Hi,
The marking on the front trigger guard is an Erfurt marking. The Erfurt arsenal proofed just about every part after inspection.
Since the plane crash took place in 1940 there wouldn't have been a real shortage of fire arms just yet. It is interesting to see a former military pistol go through the police, then probably to the forerunner of the luftwaffe, then the luftwaffe. Perhaps one of the two men had a career to match that of the pistol.
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