What happened to all the guns of the dead during WWII?

by lordvatti

World War Two has the largest body count ever... and most of those soldiers had guns. Did soldiers strip weapons and munitions from the enemy? Would an american, for instance, drop his M1 for an MP-40? Was it all sent home and smelted down? Very curious!

prozergter

To piggyback on this question: to what extend were enemy weapons and munitions reused and what were the rules on this?