big412:

The short answer to your question is no, opinion specific to the Germans due to the Great War had little to do with it. For the Germans to have bested the Brits in the DR game, they would have needed to do so before the type went into general decline. Like I said, long before WWII.

The double rifle as a type peaked before WWI. Post-WWI DR production began as a shadow of pre-war levels and declined from there through the '20s and '30s. Overall DR production since WWII is a drop in the bucket in comparison to that of the prewar period.

The post WWI decline in demand for DRs effected everyone and was due solely to economics. Double rifles were exclusively British and European in origin, and the market for them was almost exclusively so in those days. WWI left Britain and Europe bankrupt. The world-wide market crash in 1929 only extended the austerity.
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