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max2cam · 11-30-2002, 11:28 AM

I doubt very much if there are many photos of high ranking German generals with "revolvers." The Germans were early converts to the self-loading pistol and didn't look back. I have read that after WWII the German police were given high quality American revolvers and prompty traded them off for cheap semi-auto pistols.

However, I have READ many English-written accounts of German soldiers (including officers) who were supposedly equipped with "revolvers," when the guns were certainly Lugers or P.38s.

This is the rather bizzare British usage (as in England) of calling all handguns (including semi-autos) revolvers. I have seen "revolver" used so many times in print so that you'd think half the German Wehrmacht were issued revolvers.

The British like to correct us "yanks" all the time, but this is one example where the Brits use a term that sounds totally foolish, makes no sense at all, and is historically inaccurate and misleading.

German officers did NOT carry revolvers. If Goering had one, it was a fluke....he was rather eccentric...maybe he wore it with his pink velvet goat herders' outfit at Carinhalle.

11-30-2002, 11:28 AM	#11
max2cam User Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: USA Posts: 97 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I doubt very much if there are many photos of high ranking German generals with "revolvers." The Germans were early converts to the self-loading pistol and didn't look back. I have read that after WWII the German police were given high quality American revolvers and prompty traded them off for cheap semi-auto pistols. However, I have READ many English-written accounts of German soldiers (including officers) who were supposedly equipped with "revolvers," when the guns were certainly Lugers or P.38s. This is the rather bizzare British usage (as in England) of calling all handguns (including semi-autos) revolvers. I have seen "revolver" used so many times in print so that you'd think half the German Wehrmacht were issued revolvers. The British like to correct us "yanks" all the time, but this is one example where the Brits use a term that sounds totally foolish, makes no sense at all, and is historically inaccurate and misleading. German officers did NOT carry revolvers. If Goering had one, it was a fluke....he was rather eccentric...maybe he wore it with his pink velvet goat herders' outfit at Carinhalle.