The NCO who turns a gesture into an order
The pointing non-commissioned officer represents the small-unit leadership on which an infantry section depended. His MP40 marks him out visually, but the essential action is the direction he gives to the men around him.
The weapon is often called a Schmeisser in wartime stories, although Hugo Schmeisser did not design the MP40. That persistent misnaming is a useful reminder to look past familiar labels. The figure's military setting is the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany; its subject is an infantry role within that historical organization.
