Hi,
The Germans tried to evade the Treaty from the very beginning. This included using ammunition making machinery for other purposes, smuggling machinery across the borders to neighbouring countries, parking machines and tools at scrapyards and paying the scrap yards for storing them rather than destroying them, etc...
Many guns, including LP08s were stored in secret government arsenals in order to hide them from the IACC. One of the more illustrous guardians of these secret arsenals was Ernst Rohm.
The police started using commercial Parabellums in .30 luger until they could be converted to 9mm at a later time and date. Basically the police and reichswehr ordered guns in non-military calibers and bought the 9mm barrels separately.
So DWM got away with making .30 luger versions and limited runs of 9mm versions (short) for Reichswehr and Police and did some manufacturing for the export and commercial markets.
One of the famous German trials during those years was the socalled 'Bullerjahn affair' in 1925:
On december, 11th, 1925 Walter Bullerjahn was sentenced to 15 years in prison for treason. The trial was held in secret and no public was allowed to be present. Both the crime and the accuser remained unknown.
After years of inquiring, by the league of human rights and certain German politicians, it was reveiled that the accuser had been Paul von Gontard, then general director of DWM / BKIW. Gontard actively helped to create secret arsenals, in violation of the Versailles treaty. Gontard and Bullerjahn had a conflict which lead to Bullerjahn threatening to expose Gontard and the secret arsenals to the IACC. This was enough for a court to condemn him for treason. Bullerjahn was released after this became public knowledge.
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