Ciao!
If this can be of any help, I can quote recollection of a relative of mine here in Northern Italy, during WWII.
He says he clearly remembers seeing , as a boy of fourteen, in 1943-45 German Panzer troops wearing Pistol holsters in both Brown and Black leather he also remembers the black apnzer jacket with camo trousers combination..!
He already had a keen eye for details and still has an extremely good memory!
At the time he thought that officers wore brown holsters and other ranks wore black, but he says that probably this was not the case.
Incidentally, a colour plate in a book in the Osprey rseries (GERMAN PANZER CREWMAN WWII) shows a Brown holster for the P08.
Hope this helps.
Ciao!
Marco
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