The marking "byf" was the manufacturer's code used by Mauser in 1941 and 1942. Your pistol was made by Mauser. The East German reds continued to use Lugers up into the 1960s. The commies would cannibalize Lugers in order to get one to function properly, consequently one finds these "VOPO" Lugers with renumbered parts. The VOPO were the Volks Polizei or peoples' police. The VOPO were best remembered for shooting/murdering the "people" who tried to escape the communist paradise of East Germany.
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