Reason for offset German sights?

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Originally Posted by Von_G

Hmm...
That's interesting but it seems to be describing the offset of the projectiles nose, rather than the sight.

It seems the right eye thing, and keeping the view of the nose open are the best potential answers, although frankly neither one seems like an especially strong reason.
Maybe as KOM.nausicaa says, the germans just feel a need to be different!

Yes it describes the drag effect on a projectile's nose, but with it spinning through the air in a clockwise direction this effect will cause the projectile to drift to the right of its intended flight path, hence the need to have the gun sight slightly to the right in the pit.

But the thing that doesn't convince me of this idea being reason for offsetting the gun sight, is that I think the effect of this drift on weapons with a convergence of 300m or even 500m would be very minimal, and also the fact that allied planes had the sight in the centre.

I'm leaning towards KOM.Nausicaa descriptions.