SOE (Special Operations Executive) (Page 5 of 8)

Thanks Asp9mm 

I believe it was about 480 - 520 rounds a minute.

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I've fired the Sterling a few times. It was a long time ago but as I remember it was a good solid weapon.

I assume the German stens were not secretly made by the resistance, like they were in some occupied countries? I knew Germany used captured Stenguns. Otto Scorzeny (Commander of SS special forces) used a suppressed Stengun.

Part of Stengun made secretly in occupied Norway

German SS-soldiers with Stenguns

You listed Germany as one of the countries that produced the Stengun. Was that the nazi regime making copies or (less likely) the underground resistance making them illegally?

The Sten in the last photo looks like those issued to British airborne units, perhaps they were taken into service after being captured at Arnhem?

It's a copy of the MK V they have there.

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It is rare indeed: Here is a copy of a research made about arms manufacture in Finland from 1938 to 1945: file:///C:/Users/Omistaja/Downloads/47703-36409-1-PB.pdf 
On the page 181 you'll find a table about small arms. It is in Finnish so I'll provide you with relevant translations:
ARMS MANUFACTURE IN FINLAND IN DURATION OF OUR WARS
                                      1938             1939         1940       1941-      1942       1943    1944      1945    All. Attn.
1. 7,62-20 mm weapons
1.1. Kiv m/39 ................                                                     16000     12000    37646     18183   6500    90329           (rifle m39)
1.2. L-S pk/26 .............•. 3740                               90           11          500                                               4341 (Lahti-Saloranta LMG)
1.3.7,62 kk/09-30 .......... 425               395             46           15                                                               881 (Machine Gun/09-30 similar to British Vickers)
1.4. Yleiskk "Sampo" .....                                                                        35                                                 35 (LMG)
1.5. 9,00 kp/31 ja 44• ...... 5617       1979        4675        15512    17003      18865     15865     1 101    73900  10 398• (Suomi and Peltiheikki* Sub guns)
1.6. 9,00 L-35 pisto .........                  99            1593           1610     544         10            891         866     5613 (Lahti L-35 pistol)
1. 7. 20 p~tkiv /39 ............ 2                              410           496                                        1000      170      2078 (20mm antitank rifle ”the Elephant Gun”)

There is no mention of Sten manufacture during the war in any of the documents that I have seen, so I'm curious about the source of this info. I don't doubt you, but I do have some reservations about IWM or their source for this, since Finnish war archives have no info on Stens prior 1950.

Finland made them Post-WW2.  They didn't make them during the war as far as I know.

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I found the information about the Auxillary units during WWII interesting. What happened after the war? I have read some about the Stay Behind organisation here in Norway. Was there a Stay Behind network in the UK during the cold war?

I believe Dad's Army was the Home Guard during WWII. Stay Behind organisations were buildt up by the CIA all over continental Europe in the late 1940's, but I haven't heard of anything in the UK. BTW, when the CIA proposed a Stay Behind  network in Norway back in 1949, the Norwegians replied: "That's nice, but we allready have one." During WWII it took som much time and cost som many lives to build up a resistance, it was decided right after the war to have the organisation ready in case of Soviet occupation.