The War

So I'm watching Ken Burns' "The War" and they are showing some Wehrmacht footage. I think it was in the Hurtgen Forest. It was at least AROUND that time of the war. Some sniper with a BIG ol' scope is filmed. But the footage is off. Then it hits me. The rifle butt is in his right shoulder, and the bolt of the rifle is on the left side.

So it could be 2 things. A right handed shooter is using a left handed rifle (Yay, Lefites!)

Or...

A left handed shooter is using a right handed rifle, and footage is a mirror image of reality, inverted by someone along the line, either because of a mistage or because it somehow looked better if the shooter was looking THIS way rather than THAT way. And it wasn't necessarily altered by the Burns documentary people at any rate.

Another note. My mother's father was a Marine signlaman, 1/7, that died on Peleliu, and this documentary did a very good job packaging up a summary of the whole thing. I knew the details, but the show was concise in its explanation.