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Vlim · 03-12-2003, 09:20 AM

Hi,

Some comments:
1. Disappearance of records is not strange. A contact in Holland reported that luger-related production info for magazines were destroyed as late as the early nineties. For everybody except collectors and historians, records are wasting valuable office and storage space and therefore they are destroyed regularly.

2. If there are japanese captured lugers, they certainly didn't capture them from the German army

I will find a Dutch KNIL luger an acceptable candidate for Japanese capture (and possible added engravings), because the Dutch were overrun in what is now Indonesia and Thailand in 1942.

3. The japanese had quite extensive contacts with the Germans but chose to produce their own version (the Nambu). 'presentation' or 'gift' or 'souvenir' lugers popping up with Japanese markings sound acceptable.

03-12-2003, 09:20 AM	#4
Vlim Moderator Lifetime LugerForum Patron Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Europe Posts: 5,053 Thanks: 1,036 Thanked 3,991 Times in 1,205 Posts	Hi, Some comments: 1. Disappearance of records is not strange. A contact in Holland reported that luger-related production info for magazines were destroyed as late as the early nineties. For everybody except collectors and historians, records are wasting valuable office and storage space and therefore they are destroyed regularly. 2. If there are japanese captured lugers, they certainly didn't capture them from the German army I will find a Dutch KNIL luger an acceptable candidate for Japanese capture (and possible added engravings), because the Dutch were overrun in what is now Indonesia and Thailand in 1942. 3. The japanese had quite extensive contacts with the Germans but chose to produce their own version (the Nambu). 'presentation' or 'gift' or 'souvenir' lugers popping up with Japanese markings sound acceptable.