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mrerick · 04-10-2012, 07:18 PM

They look good to me too, and in superb condition.

Alone, the grips are worth 2 to 3 times what he paid for the entire rig.

Did your father stay in the USA and settle here after the war? I have heard several stories of this happening.

One of my own relatives (from Bavaria) moved to the USA in the 1920s, and had a business in metalworking in Brooklyn up until the middle of WW-II. There was so much negative prejudice about people with German background and accents that the authorities in NYC harassed him and eventually put him out of business by 1945. He moved upstate NY and bought a farm...

If your father stayed in the US after the war, he must have dealt with some of this. Yet (from other relatives that were in Munich during and after WW-II) I know that living conditions were impossible in Germany. My cousin survived on Care packages sent by a church in Michigan to her family in Munich.

Marc

04-10-2012, 07:18 PM	#8
mrerick Super Moderator - Patron LugerForum Life Patron Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Eastern North Carolina, USA Posts: 3,920 Thanks: 1,377 Thanked 3,135 Times in 1,518 Posts	They look good to me too, and in superb condition. Alone, the grips are worth 2 to 3 times what he paid for the entire rig. Did your father stay in the USA and settle here after the war? I have heard several stories of this happening. One of my own relatives (from Bavaria) moved to the USA in the 1920s, and had a business in metalworking in Brooklyn up until the middle of WW-II. There was so much negative prejudice about people with German background and accents that the authorities in NYC harassed him and eventually put him out of business by 1945. He moved upstate NY and bought a farm... If your father stayed in the US after the war, he must have dealt with some of this. Yet (from other relatives that were in Munich during and after WW-II) I know that living conditions were impossible in Germany. My cousin survived on Care packages sent by a church in Michigan to her family in Munich. Marc __________________ Igitur si vis pacem, para bellum - - Therefore if you want peace, prepare for war.