BearFedFuck off, Jerry!
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Explanation: After some three years of European powers brutally bludgeoning, bayoneting, machine-gunning, and using chemical weapons on each other in WW1, the Americans entered the war. We, of course, immediately indulged in the same bludgeoning, bayoneting, machine-gunning, and chemical weapons as every else did, but we also brought a large quantity of pump-action shotguns to the fight, with brutal effect in the tight confines of the trenches.
The German Empire lodged a formal complaint that the use of shotguns was against the laws of war due to the inhumane nature of the weapon. "Lol", said everyone else, "lmao"
"Jerry" is a nickname for German soldiers; just as British troops were sometimes called "Tommy".
It's this where the name for Tom and Jerry cartoons originated from? They were always fighting :o
Jerry always wins, though:
Was it not the Canadians with the shotguns? Or both?
Some Allied shock forces used shotguns in small numbers before the entrance of the Americans into the war - notably in my recollection, the French Nettoyeurs de Tranchées, 'Trench-Cleaners', but us Americans brought huge numbers of them in comparison, making it suddenly a very prominent issue.
Canadians were highly regarded as shock-troops and trench raiders, so it wouldn't surprise me if there was pre-existing shotgun use amongst the Canadians, but the Americans are the ones who made the Germans take note of the weapon.