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GerColctor · 07-01-2006, 04:11 PM

Ironcross

Nice Luger, that seen some history.

I disagree with your openion that the Luger was the "soul of the third reich". Production of the Luger was stopped in late 1942 at Mauser and the final guns were sold to Portugal. The sale of the last Lugers to another country should show you how "valuable" they were to the Third Reich war machine.

Krieghoff continued to make them until the end, but their production was nothing compared to Mauser's.

The administrators of the Third Reich replaced the Luger with the P-38 because it was cheaper and quicker to manufacture.
Joe

07-01-2006, 04:11 PM	#17
GerColctor User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CT & FL Posts: 315 Thanks: 2 Thanked 48 Times in 31 Posts	Ironcross Nice Luger, that seen some history. I disagree with your openion that the Luger was the "soul of the third reich". Production of the Luger was stopped in late 1942 at Mauser and the final guns were sold to Portugal. The sale of the last Lugers to another country should show you how "valuable" they were to the Third Reich war machine. Krieghoff continued to make them until the end, but their production was nothing compared to Mauser's. The administrators of the Third Reich replaced the Luger with the P-38 because it was cheaper and quicker to manufacture. Joe __________________ It is better to have lived a day as a tiger, then a thousand years as a lamb.