The MP-40 issue

I've noticed that eveyone makes a big deal about how the nazis use MP-40s even though it was made in 1940, before the movies take place, but an extremely similiar looking weapon was invnted in 1938, around the time of the movies.

MP-40
http://www.modelguns.co.uk/images/Mp40.jpg

MP-38
http://www.military-collections.com/Weapons/MP38.jpg

There were MP40s in Raiders and it is set in 1936. Indy uses a bazooka which was invented in WWII.

VP said:

There were MP40s in Raiders and it is set in 1936. Indy uses a bazooka which was invented in WWII.

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"Bazooka" ? It looked more like a Russian RPG to me. Perhaps it was supposed to be a Panzerfaust, but they didn't come in until late in WWII.

MP German designation means Machine Pistol, and the first version of that was the 1938 called the MP-38 a refined version was the MP-40 that saw widespread production and use at the time. Not correct for Raiders but maybe not well known at the time just like the U-Boat used in the film. Take it as you see it, or as you know it !