Like most war stories, take them with a grain of salt. That late in the war, no one would have been that anal about attention to details in terms of proper stamps and marks nor issue dates. In theory, a WW1 pistol should also have a 1920 property mark that yours lacks if it was still German. As for the SS officer stuff, that type of story generally sounds a lot better than ones such as “there was a pile of them outside a surrendered weapons depot that soldiers could take if they wished” “I won it in a poker tournament on the ship home.” Or “I was just scrounging the battlefield aftermath and happened to be the first guy to discover an enemy corpse with a Luger “
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