1920 Commercials

[Frank]

I had a neighbor that was in the Army, in Europe, during the final stages of World War II. He spoke fluent German, so was part of a squad that would go into a newly taken town. He spoke to the population in a sound truck, demanding that all firearms were to be turned in at the Town Hall by a specified time and date.


He and the others in the squad would then segregate the arms into the various categories (rifles, shotguns, handguns, etc.). The high ranking officers had first pick and so on down the chain of command. Those weapons that werenâ??t â??liberatedâ?�, were destroyed.


He was a sergeant, but had the first look at these weapons. And as such, salted away some of the stash and brought home at least one just gorgeous engraved Dreiling.


Now I am sort of reading between the lines, but I can imagine that this could easily be the source of quite a few so called â??bring backsâ?� and even could have had â??capture papersâ?� associated with them. Thus, private stock commercial Lugers that were turned in could have easily been part of this loot.