Re: Taken from a German officer
If the German officers bought their own side arms and they wished to carry the Luger would it not then be a commercial model vs. a military contact? All these guns taken off the dead or captured officers are military models. Now some field officer may have picked one up from a wounded or dead member of his command, but all of these captured Lugers claim to hase been in the hands of officers. How many period pictures show German officers, especially higher ranking ones carring Lugers?
Lugers were "tools" issued to those who needed to keep their hands free for other duties; radio operators, machine gun crews, motorcycle drivers, paratroopers [who carried empty rifles when jumping and needed something if they had to immediatly defend themselves when they landed] and other similar troops.
Why is it so important to have been taken from an officer?
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