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Steve Lempitski · 10-17-2001, 03:23 PM

would one get a battlefield pick-up unless you were stupid or had a death wish. 99 percent of bring backs came out of capture piles at the end of the war - hence Lugers with improper clips, K98's with mis-matched bolts. More than one frontline European Vet has told me the unwritten rule: captured by the Germans, you're a prisoner - captured with any German equipment in your posession what so ever, and you were killed with it on the spot.

10-17-2001, 03:23 PM	#3
Steve Lempitski User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Old Cape Cod Posts: 238 Thanks: 1 Thanked 7 Times in 7 Posts	Only in the movies.. would one get a battlefield pick-up unless you were stupid or had a death wish. 99 percent of bring backs came out of capture piles at the end of the war - hence Lugers with improper clips, K98's with mis-matched bolts. More than one frontline European Vet has told me the unwritten rule: captured by the Germans, you're a prisoner - captured with any German equipment in your posession what so ever, and you were killed with it on the spot.