Mine is about 1000 digits higher than yours. They are great pistols.
I believe the reason Sauer did not begin pistol production after the war was due to Walthers influence with the American military. I think i got that from Jim Cate's volume 2. The Walthers were always better politicians than the Sauers. Sauer machinery was not shipped to the West.
Suhl fell into Soviet control after WWII. The larger firms that included Sauer, Merkel, Haenel, and Simson/BSW/ Gustlof Werke were united and known as the VEB or Volkseigene Betriebe. the East German government
Jim may explain this far better than me.
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