
It's We, O God! (Eto mi, Gospodi!..) German soldiers 1990
Europa Europa Marco Hofschneider Salomon Perel 1990
Hanns Zischler Captain von Lereneau
German soldiers
Schindler's List German soldiers Mounted on motorcycle side car 1993
Stalingrad German soldiers 1993
Sahara (1995) German soldiers 1995
Saving Private Ryan German soldiers MG34 Panzerlauf, mounted on Tiger tanks 1998
Brother 2 (Brat 2) In illegal Fascist's gunshop 2000
Charlotte Gray German soldiers 2001
Avalon A single Class-B player 2001
Edges of the Lord German soldiers 2001
In August of 1944 Seen in village chairman house and on former battlefield 2001
We Were Soldiers NVA soldiers 2002
The Star (Zvezda) German soldiers 2002
Warriors (Guerreros) Albanian soldiers Bipod-mounted and tripod-mounted 2002
Senso '45 German troops 2002
Strange Gardens (Effroyables jardins) Nazi German soldiers Mounted on the tank 2003
Zelary German soldier Mounted on a motorcycle 2003
Our Own (Svoi) various characters Mounted on motorcycles, halftruck APC and Pz.Kpfw.IV, and used on bipod 2004
The Island (Ostrov) German soldier 2006
Attack on Leningrad German soldier Mounted on a motorcycle 2007
The Bridge German soldiers Bipod-mounted 2008
Death Race Max Ryan Pachenko Four MG-34 Light Machine Guns mount on Pachenko's 1966 Buick Riviera 2008
Female Agents German soldier Mounted on a motorcycle sidecar 2008
Crossfire (Les Insoumis) In the warehouse of weapons 2008
Hitler's Kaput! (Gitler kaput!) German soldiers 2008
Max Manus: Man of War German troops 2008
U-900 German soldiers on tripod 2008
Brother's War A German soldier 2009
Dnieper Line: Love and War German soldiers 2009
Spoils of War 2009
The Priest (Pop) German and Soviet soldiers 2009
Lieutenant Suvorov Aleksandr Lyapin Lt. Aleksandr Suvorov 2009
Lieutenant Suvorov German and Soviet soldiers 2009
Degraded Officer (Razzhalovannyi) German soldiers 2009
Pillbox (Dot) German soldiers 2009
The Golden Mean (Zolotoe sechenie) Oksana Skakun female model with 50 round belt drum magazine 2010
Vadim Skvirskiy Jean-Paul with 75 round saddle drum magazine
The Brest Fortress (Brestskaya Krepost) German soldiers, Red Army soldiers 2010
Habermann German troops 2010
What Men Talk About (O chyom govoryat muzhchiny) German soldiers 2010
Paradox Soldiers (My iz budushchego 2) German troops 2010
Memorial Day German soldiers 2011
New Kids Nitro Flip van der Kuil Barrie dual-mounted in the back of a sports car, fitted with extra barrel covers 2011
My Way Wehrmacht soldiers 2011
War of the Dead 2011
Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed German soldiers man-portable, mounted on SdKfz Halftrack and Panzer tank 2012
Manhunt (Oblawa) Polish partisans 2012
Red Tails German troops twin AA mount 2012
Red Tails German troops on halftrack 2012
Stalingrad German and Russian soldiers bipod and tripod-mounted 2013
Run Boy Run German soldiers mounted on motorcycles 2013
Fury MG34 Panzerlauf, mounted on Tiger I Tank 2014
13 Minutes German soldiers with Gurtrommel 2015
Battle of Sevastopol (Bitva za Sevastopol) German soldiers 2015
Battery Number One (Edinichka) Barrels mounted on mockup German tanks 2015
War Pigs German soldiers Mounted on a half-track 2015
Anthropoid German soldiers 2016
Allied German soldiers Seen mounted on a halftrack 2016
Anthropoid SS soldiers 2016
Panfilov's 28 (28 panfilovtsev) German soldiers 2016
To Paris! (Na Parizh) Daniil Vakhrushev Volkssturmmann Walter Doring 2019

Television

Title Actor Character Note / Episode Date
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. THRUSH operatives 1964-1968
Stawka wieksza niz zycie German soldiers 1966-68
Czterej pancerni i pies German soldiers 1966-1970
Seventeen Moments of Spring German soldiers 1973
Omega Option (Variant "Omega") German soldiers Mounted on motorcycle; in documentary footage infantry and mounted on half-track APC 1975
Waves of the Black Sea (Volny Chyornogo morya) German soldiers Film 3 1976
Born by Revolution: On the Night of the 20th (Rozhdyonnaya revolyutsiey: V noch na 20-e) Soviet partisans 1976
Archiv des Todes German soldiers "Wettlauf mit der Zeit" (S1E09) 1980
Long Road in the Dunes (Ilgais cels kapas) German soldiers Ep.4,5 1982
MG34 Panzerlauf, mounted on Tiger I tank; documentary footage, Ep.5
Take Him Alive (Vzyat zhivym) Fyodor Sukhov Lt. Vasiliy Romashkin 1983
German soldiers
Front Without Mercy (Front ohne Gnade) SS personnel, Wehrmacht soldiers Ep.2,10 1984
Confrontation (Protivostoyanie) German Volkssturm Documentary footage 1985
Bergerac German soldiers "Sins of the Fathers" (S04E08) 1985
Special Operations Squad (Otryad spetsyalnogo naznacheniya) German soldiers, Soviet partisans 1987
Sahara (1995) Alan David Lee Bates 1995
March of Millions German soldiers Ep. 2 2007
"Narkomovskiy" Train (Narkomovskiy oboz) Sergey Makhovikov Starshina Viktor Filippov 2011
Vlad Furman Capt. Aleksandr Baragozov
German soldiers
Red Mountains (Krasnye gory) Nazi German soldiers 2013
Snipers. Love Under the Gun (Snaypery. Lyubov pod pritselom) German troops, Soviet scout 2013
Our Mothers, Our Fathers German soldiers 2013
Foyle's War - Season 8 German soldiers "Sunflower" (S8E3) 2013
Ash (Pepel) German soldiers Mounted on motorcycle and Kettenkrad half-track motorcycle 2013
Spies (Razvedchitsy) Anatoliy Rudenko Vladimir Semyonov 2013
German soldiers, Polish partisans
Days of Honour. Uprising (Czas honoru. Powstanie) German soldiers 2014
Front German soldiers Mounted on motorcycles 2014
Bitch War (Suchya voyna) German soldiers Mounted on motorcycle 2014
The Executioner (Palach) German soldiers Mounted on motorcycles 2015
SS-GB German military 2017
Hunting the Devil (Okhota na dyavola) SS guards On tripod and on motorcycle 2017
One Warrior in the Field (Odin v pole voin) Aleksandr Sokolovskiy Capt. Andrey Perevezyev On motorcycle 2018
German soldiers On motorcycles and an armored car
The Last Battle (Posledniy boy) Igor Petrusenko Igor Runge 2019
Vladimir Gorislavets Yashka
German soldiers On motorcycles and an armored car
Subject to Destruction (Podlezhit unichtozheniyu) German soldiers 2019

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines Hull mounted on Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks 1998
Medal of Honor: Underground Mounted in Panzer II and Panzer III tanks 2000
Return to Castle Wolfenstein Mounted in Panzer II and Panzer III tanks 2001
Medal of Honor: Frontline 2002
Call of Duty Mounted on German tanks 2003
Day of Defeat 2003
Forgotten Hope MG34 Man-portable, mounted on M2 tripod, bunkers and machine gun nests, Sturmboot landing craft, Type 166 Schwimmwagen, SdKfz 251/1 "Hanomag" Halftrack, SdKfz 222 Armored Car, Panzer II, III, IV, Sturmpanzer IV Brummbär, Panther and Tiger tanks and Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber 2003
Call of Duty: United Offensive MG34 Man-portable and vehicle-mounted 2004
Call of Duty 3 MG34 2006
Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 MG34 With deployable mod Mounted on SdKfz 251 Ausf D Haltrack, Marder III Tank Destroyer, Stug III Assault Gun, Panzer III, Panzer IV, Panther and Tiger tanks and Jagdpanther and Jagdtiger tank destroyers 2006
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 MG34 Man-portable, mounted on SdKfz 251 halftrack, Panzer III/IV F1/F2/G/H, Panther and Tiger tanks 2006
Mare Nostrum MG34 2008
Wolfenstein Mounted on Tiger tanks 2009
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Added in Battlefield: Vietnam, Mounted on T54 tanks and GAZ69 trucks 2010
World War II Online: Battleground Europe MG34 2001-2011
Deadfall Adventures MG-34 with 50 round drum 2013
Assassin's Creed Unity with 50 round drum, 5mm shield & anti-aircraft sight 2014
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly MG 34 can be mounted on a BMW motorcycle 2014
Heroes & Generals MG34 infantry and vehicle mounted variants 2016
Day of Infamy MG 34 with 50 round drum 2017
Post Scriptum "MG 34" Gurtrommel assault drum infantry configuration, Lafette and vehicle mounted, and Panzerlauf version 2018
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare MG34 with 50 round drum 2019
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War mounted in King Tiger Tank 2020

Anime

Anime Title Character Note Date
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro Jodo 1979
Seven Cities Story: Arctic Front Aquironia soldier 1994
Najica Blitz Tactics Lady "Mission: 007 - The Murderous Bullet Shot with a Wry Smile" 2001
Strike Witches Hanna Justina Marseille 2008
Strike Witches 2 Hanna Justina Marseille 2010
Asobi ni Ikuyo: Bombshells from the Sky Mounted on Tiger I heavy tanks 2010
Strike Witches: The Movie mounted in Tiger I tanks 2012
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Rudol von Stroheim S1E26, "The Ascendant One" 2012
Girl Und Panzer Kuromorimine Girls High School Mounted on all German WWII tanks 2012 - 2013
Girls Und Panzer: Der Film Oarai and Kuromorimine Girls Academy Mounted on all German WWII tanks 2015
Izetta: The Last Witch Germania infantryman Panzerlauf variants mounted on Germanian tanks 2016
Brave Witches Panzer IV Ausf. G tanks 2016 - 2017