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Unread 05-02-2012, 05:28 PM   #4
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Michael, I just stumbled across this thread. The pistol is clearly a Russian capture that was reissued to the East German police. The P.W. in the grip strap marking looks a lot like those on pistols of the Weimar-era Polizeiwehr of Württemberg (HWIS pp. 250-4).
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