Hi. Actually the FW 61 is not an Autogyro at all. It was the worlds first successful helicopter and took off vertically. The image shown earlier of the FW 61 is of Hanna Reitsch flying the FW61 indoors at the Berlin motorshow in 1938 in front of a crowd of thousands. You can't do that with an Autogyro. Many people are fooled by the engine on the front and the tiny engine cooling propellor. It provides no significant forward thrust at all and is only the same diameter as the engine itself. You can watch all of the German operational helicopters including the Doblhoff jet tip chopper on my youtube channel .
YouTube - Where Eagles Dare - The real German WW2 Helicopter
The Germans tested and operated their choppers in combat and it was the bombing of the jigs and factories plus shortages that prevented their wider adoption. Flettner tested and flew his own design single rotor chopper. He deemed the idea of a single main rotor and anti torque rotor ineffective and difficult to fly. The intermeshing flettner synchrotor principle is actually much easier to fly than a tail boom design and more reliable. It was possible to fly the highly aerobatic 282 completely hands off, and backwards, sideways etc. A houswife with no flying experience was able to master one after only 3 hours instruction. The Fa223 above was easy to fly and had fingertip control and precision. They were able to perform some feats not matched by American helicopters till the 1950s